Fernando Dayan Jorge Enriquez (born 3 December 1998) is a Cuban

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. He took up canoeing in late 2015 and won the 2016 Pan American Championships with Serguey Torres in the C-2 1000 m event . They finished sixth at the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

. He also competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and won a gold medal in the Men's C-2 1000 metres event. In 2022, Jorge defected from Cuba while he was traveling in Mexico.

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* 1998 births Living people Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Cuba Cuban male canoeists ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Sportspeople from Cienfuegos Pan American Games medalists in canoeing Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Canoeists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in canoeing Olympic gold medalists for Cuba 21st-century Cuban people {{Cuba-athletics-bio-stub