Havana, Apr 23 (ACN) Cuba dominated the individual judo tournament of the V ALBA Games, closing today with five gold, one silver and one bronze medals, to lead the medal table (10-3-1). , with a stage in the National Judo Center of the United Nations Park of the Libertador municipality.
On Saturday he also had an outstanding performance (5-2-0), highlighting this Sunday for the champions Dayanara Curbelo, in the plus 78 kilograms (kg), Daymarelis Caballero (70 kg), Rubén Darío (81 kg), José Alexis Garcia (100 kg) and Jonathan Loynaz (+100 kg).
The silver metal was conquered by Serguei Rodríguez (90 kg) and the tan, Lianet Cardona (+78 kg).
#Cuba fills podium in judo at the V Games of the #Alba of #Venezuela 2023.
With a similar performance as in the previous day, this Sunday he reached 5 titles and two subtitles to complete a feat of 10 crowns and 4 silver medals.#MasRetosMasCompromiso@jit_digital @InderCuba pic.twitter.com/RjS2zCy19M— Raúl Hernández Lima (@PeriodistaRaul) April 23, 2023
With these results, the 14 Cuban judokas competing during the two days climbed to the podium, with the gold medalists of the first date in Elidiany Martínez (52 kg), Yusmaris Reyes (63 kg), Yonathan Charón (60 kg), Maikel Oconor Salazar (66 kg) and Héctor San Román (73 kg).
For their part, Cheila Areviche (48 kg) and Lian Benavides (57 kg) concluded with the silver medals, without a doubt, another outstanding performance of the young judokas, who fulfilled the objective of contributing to the general medal table of Cuba in the multidisciplinary event that It will end on the 29th.
postcards of the day #judo where the team #Cuba won five gold medals in the #JuegosDelAlba2023 in #Venezuela #MasRetosMasCompromiso pic.twitter.com/XQznsImYT7
— Roberto Morejón Rdgu (@Robemorejon1973) April 22, 2023
Thus, the largest of the Antilles (10-3-1), which assists in only 22 of the 33 sports called by the organizers, led the standings, followed by Venezuela (4-9-1), Nicaragua ( 0-2-5) and Bolivia (0-0-2), respectively, the four nations present in judo, according to the official site of the Games.
As announced, this Monday will be the mixed team tournament, with action in the divisions of 57, 70 and more than 70 kg for women, and 73, 90 and more than 90 kg for men, as in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Taking into account the medal table of the individual competition, Cuba will once again be the favorite to win the mixed team competition, with its main rival in Venezuela.
2023-04-24 01:21:55
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