Herminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m).

Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975. K-2 1000 m: 1982, K-2 10000 m: 1979, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977, 1978).

Herminio Menéndez

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1953 births

Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Living people

Olympic canoeists for Spain

Olympic silver medalists for Spain

Olympic bronze medalists for Spain

Spanish male canoeists

Olympic medalists in canoeing

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak

Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga sportsmen

Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics

20th-century Spanish people

Herminio Menéndez