Rebekah colberg biography

Puerto Rican basketball player

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Rebekah colberg biography

Rebekah Colberg Cabrera (December 25, 1918 – July 8, 1985),^{[note 1]} was a Puerto Rican athlete, who was known as "The Mother of Women's Sports in Puerto Rico".^[1] Colberg participated in various athletic competitions in the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games celebrated in Panama where she won the gold medals in Discus and Javelin throw.

Early years

Rebekah Colberg Cabrera was born on December 25, 1918, in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico to Vicente Lupercio Colberg Pabón, a pharmacy technician, and María Providencia Cabrera Ramírez de Arellano, a housewife.

Her great-great-grandmother was the sister of the early-19th century Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresí Ramírez de Arellano.^[2] Colberg was born two months premature when her mother was just seven months pregnant.

Colberg, whose birth weight was only four pounds during birth, would later break sports barriers for Puerto Rican women. Ev