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Full name | Evelyn Rosmeri Núñez Fuentes | ||||||||||||
Nationality | Guatemala | ||||||||||||
Born |
Guatemala City, Guatemala |
9 April 1971 ||||||||||||
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 1⁄2 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) |
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Medal record
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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.