Ibrahim Rojas Blanco (born October 10, 1975) is a

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who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. In

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he and partner

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won Cuba's first-ever

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gold medal. In all Rojas won three world titles and was Pan American champion four times. He also won silver medals at both the

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and Athens Olympics. All his medals came in the two-man (C-2)

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discipline, first with Pereira and later with Ledis Balceiro. Rojas would win eight world championship medals in his career.

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