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Evelyn Núñez

Evelyn Núñez
Personal information
Full name Evelyn Rosmeri Núñez Fuentes
Nationality  Guatemala
Born (1971-04-09) 9 April 1971 (age 46)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 12 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Race walking
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 10 km walk: 46:19.48 (2006)
20 km walk: 1:35:13 (2005)

Evelyn Rosmeri Núñez Fuentes (born April 9, 1971 in Guatemala City) is a female Guatemalan race walker. In 2006, she set a personal best time of 46:19.48 by winning the silver medal at the Ibero-American Championships in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She is also the mother of Jamy Franco, who ended the nation's 56-year drought by taking the race walk title at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

At age thirty-seven, Núñez made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 20 km race walk. She finished and completed the race in forty-third place by three minutes behind Latvia's Jolanta Dukure, with the slowest time of 1:44:13.


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