The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) celebrated the award gala on Thursday night best cuban athletes of 2022in which they were recognized as the best at individual level the canoeist Yarisleidis Cirilo and the judoka Andy Grandaboth world champions this year.
“I thank INDER, the Cuban sports system that gave us the opportunity to train and compete representing Cuba. They are primarily responsible for our success. With them and with all the Cuban people we have committed ourselves to continue reaping success by 2023. Cirilo said during the ceremony, according to the sports portal STRUCK.
Award-winning athletes and para-athletes paraded on the stage of the Glauber Rocha Theater, headquarters of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation, accompanied by their coaches, as well as representatives of the best teams and sports of the time.
In the collective sports section, they received their award baseball team5, first date world champions of this modality, in addition to volleyball and softball. They also won prizes canoeing and judo, the latter two awarded as best individual sports.
Niurkis Mora, Jesús Herrera and Alain Román were the most outstanding representatives in the group disciplines. Along with Yarisleidis, Cirilo herself and Katherin Nuevo were recognized as a non-individual event, a category in which The diving duo Luis Gustavo Cañabate and Carlos Daniel Ramos received a mention.
Luis Gustavo Cabañate Álvarez, who is still recovering from a serious accident a few weeks agoHe expressed his gratitude for the mention obtained.
“After this award I want to thank INDER, Esfaar Cardín, the Baraguá Swimming Pool Complex, my coaches, my parents and above all the Institute of Sports Medicine and all the doctors who saved my life after the accident that I suffered. To them I owe all my successes and those that I can achieve in the future”, said the young man.
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There was also applause for the best athletes and hired referees; lists that this year included Arlenis Sierra (cycling), Miguel Ángel López (volleyball) and Raidel Martínez (baseball), on the one hand, and Jorge Luis Vega (athletics, best national) and Yunior Sosa (wrestling, best international), on other. .
Athletes like Leuris Pupo (sport shooting), Katherine Nuevo (canoeing), Serguey Torres (canoeing), Julio Cesar La Cruz (boxing), Ivan Silva (judo), Idalys Ortiz (judo), Lazaro Martinez (athletics) have also had their special moment. ), Daniela Darriba (Basque ball) and Carlos Daniel Albornoz (chess).
And among the unconventional Leinier Savón (athletics), Ulises Aguilera (athletics), Guillermo Varona (athletics), Dalidayvis Rodríguez (judo), Juan Manuel Romero (judo), Yunier Fernández (table tennis), Leydi Rodríguez (weight), Manuel Alejandro del Rosario (badminton) Suslaidy Girat (athletics), Sheyla Samarian (judo), Robiel Yanquiel Sol (athletics) and Laura Beatriz Yánez (badminton).
The gala was chaired by Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government; Osvaldo Vento Montiller, President of INDER, and Roberto León Richard, President of the Cuban Olympic Committee. In the artistic part, he had the singer David Torrens, among others.
The awards for the best athletes of the year take place in a dark year 2022 for INDER, which in recent months has seen dozens of elite Cuban athletes and former athletes from more than a dozen disciplines leave. the country.
