Dayexi Gandarela

Dayexi Gandarela Sosa is a Cuban sprint canoeist. She edged out the Argentine pair by two thirds of a second 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, posting their time of 1:50.124.