Name Ibrahim Rojas | Role Olympic athlete | |
2000 Sydney Olympic Canoeing Men's C-2 1000 m Final HD (16:9)
Ibrahim Rojas Blanco (born October 10, 1975 in Santa Cruz del Sur, Camaguey) is a Cuban sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s.
In 2001 he and partner Leobaldo Pereira won Cuba's first-ever world championship gold medal. In all Rojas won three world titles and was Pan American champion four times. He also won silver medals at both the Sydney and Athens Olympics.
All his medals came in the two-man (C-2) Canadian canoe discipline, first with Pereira and later with Ledis Balceiro. Rojas would win eight world championship medals in his career.
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