{"id":3316,"date":"2023-03-29T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:38:33","slug":"yarisleydis-cirilo-duboy-the-youngest-candidate-for-cuban-parliament-in-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/yarisleydis-cirilo-duboy-the-youngest-candidate-for-cuban-parliament-in-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarisleydis Cirilo Duboy, the Youngest Candidate for Cuban Parliament in Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/yarisleydis-cirilo-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Guantanamera Yarisleydis Cirilo, la m\u00e1s joven entre los candidatos a diputados a la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/yarisleydis-cirilo-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/yarisleydis-cirilo.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For Yarisleydis Cirilo Duboys, 21 years old high-performance canoeing athlete, being today the youngest candidate for deputy to the National Assembly of People&#8217;s Power for the province of Guant\u00e1namo, is the biggest challenge of her life.<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69d29eae288d46046215720' value='69d29eae288d46046215720'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69d29eae288d46046215720' value='Read more'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69d29eae288d46046215720' value='ver menos'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69d29eae288d46046215720' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Read more<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69d29eae288d46046215720' ><\/div><\/p>\n<p>From early age, she has won the highest awards in canoeing, and also is the best athlete in her province and in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Yarisleydis said that being selected among so many wonderful and empowered women to represent Cuban women, athletes and young people, it is also a great responsibility, which is also aware of her high responsibility as her greatest award in these years of service to the people and to the Island\u2019s sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for the support, I must not disappoint those who have trusted me,&#8221; she repeats over and over again, with a timid but at the same time cheerful voice, the young woman who could be part of Parliament, if she is ratified in district 1 that includes the outskirts neighborhoods Reparto Obrero, Norte Los Cocos Confluentes, Caribe, Pastorita and district 9, San Justo, in the Guant\u00e1namo Municipality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But, what makes this canoeist such a model that she stands out among so many on this side of the archipelago?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00abI have participated in different competitions: the World Championships in Pitesti, Romania, in which I won the silver medal in the c1 at 200 meters, and bronze in the c1 at 5,000 meters, in 2019, and the World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 16, 2021, where I won a silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abI was also in the II Speed Canoeing World Cup, in the City of Barnaul, in Russia, where I obtained a gold medal; in the 2020Tokyo Olympic Games, I finished at the sixth place, being the first Cuban women at this level \u00bb, she explained.<\/p>\n<p>In her last competition in Halifax, Canada, she dominated her c1 series at 200 meters, with a time of 46.52, showing her high performance and experience, which confirms her as a firm candidate for the podium in Paris-2024.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason and more, she was considered the most outstanding female athlete in the youth category in Guantanamo, the Cuban rookie of the year 2021, and the best Cuban female athlete in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abMany people don\u2019t\u2019 know that at the beginnings I used to play volleyball. I really liked it and I began voluntarily. Then, several coaches from the Caimanera Nautical Academy came to my city and, through direct recruitment, due to my physical conditions, I went to that academy, I thought I would be a rower, and they sent me to canoeing,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was a rising career. After wining several national competitions, at the end of the ninth grade, she made up the Cuba women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Cirilo is a champion, although she does not always win medals, she knows that her effort counts, so that she undertakes each task with commitment: &#8220;to become an Olympic champion is my next dream, and now the nomination for deputy of Cuban Parliament, is a big surprised for me,&#8221; she adds, \u201cIt is also another task that I must fulfill and I will fulfill, if the people want it that way. 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