Ibrahim Rojas

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Blanco.
Ibrahim Rojas
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.

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