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| Full name | Yulitza Meneses Prieto | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1985-11-09) 9 November 1985 (age 39) Nueva Gerona, Cuba | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||||
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Yulitza Meneses Prieto (born November 9, 1985, in Nueva Gerona) is a Cuban sprint canoeist.
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.
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.
References
- "Yulitza Meneses". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yulitza Meneses". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- Guevara, Yuri (31 October 2011). "Cuban Gold in Rowing at Pan American Games". Juventud Rebelde. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. 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. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- "Women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final B". London 2012. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
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