Nancy McLeón (born May 1, 1971) is a retired female

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete from

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who competed in the

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events during her career. She won the gold medal in the women's

4 × 400 metres relay The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, th ...

at the

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, alongside teammates

Idalmis Bonne Idalmis Bonne Rousseaux (; born February 2, 1971) is a retired female Sprint (running), sprinter from Cuba. Career She claimed a gold medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Bonne, who was born in Guantánamo, compet ...

, Surella Morales and

Julia Duporty Esther Julia "Daysi" Duporty Torres (born February 9, 1971 in Guantánamo) is a retired sprinter from Cuba, who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. She set her personal best (50.61) in the women's 400 metres event o ...

International competitions

References

* 1971 births Living people Cuban female sprinters Olympic athletes for Cuba Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Cuba Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Universiade silver medalists for Cuba Universiade bronze medalists for Cuba Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Olympic female sprinters 20th-century Cuban women {{Cuba-athletics-bio-stub