Havana, November 29 (ACN) -- Cuba finished in fourth place by countries in the VI Central American and Caribbean School Sports Games of Venezuela 2023, by winning 29 medals, distributed in 11 gold, 11 silver and seven bronze.

The website of the sports publication JIT highlights today that this total of medals was won by 34 athletes, including the 10 volleyball players, who could only fight for a medal with the men's team.

He also highlights the good performance in the discussion of medals -finals-, since there were 22 and a 50 percent effectiveness rate was achieved.

On Tuesday, boxers Teudis Brooks, Yeison Pamina and Bárbaro Quevedo won titles for the largest of the Antilles, while Eudis Brooks won the silver medal, adds JIT.

In other Cuban results on the last day of the multidisciplinary school competition, weightlifting brought three bronze medals through Lorena Montoya.

Gold medals were also won by freestyle wrestlers Yocelandy Ulacia and José Fernández, who had also dominated his division in the Greco-Roman style on the previous day, while bookwrestler Sanay Salas won the silver medal.

The volleyball players also climbed the podium, but with bronze medals, on a day when the representatives of swimming, taekwondo and table tennis did not win,

In general, the four sports that brought titles to Cuba were athletics, with three, boxing (3), wrestling (3) and judo (2), with special mention for wrestler José Fernández, two-time champion in the freestyle and Greco-Roman styles.

The Central Caribbean school event hosted 12 sports: chess, athletics, 3x3 basketball, boxing, judo, karate, weightlifting, wrestling, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis and volleyball, and 908 medals of the three colors were distributed.

Cuba attended with a delegation of 50 people, including 35 athletes of 15 years of age -up to 17 years old-, who competed in 10 of the disciplines -minus karate and 3x3 basketball-.