Ibrahim Rojas
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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Blanco.
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's canoe sprint | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Silver | 2000 Sydney | C-2 1000 m |
| Silver | 2004 Athens | C-2 500 m |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold | 2001 Poznań | C-2 500 m |
| Gold | 2002 Seville | C-2 200 m |
| Gold | 2002 Seville | C-2 500 m |
| Silver | 1999 Milan | C-2 1000 m |
| Silver | 2002 Seville | C-2 1000 m |
| Bronze | 2001 Poznań | C-2 200 m |
| Bronze | 2001 Poznań | C-2 1000 m |
| Bronze | 2003 Gainesville | C-2 500 m |
| Pan American Games | ||
| Gold | 2003 Santo Domingo | C-2 500 m |
| Gold | 2003 Santo Domingo | C-2 1000 m |
Ibrahim Rojas Blanco (born October 10, 1975 in Santa Cruz del Sur, Camagüey) is a Cuban sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s.
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 (C-2) Canadian canoe discipline, first with Pereira and later with Ledis Balceiro. Rojas would win eight world championship medals in his career.
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Sports-reference.com profile
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