Career
In 2006, she set a personal best time of 46:19.48 by winning the silver medal at the Ibero-American Championships in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She is also the mother of Jamy Franco, who ended the nation"s 56-year drought by taking the race walk title at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. At age thirty-seven, Núñez made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women"s 20 km race walk.
She finished and completed the race in forty-third place by three minutes behind Latvia"s Jolanta Dukure, with the slowest time of 1:44:13.
