Havana, May 11 (ACN) Judoka Iván Silva appears today as Cuba’s main trump card in the fifth day of the individual tournament of the World Championship in Doha, Qatar, a contest that will conclude this Sunday with the mixed team tournament.
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Silva, weighing 90 kilograms (kg), will climb the mats this Thursday in search of the first podium in the largest of the Antilles, after two dates with failed attempts with Arnaes Odelín (57 kg), Magdiel Estrada (73 kg) and Maylín del Toro (63 kg), all three in their first presentations.
According to the International Federation website www.ijf.org, the outstanding athlete from Matanzas, Baku 2018 world runner-up, and bronze medalist at the Grand Slams in Paris and Tbilisi, both in 2023, was bye in the first round of preliminaries and will wait for the winner of the Czech David Klammert and the Frenchman Maxime-Gael Ngayap.
Klammer won the gold medal at the Perth Oceania Open and finished fifth – he discussed bronze – at the Paris Grand Slam, while Ngayap holds the bronze at the Tbilisi 2022 Grand Slam and seventh place at the French capital in 2023 .
Cuba will also have action this Thursday with Idelannnis Gómez, gold and bronze at the Santo Domingo and Varadero Open in 2023, in that order, and will have its first match against Slovak Anka Pogacnik, gold at the Perth Oceania Open.
It should be noted that Arnaes lost this Tuesday against the French Leonie Cysique, Olympic gold and silver medalist of the Tokyo 2020 mixed and individual team, in that order, who confirmed her status as favorite by winning the 57 kg.
Something similar happened with Maylín, who was surpassed, but by Ippon and in the Golden Rule, by the gala and monarch Clarisse Agbegnenou, Olympic (2-1-0) and world (5-2-0) multi-medalist.
On Friday, Liester Cardona (100 kg) will do it against the British Harry Lovell-Kewitt, while on Saturday, the last date of the individual, Andy Granda (+100) and Idalis Ortiz (+78 kg) will debut.
Granda will face the winner of the fight between the Senegalese Mbagnick Ndiaye and the Romanian Mircea Croitoru, and Idalis will face the Turkish Dilo Kiara.
In the individual tournament, 657 judokas -343 men and 314 women- from 99 participating countries participate in search of points for the world and Olympic rankings for the Paris Games.
The championship distributes points for the RM and the Olympic Games ahead of Paris 2024, and will close this Sunday with the mixed team competition with the presence of 211 athletes -110 (m) and 101 (f) – from 18 nations, including the The Netherlands, the first rival of the Cuban team.
2023-05-11 12:52:32
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