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Yulitza Meneses

Yulitza Meneses
Personal information
Full name Yulitza Meneses Prieto
Nationality  Cuba
Born (1985-11-09) 9 November 1985 (age 31)
Nueva Gerona, Cuba
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Sprint canoe

Yulitza Meneses Prieto (born November 9, 1985 in Nueva Gerona) is a Cuban sprint canoeist.

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.



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