# Fernando Dayán Jorge  Enríquez

**Date of birth:** December 3, 1998

**Categories:** Sports

Fernando Dayán is a Cuban athlete who competes in the sport of canoeing, also called kayaking or Kayak in the calm waters modality. Olympic champion. Multi-medalist in world championships.

He participated in two Summer Olympic Games in 2016 and 2020, obtaining a gold medal in Tokyo 2020 in the C2 1000 m event (alongside Serguey Torres Madrigal). At the 2019 Pan American Games he won two medals.​

He won six medals at the World Canoeing Championship between 2017 and 2021.

In March 2022 he abandoned the Cuban delegation of his specialty in Mexico City.

Olympic Games
2020 	Tokyo (Japan) 	Gold medal 	C2 1000 m

World Championship

2017 Račice (Czech Republic) Silver medal C2 1000 m
2018 Montemor-o-Velho (Portugal) Silver medal C1 5000 m
2018 Montemor-o-Velho (Portugal) Silver medal C2 1000 m
2019 Szeged (Hungary) Silver medal C2 1000 m
2019 Szeged (Hungary) Bronze medal C1 5000 m
2021 Copenhagen (Denmark) Bronze medal C2 1000 m

Pan American Games

2019 Lima (Peru) Gold medal C2 1000 m
2019 Lima (Peru) Silver medal C1 1000 m