Imaday Núñez

Imaday Núñez
Personal information
Full name Imaday Núñez González
Nationality  Cuba
Born 18 January 1983
Havana, Cuba
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke

Imaday Núñez González (born January 18, 1983 in Havana) is a retired Cuban swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She won a total of three medals (gold, silver, and bronze) in the breaststroke (both 100 and 200 m) and medley relay at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games in Maracaibo, Venezuela.[2][3]

Nunez became one of Cuba's first ever female swimmers to compete at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing thirty-first in the 100 m breaststroke (1:13.91) and thirty-fourth in the 200 m breaststroke (2:41.97).[4][5]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Nunez competed again in the same programs as her first stint. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 1:13.25 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:34.10 (200 m breaststroke) from the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[6][7][8] In the 100 m breaststroke, Nunez challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including 13-year-old Yip Tsz Wa of Hong Kong. She blasted a Cuban record of 1:12.14 to earn a second spot and twenty-seventh overall behind winner Inna Kapishina of Belarus by a 1.48-second margin.[9][10] In her second event, 200 m breaststroke, Nunez placed twenty-eighth on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in the same heat as her first, she rounded out a field of six swimmers to last place by three tenths of a second (0.30) behind Mexico's Adriana Marmolejo, outside her entry time of 2:36.40.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "Imaday Núñez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Nadadores cubanos se entrenan en Colombia" [Cuban swimmers trained in Colombia] (in Spanish). Cuba Hora. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Llorca, Amalia (13 April 1998). "Velada de récords en los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe" [An evening of records at the Central American and Caribbean Games] (in Spanish). El Universal (Caracas). Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 258. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 266. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "Imaday determined to win a medal" (in Spanish). JIT Online. 12 August 2003. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  9. ↑ "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  10. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Women’s 100 Breaststroke Prelims: Aussies Hanson and Jones Qualify One-Two". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "Women's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  12. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women’s 200 Breaststroke Day 5 Prelims: Leisel Jones Leads the Way Again in 2:26.02". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2013.