In this way, the South American walker joins the Brazilians Ana Marcela Cunha (swimming) and Rafaela Silva (judo) among whom add one vote, in a vote headed by the Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas, with seven.
In the men’s section, Xinhua favored the Cuban judoka Andy Granda, who thus reached five ballots and leads his section, ahead of the Brazilian runner Alison dos Santos, who has two.
Lastly, the Asian agency gave its preference to the Argentine basketball team in terms of the best team of the year, a list dominated by the Cuban canoeing duo (Yarisleidis Cirilo and Katherin Nuevo) with four votes, one more than the Albicelestes.
The reception of votes will be open until December 22 and a day later the results will be announced.
The votes of the media -radio, television and written press- (not in a personal capacity), may be sent to the following electronic address: [email protected].
