Yulitza Meneses
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Full name | Yulitza Meneses Prieto | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Nueva Gerona, Cuba |
9 November 1985 |||||||||||||||
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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
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- 1985 births
- Cuban canoeists
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Cuba
- Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- People from Isla de la Juventud
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
- Female canoeists
- North American canoeist stubs
- Cuban sportspeople stubs