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| Full name | Yulitza Meneses Prieto | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 November 1985 Nueva Gerona, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||
| 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]
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]
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