Herminio Menéndez

Herminio Menéndez Rodríguez^[a] (born 20 December 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m).

Herminio Menéndez

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	K-4 1000 m
	1980 Moscow	K-2 500 m
	1980 Moscow	K-2 1000 m
World Championships
	1975 Belgrade	K-4 1000 m
	1978 Belgrade	K-4 500 m
	1975 Belgrade	K-1 4 x 500 m
	1977 Sofia	K-4 500 m
	1977 Sofia	K-4 1000 m
	1978 Belgrade	K-4 1000 m
	1979 Duisburg	K-2 10000 m
	1982 Belgrade	K-2 1000 m

Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975. K-2 1000 m: 1982, K-2 10000 m: 1979, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977, 1978).

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Menéndez and the second or maternal family name is Rodríguez.

References

• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: 13 January 2016.
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: 11 March 2016.
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Herminio Menéndez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009.

External links

• Herminio Menéndez at Olympedia
• Herminio Menendez Rodriguez at Olympics.com
• Herminio Menéndez Rodríguez at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) (archived)