Dayexi Gandarela Sosa (born July 4, 1986, in Caibarién) is a Cuban sprint canoeist.

[1][2] She edged out the Argentine pair (led by Alexandra Keresztesi) by two thirds of a second (0.67) for the gold medal in the women's K-2 500 metres at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

[3][4] Gandarela represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres.

Gandarela and her partner Yulitza Meneses paddled to a sixth-place finish and fourteenth overall in the B-final by approximately three seconds behind the Slovakian pair (Ivana Kmeťová and Martina Kohlová), posting their time of 1:50.124.

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