Cuba wins eight medals at IBSA Pan American Judo Championship in Edmonton

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 13 (ACN) The eight Cuban parajudocas who participated this weekend at the IBSA Pan American Judo Championships in Edmonton, Canada, won eight medals, two gold, two silver and four bronze medals.

Senen Ramos, head coach of the men’s national team, informed the Cuban News Agency (ACN) that Jose Manuel Romero, in the 73 kilograms (kg), J2 category, and Yordenis Fernandez Sastre (+90 kg/J2), won the titles.

The silver medals went to Sheila Samarian Hernandez (+70 kg/J2), the most outstanding Cuban female disability athlete of 2022 and world silver medalist in Baku, Azerbaijan, and Arianna de la Caridad Echavarria (70 kg/J1).

Yonaldi Gonzalez (73 kg/J1), Yennis Garcia (60 kg/J1), Reinaldo Zamora (90 kg/J1) and Dainelis Calunga (57 kg/J2) won the bronze medals coach of the women’s national team.

Ramos described as very positive the performance of the Cubans, who fulfilled 100% of the expected goal, since they all won medals and points for the world ranking, in view of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

To compete in the cycle until Paris 2024, IBISA put into effect since January 1 a new medical-functional evaluation system that now has only two classes: J1 (visual acuity of less than or equal to LogMAR 2.6 in binocular vision) and J2 (visual acuity within a range between LogMAR 1.3 and 2.5 with binocular vision, or with a binocular visual field of 60 degrees or less in diameter).