Nationality Guatemala Event(s) Race walking Sport Athletics | Weight 56 kg (123 lb) Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 ⁄2 in) Name Evelyn Nunez | |
Full name Evelyn Rosmeri Nunez Fuentes Born 9 April 1971 (age 53) ( 1971-04-09 ) Guatemala City, Guatemala | ||
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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