Ibrahim Rojas

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Olympic medal record
Men's canoeing
Silver 2000 Sydney C-2 1000 m
Silver 2004 Athens C-2 500 m

Ibrahim Rojas Blanco (born October 10, 1975 in Santa Cruz del Sur, Camagüey) is a retired Cuban flatwater canoer.

In 2001 he and partner Leobaldo Pereira won Cuba's first-ever world championship gold medal. In all Rojas won three world titles and was Pan-American champion four times. He also won silver medals at both the Sydney and Athens Olympics.

All his medals came in the two-man (C2) Canadian canoe discipline, first with Pereira and later with Ledis Balceiro.

[edit] World Championship Gold Medals

  • C2 200m 2002 Seville, Spain 37.027
  • C2 500m 2002 Seville, Spain 1:43.467
  • C2 500m 2001 Poznań, Poland 1:44.351
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