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dayexi gandarela sosa darovy acevedo sprint canoe lightblue caibarién , cuba canoeing 4 july 1986 '' la gallega '' dayexi gandarela
 dayexi gandarela
dayexi gandarela

dayexi gandarela sosa -lrb- born july 4 , 1986 in caibarién -rrb- is a cuban sprint canoeist .
she edged out the argentine pair -lrb- led by alexandra keresztesi -rrb- by two thirds of a second -lrb- 0.67 -rrb- 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 -lrb- ivana kmeťová and martina kohlová -rrb- , posting their time of 1:50.124 .
