Photo: Calixto N. Llanes (JIT special envoy)
Havana, March 10 (RHC)-- Cuba will be present with 25 representatives in the athletics competition of the V ALBA Games of Venezuela 2023, scheduled for April 21-29.
This was confirmed to the publication JIT by the national commissioner of that sport, Rolando Charroo, without advancing names of the possible members of the group, as assessments are pending to adjust its composition.
The executive assured that the event will serve as preparation for the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023, hence, among the chosen ones, there are several figures with the potential to win medals in that quadrennial event.
"We will form a group in which we will also include youth athletes with results, to ensure the logical progression within the national pre-selection," Charroo added about other aspects considered to face the event.
As part of the preparation, the so-called confrontations of the national team were held during February, whose first stage will close next weekend at the Pan American Stadium in Havana.
According to the program provided by statistician Alfredo Sanchez, there will be morning and afternoon action, from Friday to Sunday, with eliminatory segments for the track events.
Among the attractions will be the decathlon and heptathlon competitions, especially with the return of Adriana Rodriguez in the latter, as well as the incursion of young Marys Patterson, who will seek to surpass 6,000 points for the first time.
The discus and shot put events in each gender could also be interesting, while Roxana Gómez is expected to make another appearance on the track in the women's 400 meters.
Zurian Hechevarría, main figure in the 400 meters hurdles, but inactive until now due to an injury, should reappear in the national panorama.
The big absentees will be those who took on the commitments of the so-called winter season and who are still at the preparation base located in Montegordo, Portugal.
Prominent figures such as triple jumpers Liadagmis Povea, Leyanis Pérez and Lázaro Martínez, long jumper Maikel Massó and high jumper Luis Enrique Zayas must return to the island on the 11th to continue their preparation at home.
