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Havana.- THE CAPITALINES Leydis Posada and Larissa Pagán contributed the most outstanding notes today at the start of the Elite Archery Championship 2024, based in Sancti Spíritus.
Without being the most notable, Leydis’ performance in the double return at 70 meters from the recurve bow generated joy. The girl with a disability shot arrows alongside the best exponents in the country and achieved the minimum mark required to participate in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
After failing to secure a place in the Dubai qualifying tournament, the student of former goalkeeper Juan Carlos Stevens had the challenge of achieving at least 530 points, a limit that she surpassed by rounding 532.
With the figure that improves her personal record of 487 units, it allowed her to close as fourth in the general ranking and opt for one of the invitations to compete in the City of Light.
«I consider it a great achievement. I have been in sport for a very short time and my dream is to be in Paris,” confessed the Tourism graduate, who competes as a lower limb amputee.
“She is a girl who has always been on the rise, she does very serious work and I am proud to be her coach,” said Stevens, fifth Olympic winner in Beijing 2008, and also in his first experience with people with disabilities.
This Wednesday’s segment was dominated by Larissa with a mark of 608 points, highly praised by coach Vladimir Quintas and valid to surpass the host Yailín Paredes (592) and Maydenia Sarduy from Matanzas (585).
“She shot very comfortably, I even think she could have had a better score, but in any case what she achieved reaffirms the good level that we have seen from her in recent months,” he said. JIT the coach, increasingly satisfied with Larissa’s reintegration into the national team in the middle of last year.
“I also consider Maydenia’s score to be good, because I appreciate a positive reaction to changes we have made to help her take better advantage of her ‘sports longevity,'” he explained.
Regarding the variations introduced in the dynamics of the Cuban with better international results in the last decade, he referred to some components of her bow that facilitate her work in coordinating movements.
Of the rest of the contestants, Quintas explained that they have a longer road ahead of them, since the level exhibited is still far from what is necessary to add them to the national preselection.
MEN READY FOR ACTION
A much closer atmosphere could be seen this Thursday, when the men begin their qualifying rounds to define the integration of the groups for the new second phase of the competition.
Hugo Franco from Pinar del Río starts as the main figure, but the spotlight will also be on Juan José Santiesteban from Las Tunas and Javier Vega from Sancti Spiritus, who completed the bronze medalist team at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador 2023.
The group matches were set for Friday, using the round-robin system, whose winners will advance to the semi-final stage.
The individual medals for each sex and the competition for mixed teams will be distributed between Saturday and Sunday.
2024-05-15 23:57:28
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