Milena Venegas

Havana, October 31 (ACN) - A group of Cuban rowers will travel this Tuesday to Mexico to participate in a regional qualifying race for the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023.

"The tournament will be from November 23 to 28, but before that we are going to do a training base," Ángel Luis García Fidalgo, president of the Cuban Rowing Federation, told JIT.

"We have the purpose of qualifying in all the boats, most of them with new members," meant the also national commissioner of this sport.

"It will be a good championship because 16 countries are expected to participate," said García Fidalgo, head of the delegation.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympian, Milena Venegas, and the Pan American medalist in Lima 2019, Carlos Andriel Ajete, lead the representation and will compete in the 1x, 2x and 4x.

The women's squad also includes Yariulvis Cobas García, Natalie Bárbara Morales Rodríguez, Nayadeleine Torres Tarancón, Ana Laura Jiménez Bueno, Glenys Rafaela Perdomo Solan and Yudisleidys Rodríguez Rodríguez Rodríguez.

They are accompanied by Boris Luis Guerra Deñó, Reidy Cardona Blanco, Andrey Barnet Laguna, Yoelvis Javier Hernández Campanioni, Jorge Félix Patterson Blanco, Ennier Tamayo Álvarez, Alexei Carballosa Ramírez and Luis José León Pulgar.

In San Salvador will compete in 13 modalities, six for men, six for women and one mixed. The six for men are the single (1xPL) and the double pair of short oars (2xPL) in the light category, and the single (1x), double pair (2x), double without coxswain (2-) and four pairs (4x) in the open category.

The women will compete in the 1xPL, 2x, 1x, 2x, 2x, 2- and 4x, while the only coed is the 4-.

Of the 16 athletes called up, only Ajete-Guerra and Venegas-Cobas experienced international action so far this year, during the world championship in Racice, in the Czech Republic, in September.

In the European nation, the females were out of the competition after finishing sixth in the preliminaries and the males finished sixth in the C final.

Dr. Rita María Martínez la Rosa and coaches Marialina Pola Boza, Joan Manuel Paula Azcuy, Nelson Simón Hernández and José Luis León Menéndez will travel to the competition in Mexico.