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Evelyn Núñez | |
Fullname: | Evelyn Rosmeri Núñez Fuentes |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1971 |
Birth Place: | Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Weight: | 560NaN0 |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Race walking |
Pb: | 10 km walk: 46:19.48 (2006) 20 km walk: 1:35:13 (2005) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Evelyn Rosmeri Núñez Fuentes (born April 9, 1971 in Guatemala City) is a female Guatemalan race walker.[1] In 2006, she set a personal best time of 46:19.48 by winning the silver medal at the Ibero-American Championships in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She is also the mother of Jamy Franco, who ended the nation's 56-year drought by taking the race walk title at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.[2]
At age thirty-seven, Núñez made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 20 km race walk. She finished and completed the race in forty-third place by three minutes behind Latvia's Jolanta Dukure, with the slowest time of 1:44:13.[3] [4]