Cuban duet wins bronze medal in CCCAN

Havana, October 21 (JIT)-- Another bronze medal, this time to the account of Soila Carelys Valdes and Andy Manuel Avila in the mixed duet technical routine, conquered Cuba on Thursday in artistic swimming at the Central American and Caribbean Championship of Amateur Swimming (CCCAN) of Panama 2022.

World finalists in Budapest 2022, the Cubans earned a score of 65.584 points and finished behind Colombia's Jennifer Cerquera and Gustavo Sanchez (73.2940), and Mexico's Maya Daniela Belmont and Diego Villalobos (72.4706).

Soila and Andy, competing for the first time in a regional competition, received scores above 20 units from the panels of judges in charge of evaluating the execution, artistic impression and technical elements.

What happened in the Eileen Coparropa pool was as expected. The representations of Mexico and Colombia have the advantage of competing regularly in international competitions and therefore a greater exposure to those in charge of the evaluations.

With this medal, Cuba reached three bronze medals in the competition, as it had previously won the technical solo with Gabriela Alpajón, and the women's duet with Dayaris Varona and Gabriela herself, in both cases with their technical routines.

Still to be held are the technical team routines, in which besides Gabriela and Dayaris will be involved Dyliam Marrero, Kamila Frias, Rosabel Reyes, Gabriela Batista, Alejandra Molina and Stefanni Revilla.

Then, the free routines of each specialty, as well as the so-called highlight routine, are scheduled to be disputed.

The team competition is the most important of the calendar, as the five best placed countries will ensure their participation in all the modalities that will be convened for the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023.