Yulitza Meneses
Cuban canoeist (born 1985)
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Yulitza Meneses Prieto (born November 9, 1985, in Nueva Gerona) is a Cuban sprint canoeist.[1][2]
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| Full name | Yulitza Meneses Prieto | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 November 1985 Nueva Gerona, Cuba | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
