Dayexi Gandarela
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Full name | Dayexi Gandarela Sosa | |||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | La Gallega[1] | |||||||||||||||
Nationality | Cuba | |||||||||||||||
Born |
Caibarién, Cuba | 4 July 1986|||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||
Coached by | Darovy Acevedo[1] | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dayexi Gandarela Sosa (born July 4, 1986 in Caibarién) is a Cuban sprint canoeist.[1][2] She edged out the Argentine pair (led by Alexandra Keresztesi) by two thirds of a second (0.67) for the gold medal in the women's K-2 500 metres at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.[3][4]
Gandarela represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Gandarela and her partner Yulitza Meneses paddled to a sixth-place finish and fourteenth overall in the B-final by approximately three seconds behind the Slovakian pair (Ivana Kmeťová and Martina Kohlová), posting their time of 1:50.124.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "Dayexi Gandarela". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Dayexi Gandarela". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ Guevara, Yuri (31 October 2011). "Cuban Gold in Rowing at Pan American Games". Juventud Rebelde. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Cuba gana oro y Argentina plata en K2 500m de canotaje femenino" [Cuba and Argentina wins gold and silver in women's canoeing] (in Spanish). Terra Deportes. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
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