Yaima Ortiz Charro (born 9 November 1981, in Havana) is a retired Cuban volleyball player and model who competed in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.

Ortiz made altitude training in March 2001 with the National Team in Riobamba, Ecuador in order to be in shape for the upcoming tournaments.

[7] After the Cuban league, she joined the national team under the guidance of coaches Eugenio George, Luis Felipe Calderón and Jorge Garbey, set to a four-country warmup tour before the Pan American Cup.

[20][21] Ortiz played the 2003 FIVB World Cup[22] where her team qualified by winning the 2003 NORCECA Continental Championship silver medal.

[27] She played under the guidance of the veteran coach Nikolay Karpol with the Russian club Dinamo Moscow Oblast for the 2004/05 season with fellow Cuban Marta Sánchez, where she said she felt like home and became very interested in the country.

[31] Later in August, she played in Santiago, Dominican Republic and she helped Cuba to win their qualification tournament for the 2006 FIVB World Championship.

[35] She then headed to San Juan, Puerto Rico to participate in the 2006 Pan-American Cup,[36] where they won the silver medal after falling 1-3 to Brazil,[37][38] and the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games.

[45] She was still in the libero position for the 2007 NORCECA Championship,[46] because she was still having a recovering knee[47] and her team won the tournament by defeating 3-2 to the United States in the golden medal match.

[52] She was included in the 2008 Pan-American Cup squad[53] that ranked 11th from 12 participants and later won the silver medal in the 2008 FIVB World Grand Prix.

[61] She played the second round of the 2010/11 GM Capital Challenge Cup, with Omichka winning in December the home match to the Azerbaijani club Lokomotiv Baku, 3-2.

[57][68] However, due to low performance, the club's administration decided to hire Angelina Grün in her place to stay on court along with Eva Yaneva because of the local league restrictions.

[89][90] She cited family reasons for making a pause in her career in July 2013,[91] but nonetheless, she supported her former teammates in the Sarıyer's opening ceremony of the 2013-2014 season.

[92] She unsuccessfully tried a return in October, with Sarıyer releasing the Ukrainian Mariia Voitenko, club's previous signing, to make room for her.

[59] She tried to return for the 2014/15 season with Sarıyer, signing[95] after having spent one year out,[96] and the medical check was approved,[97] but the Brazilian Ana Paula Lopes Ferreira was transferred in her place when she suffered from injuries to her knee cartilage.

[102][103] The American Hyperrealism sculptor and artist Carole Feuerman made a sculpture of Ortiz named Yaima and the Ball that debuted in December 2014.

[105] In December 2016 she married the Turkish yacht designer Rizá Tansu in Cuba,[106][107][108] where the Cuban band Orishas recorded their music video "Sastre de tu amor".