Fernando Jorge (canoeist)
Cuban canoeist
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Full name | Fernando Dayan Jorge Enriquez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1998-12-03) 3 December 1998 (age 25) Cienfuegos, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Equipo Nacional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fernando Dayan Jorge Enriquez (born 3 December 1998) is a Cuban sprint canoeist. He took up canoeing in late 2015 and won the 2016 Pan American Championships with Serguey Torres in the C-2 1000 m event . They finished sixth at the 2016 Olympics.[1][2] He also competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and won a gold medal in the Men's C-2 1000 metres event.[3]
In 2022, Jorge defected from Cuba while he was traveling in Mexico.[4] He will be competing as a refugee athlete representing the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
References
- ^ Fernando Dayan Jorge Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ Fernando Dayan Jorge Archived 20 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
- ^ "Double Canoe – 1000m Men – Final Results" (PDF). olympics.com. TOCOG. 3 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ Hernandez, Miguel (7 March 2022). "Cuban Olympic canoe champion escapes in Mexico". Around the Rings. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
External links
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- Fernando Jorge at the International Canoe Federation
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Olympic Canoeing Champions in Men's C-2 1000 m
- 1936:
Vladimír Syrovátka & Jan Brzák-Felix (TCH)
- 1948:
Jan Brzák-Felix & Bohumil Kudrna (TCH)
- 1952:
Bent Peder Rasch & Finn Haunstoft (DEN)
- 1956:
Dumitru Alexe & Simion Ismailciuc (ROU)
- 1960:
Leonid Geishtor & Sergei Makarenko (URS)
- 1964:
Andrey Khimich & Stepan Oshchepkov (URS)
- 1968:
Ivan Patzaichin & Serghei Covaliov (ROU)
- 1972:
Vladas Česiūnas & Yuri Lobanov (URS)
- 1976:
Serhiy Petrenko & Aleksandr Vinogradov (URS)
- 1980:
Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov (ROU)
- 1984:
Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov (ROU)
- 1988:
Viktor Reneysky & Nicolae Juravschi (URS)
- 1992:
Ulrich Papke & Ingo Spelly (GER)
- 1996:
Gunar Kirchbach & Andreas Dittmer (GER)
- 2000:
Mitică Pricop & Florin Popescu (ROU)
- 2004:
Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)
- 2008:
Andrei Bahdanovich & Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (BLR)
- 2012:
Peter Kretschmer & Kurt Kuschela (GER)
- 2016:
Sebastian Brendel & Jan Vandrey (GER)
- 2020:
Serguey Torres & Fernando Jorge (CUB)
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