Guantanamo has obtained four medals in World Championships in 2015, tough competition to accessing the best athletes in the world and where graduating is all a feat.
Guantanamo has obtained four medals in World Championships in 2015, tough competition to accessing the best athletes in the world and where graduating is all a feat.
Arlen Lopez Cardona, of 22, who lives in the Sur district of the provincial capital of Guantánamo, had the honor of becoming a gold medalist at the World Boxing Championships in Doha, Qatar.
The young boxer of 75 kg got the ticket to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016, also holds the titles as champion of the Central American and Caribbean Games and Pan American Games.
With the results of Pan American Games and World championship, as well as the achievements with the Cuba’s Wranglers at the World Boxing Series, he is a strong candidate to be elected as the best athlete of Guantanamo this year.
The other two gold medals of the easternmost province of Cuba in World Championships were obtained by the visually impaired Leinier Savón Pineda, who won the 100 and 200 meter T12 categories in the Championship of Qatar.
Cuba also won medals with the Cruise Erislandy Savon Cotilla, whose string of victories was stopped in the World Cup in Qatar, where he achieved silver after being defeated by Russian Evgeny Tischenko.
Guantanamo had this year a strong candidate for a medal and even to rank to the top of the podium, the wrestler Yowlys Bonne, of 57 kg, but finished in sixteenth place.
Of Guantanamo representatives at the world events in 2015, Angel Fournier finished sixth in the single scull rowing at the World Championships in Aiguebelette, France, attended by 498 athletes from 75 countries.
Yorgelis Rodriguez, also from Guantanamo finished 21st in the athletics heptathlon to score a total of 5932 points in such a difficult event.
Cuba in the year ending achieved 18 medals at World Championships: seven gold, five silver and six bronze, with outstanding performance boxers, who won four times in the final.
Guantanamo has obtained four medals in World Championships in 2015, tough competition to accessing the best athletes in the world and where graduating is all a feat.
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez