Darisleydis Amador

Darisleydis Amador
Personal information
Full name Darisleydis Amador Rodríguez
Nationality  Cuba
Born (1988-01-01) 1 January 1988
Matanzas, Cuba
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Sprint canoe
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  Cuba
Pan American Games
2011 Guadalajara K-1 200 m
2011 Guadalajara K-4 500 m

Darisleydis Amador Rodríguez (born January 1, 1988 in Matanzas) is a Cuban sprint canoeist.[1][2] She won a silver medal in the women's K-1 200 metres at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico by thirty-seven thousandths of a second (0.037) behind winner Carrie Johnson of the United States, with a time of 41.840 seconds.[3][4]

Amador represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events. For her first event, the women's K-1 500 metres, Amador paddled to a seventh-place finish in the semi-final rounds, but fell short in her bid for the final by approximately four seconds behind Canada's Émilie Fournel, with a time of 1:58.762.[5] In the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, Amador finished fourth and twelfth overall in the B-final by twenty-five thousandths of a second (0.025) behind Serbia's Nikolina Moldovan, attaining her best Olympic time of 45.099 seconds.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Darisleydis Amador". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Darisleydis Amador". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Sprint National Team Vies for Olympic Slots, Pan American Medals". Team USA. 24 October 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "PanAm: Cuba y Ecuador conquistan oros en el canotaje" [PanAm: Cuba and Ecuador win golds in canoeing] (in Spanish). Fox Latin America. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m Semifinal 1". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.


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