Full name Dayexi Gandarela Sosa Event(s) Sprint canoe Nickname(s) La Gallega Coached by Darovy Acevedo | Nationality Cuba Name Dayexi Gandarela Sport Canoeing Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born 4 July 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-07-04 ) Caibarien, Cuba | ||
Dayexi Gandarela Sosa (born July 4, 1986 in Caibarién) 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.
Gandarela represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Gandarela and her partner Yulitza Meneses 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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