Yoennis Hernández

Yoennis Hernández Arruez (born 1 February 1978) is a Cuban former rower who competed at three Summer Olympics.

Yoennis Hernández

Personal information
Birth name	Yoennis Hernández Arruez
Nationality	Cuban
Born	(1978-02-01) 1 February 1978 (age 47) Guantánamo
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	93 kg (205 lb)
Sport
Country	Cuba
Sport	Rowing
Club	Guantánamo CR
Medal record Men's rowing Pan American Games 2003 Santo Domingo Single sculls 2003 Santo Domingo Double sculls 2003 Santo Domingo Quadruple sculls 2007 Rio de Janeiro Double sculls 2007 Rio de Janeiro Quadruple sculls 2011 Guadalajara Double sculls 2011 Guadalajara Quadruple sculls 2007 Rio de Janeiro Single sculls 1999 Winnipeg Single sculls 2003 Santo Domingo Eights

Biography

Born in Guantánamo, Hernández had a long career in rowing for Cuba. He represented Cuba at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, as a double sculls and quadruple sculls rower.^[1] In all of his Olympic events he was able to make it to the B Final. He won a total of ten Pan American Games medals during his career. At every games from 1999 to 2011 he won at least one medal, five of them golds.^[2] He was also a regular competitor at the World Rowing Championships, with his best placing coming at Lucerne in 2001, when he and Yosbel Martínez were fourth in the doubles sculls^[3]