Yulitza Meneses
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| Full name | Yulitza Meneses Prieto | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Cuba | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
9 November 1985 Nueva Gerona, Cuba | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yulitza Meneses Prieto (born November 9, 1985 in Nueva Gerona) is a Cuban sprint canoeist.[1][2]
Biography and career
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]
Meneses represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Meneses and her partner Dayexi Gandarela 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
- ↑ "Yulitza Meneses". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Yulitza Meneses". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ Guevara, Yuri (31 October 2011). "Cuban Gold in Rowing at Pan American Games". Juventud Rebelde. Retrieved 19 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 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
External links
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