Today you can continue harvesting on the tatami. Author: Roberto Morejon Rodriguez/AIN
Cuban judokas showed their dominance this Saturday at the Parque Naciones Unidas in Caracas, winning a total of five titles and a pair of silver medals in the second competitive tournament on the 5th. Alba Games Venezuela 2023.
The crowns of the island went to the women Elidiani Martinez (52 kg) and Yusmaris Reyes (63 kg), while the men were won by Jonathan Charon (60 kg), Maikel O’Conor (66 kg) and Hector San Roman (73 kg). . Among the women there was also a subtitle pair, in which Sheila Arevice (48 kg, w) and Lian Benavidez (57 kg, w) performed on the podium.
The remaining medals on the tatami were entirely owned by the representatives of the local delegations, Venezuela A and B, who achieved two gold and five silver.
Another gold metal of the day for the Greater Antilles was the poomsae mixed pair of Dario Navarro and Tanya Delgado, who won the prizes in the event, which took place at the Army Military Academy gym in Fort Tiuna. Caracas.
Meanwhile, at the Teo Capriles Velodrome in the Venezuelan capital, figure skaters Hector Caballero and Adriana Cantillo won subtitles and bronze in that order in the 200m individual sprint.
The island added its first title this Friday when Lysandra Ordaz won the Blitz, a tournament in which she and her compatriots Oleini Linares, Janiela Forgas and Yerisbel Miranda competed in a genderless group.
Ordaz added 7.5 units, thus overtaking the Venezuelans Samid Escalona and Ronald Brizuela, both with 6.5 and finishing second and third respectively.
For their part, Linares, the reigning Cuban champion, Forgas and Miranda finished tenth through twelfth in the same order.
At the end of this edition, the island still had a good chance of continuing to add medals on Saturday as it had representatives in several swimming finals. In addition, members of the women’s softball team made their debut against their counterpart from Nicaragua at the Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias Stadium.
Source: Juventud Rebelde