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Ibrahim Rojas

Cuban canoeistIn this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Blanco.

Ibrahim Rojas Blanco (born October 10, 1975 in Santa Cruz del Sur, Camagüey) is a Cuban sprint canoeist 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 *les 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.

References

  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: fla*er (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of fla*er (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "Ibrahim Rojas". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2011-08-26.


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