Cuba will be today with four judokas in the second day of the Grand Slam in Antalya, Turkey, a contest that concludes tomorrow and that so far leads Mongolia with a gold and a silver medal.
Depending on the site www.ippon.orgthe Mongolians are followed in the standings by Chinese Taipei, Canada, Moldova and Hungary (1-0-0), in that order, the five countries that own the five gold medals in dispute on Friday.
Another 14 nations stood on the podium of the tournament, which has the participation of 525 judokas -312 men and 213 women- from 63 countries.
After the debut without a podium on Friday with five Cuban judokas, by the disciples of Julio Alderete (m) and Yordanis Arencibia (f) Cuba will be in action with four judokas today in the Grand Slam of Turkey, Héctor San Román (73 kg), Yasel Baeza (81 kg) and Idelannis Gómez (70 kg).
Estrada and San Román will face the Turkish Umalt Demirel and the Bulgarian Danislav Ivanov, respectively, Baeza against the Polish Damian Stepien, and Gómez against the Turkish Minel Akdeniz.
This Sunday, the last day of the tournament, Iván Silva (90 kg), Liester Cardona (100 kg), Andy Granda (over 100 kg) and Thalía Nariño (over 78 kg) will do so with the greatest chance of medals.
Silva will have to wait for the winner of the fight between the Turkish Can Guzel, Cardona will debut against the Bulgarian Kostadin Tsvetanov, Granda against the winner of the fight between the German Johannes Frey and the representative of the Netherlands Jelle Snippe, and Nariño against the Turkish Hilal Ozturk.
