Yulitza Meneses

Yulitza Meneses Prieto is a Cuban sprint canoeist.

Biography and career

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.
Meneses represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Meneses and her partner Dayexi Gandarela 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.