Yoanka González Pérez (born 9 January 1976 in Villa Clara) is a

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...

, competing in both

road cycling Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling in which cyclists ride on paved roadways. It includes recreational, racing, commuting, and utility cycling. As users of the road, road cyclists are generally expected to obey the same laws a ...

and

track cycling Track cycling is a Cycle sport, bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its i ...

. She was the 2004 scratch cycling world champion. She is also married to cyclist Pedro Pablo Pérez.

Major results

;1995 :2nd Pursuit,

Pan American Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...

(Mar del Plata, Argentina) ;1999 :1st Road Race, National Championship, Cuba :2nd Road Race,

(Winnipeg, Canada) :2nd Road Race, B World Championship (Montevideo, Uruguay) ;2001 :1st Road Race, National Championship, Cuba :1st

Individual Time Trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also trac ...

, National Championship, Cuba ;2003 :1st Road Race,

2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games, officially the XIV Pan American Games () and commonly known as Santo Domingo 2003, were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the Games was made in the mid-1990 ...

(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) ;2004 :3rd

Points race A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men from 1984 to 2008 and for women from 1996 to 2008. Since 2012, the points race has been one of the omniu ...

, Moscow, Russia :3rd

, Pan American Championships ;2005 :2nd Points race, Moscow, Russia :1st

Scratch Race A scratch race is a track cycling race in which all riders start together and the objective is simply to be first over the finish line after a certain number of laps. UCI regulations specify that a scratch race should be held over 15 km for ...

, Moscow, Russia ;2006 :2nd Road Race, National Championship, Cuba :1st Road Race, Central American and Caribbean Sports Games (Cartagena, Colombia) :2nd Points race, Moscow, Russia :3rd

, Moscow, Russia ;2007 :2nd Points race, Los Angeles, United States of America :1st Points race, Manchester, Great Britain :3rd Track Points race, Pan American Championships :2nd Points race, Beijing, China :3rd Team Pursuit, Beijing, China ;2008 :2nd Silver medal olympic

Points race,

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

(Beijing) ;2014 :2nd Team Pursuit,

Pan American Track Championships The Pan American Track Championships are the continental cycling championships for track cycling held annually for member nations of the Pan American Cycling Confederation. Riders competing in the Pan American Cycling Championships are selected ...

(with Yudelmis Dominguez Masague, Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso and Marlies Mejias Garcia) :Copa Cuba de Pista (Havana, Cuba) ::2nd Points Race ::3rd Omnium :1st

National Championship, Cuba

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* * * * * * 1976 births Living people Cuban female cyclists Cuban track cyclists UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Olympic cyclists for Cuba Olympic silver medalists in cycling Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Pan American Games gold medalists in cycling Pan American Games silver medalists in cycling Pan American Games bronze medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 1995 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2003 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2007 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in cycling Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Cuba Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Cuba Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Sportspeople from Villa Clara Province 20th-century Cuban sportswomen 21st-century Cuban sportswomen {{Cuba-Olympic-medalist-stub