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Rafael Manso reelected in continental judo executive committee

Havana, May 27 (ACN) The Cuban Rafael Manso was re-elected to the executive committee of the Pan American Judo Confederation (CPJ), in its ordinary general congress virtually.

In this way, the president of the National Federation of this sport repeated this Wednesday as Director of Development of the CPJ, after the elections carried out with the participation of representatives of 31 of the 34 affiliated countries.
Manso maintains that responsibility since 2015, in recognition of his work and the results of Cuban judo at the national and international level.

Speaking to the Cuban News Agency (ACN), the Cuban commissioner also expressed his pride in continuing in this important work in favor of the development of judo.

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He also explained today that when he received the news, he contacted the Peruvian Carlos Zegarra, new president of the new Confederation leadership, to whom he communicated his full support and details about a broad theoretical-practical development plan with low-level countries. In the area.

He added that he specified to the new head that CPJ can already count on the full support of Cuban judo, with trainers, doctors, psychologists and physiotherapists, that is, with all its specialists.

Zegarra is a former judoka bronze medalist of more than 100 kilograms of the Pan American Games of Rio de Janeiro 2007 and participant in the Olympic Games of Beijing 2008, highlights the sports publication JIT.

After his appointment, Zegarra said that working in that CPJ committee is a great challenge due to the current health complications due to the pandemic and meant that “having dared to hold events, having dared to be on the move only speaks of love more pure that we all have for judo ”.

In other top CPJ positions, Canadian Mike Tamura and Puerto Rican José Porfirio were elected as secretary and treasurer, respectively.

The other directors are the Argentine Ovidio Garnero, in the Arbitration, the Venezuelan Katiuska Santaella (Education), the Brazilian Amadeus Dias de Moura (Deportivo), and the American José Humberto Rodríguez (Administrative).

The congress held virtually through the Zoom platform also had on its agenda the presentation of activity reports for the 2020-2021 period by the Sports, Education, Refereeing and Communication commissions.

He also offered a report on the organization’s financial statements.

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