Darisleydis Amador
Canoe Sprint, Olympic athlete
1988 –
Who is Darisleydis Amador?
Darisleydis Amador Rodríguez is a Cuban sprint canoeist. She won a silver medal in the women's K-1 200 metres at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico by thirty-seven thousandths of a second behind winner Carrie Johnson of the United States, with a time of 41.840 seconds.
Amador represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in two individual sprint kayak events. For her first event, the women's K-1 500 metres, Amador paddled to a seventh-place finish in the semi-final rounds, but fell short in her bid for the final by approximately four seconds behind Canada's Émilie Fournel, with a time of 1:58.762. In the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, Amador finished fourth and twelfth overall in the B-final by twenty-five thousandths of a second behind Serbia's Nikolina Moldovan, attaining her best Olympic time of 45.099 seconds.
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