Daimà PernÃa
Daimi Pernía (* December 27, 1976 in La Palma, Pinar del Río Province) is a former Cuban hurdler.
Daimi Pernía won the 1999 gold in the 400 - meter hurdles in 52.89 seconds at the World Athletics Championships. Your ahead of the runner Nezha Bidouane was a hundredth of a second. Daimi Pernía improved for the seventh time in two years the Cuban national record.
You could in the following years not improve this time. In the 2000 Olympics, she finished fourth in 53.68 seconds. The following year she won at the 2001 World Championships in 54.51 seconds bronze.
The end of 2007, she ended her career after she had remained in her last season with 56.89 seconds four seconds over their personal best.
At a height of 1.73 m her competition weight was 61 kg.