Driulis González Morales (born 21 September 1973 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban judoka who has won four Olympic medals, including a gold medal in 1996. She carried the flag for her native country at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Along with Australia's Mária Pekli and Japan's Ryoko Tamura-Tani, Driulis is the first female judoka to compete at five Olympics. The only other judokas to compete at five Olympics are Belgian Robert Van de Walle and Puerto Rican judoka-bobsledder Jorge Bonnet.
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- Driulis González at the International Judo Federation
- Driulis González at JudoInside.com
- Driulis González at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Driulis González at Olympics.com
- Driulis González at Olympedia
- Driulis González at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Driulis González at The-Sports.org
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