Cuba will have good chances of a podium today at the closing of the Judo Grand Slam in Tbilisi, Georgia, when Iván Silva, in the 90 kilograms (kg), Andy Granda (+100 kg), Leanet Cardona (78 kg) come into action. and Idalis Ortiz (+78 kg).
According to the International Federation site www.ijf.org, Silva will start in the first round of the preliminaries against the Georgian Luka Babutsidze, like Granda, but against the Polish Kacper Szczurowski, in both cases among the favorites to discuss medals.
Idalis also appears among those who must discuss awards and will debut against the Russian Anastasiia Kholodilina, while Leanet will find her first rival in the Kosovar Loriana Kuka.
So far, Maylín del Toro (63 kg) recorded the best performance in the largest of the Antilles, finishing this Saturday in seventh place, as Jonathan Charón (60 kg), Orlando Polanco (66 kg), Magdiel Estrada ( 73 kg) and the young girl Aleanny Carbonell (52 kg), said goodbye to the tatami faster.
Georgia continues to lead the official medal table so far with two gold, followed by Canada (1-1-1), Croatia (1-1-0), South Korea (1-0-1), Kazakhstan (1-0-1 ) and Spain (1-0-0), the six nations with at least one title of the nine distributed so far.
The other two gold medals belong to Russia (2-0-1), but that country’s judokas compete on a neutral team and do not appear in the medal table.
In Tibiisi, 531 athletes from 83 countries registered in search of points for the world ranking that defines the Olympic one for the Paris 2024 Games.
2024-03-24 23:09:31
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