Salas and Torreblanca fall in their first outings at the World Wrestling Championship

بقلم: Ed Newman
2023-05-08 08:39:47

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Cuba completes wrestling quotas for the Santiago 2023 Games

Havana, May 8 (JIT) - Cuba will have full wrestling teams at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, at the end of the year, after completing the qualification in the continental competition held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

With only the Greco-Roman team fully assured for the event, the task on South American soil consisted of filling quotas in the women's and freestyle.

The team under the command of professor Filiberto Delgado did the task on Friday, when María Fernanda Santana (62 kg) won the ticket with a discreet eighth place.

This Saturday, the work was completed in the bookstyle competition, thanks to the second place of Alejandro Valdés in the 65 kg and the fifth place of Reineris Salas in the 125 kg.      

As far as medals are concerned, professor Raúl Trujillo's fencers won the titles of Luis Orta (67 kg), Oscar Pino (130 kg) and Daniel Grégorich (87 kg), the silver medal of Yosvanys Peña (77 kg) and the bronze medal of Kevin de Armas (60 kg). The only member of the team who did not reach the podium was Yurisandy Hernández (97 kg).

The women's team, led by Filiberto Delgado, also won five medals. Milaymis Marín Potrillé (76 kg) climbed to the top of the podium and in bronze were Yusneylis Guzmán (50 kg), Laura Herin (53 kg), Ángela Álvarez (57 kg) and Hangelen Llanes (68 kg). We already know that María Fernanda Santana (62 kg) finished eighth.

Finally, Julio Mendieta's bookish celebrated the crown of Yurieski Torreblanca in the 86 kg, the silver medals of Valdés (65 kg) and Arturo Silot (97 kg), and the third places of Santiago Hernández Chaveco (57 kg) and Franklin Marén (74 kg). Reineris Salas (125 kg) finished in fifth place.   

The wrestling teams have ahead of them the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023 (June-July), the world competition of Belgrade (September) and the Pan American Games of Santiago 2023.



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