Cuba in Cali-Valle: Fourth day of the Junior Pan American Games

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Cuba begins this day in sixth place on the medal table, a position that until now is around the expected according to the organization chart. The surprises of diving, the titles of judo and the contributions of boating have come together to not let a day go by without some joy.

For this fourth date, action will be seen in sports with medal options, such as judo, diving and weights. Likewise, baseball classification continues and our fighters will try to keep up.

For their part, handball women will fight for fifth place and the swimming team will continue to move closer and improve their records.

Cuba program for the day:

  • 8.30 am - Adianez Martínez and Eddy Vázquez. 10m mixed rifle. Sport's shot
  • 9:00 am – 9:00 am - Daniela Ciara-Alejandro Rodríguez and Isabel Rodríguez-Kevin Milián, Mixed Relay Final. Triatron
  • 10:00 am - Lorena González, Adrián Navarro, Daysi Ramírez, Julio Calero, Victor Hernández, Andrea Becali, Samy Rondón, Mayté González, Vladimir Hernández and 4x100m medley relay. Playoffs. Swimming
  • 1:20 am - Mixed doubles. Quarter finals. Badminton
  • 11:40 am - CUB vs MEX. Discussion 5th place. Handball
  • 12:19 pm - Aylena de las Mercedes Quevedo. Omnium Final. Cycling
  • 1:00 pm - Anisley García and Yenifer Medina. 3m trampoline finish. Dived
  • 1:00 pm - Elizabeth Tamayo and Noel Quintana. Mixed 10m pistol. Sport's shot
  • 1:30 pm - CUB vs NIC. Classification. Baseball
  • 3:00 pm - Pavel Echaide (63 kg), Kryhztian Barrera (75 kg), Ronny Álvarez (91 kg) and Adrián Fresneda (+91 kg). Playoffs. Boxing
  • 3:20 pm - Give them Daniel Ramos and Luis Gustavo Cañabate. End of platform 10m. Dived
  • 5:00 pm - Daniel Cabrera. Final 109 kg. Weightlifting
  • 5:00 pm - Final mixed team. Judo
  • 7:30 pm - Elizabeth Caridad Reyes. Final 87 kg. Weightlifting
This is how the medal table dawns

Triathlon: Cuba finishes fifth in mixed relay final
 

The Cuban post made up of Daniela Ciara, Alejandro Rodríguez, Isabel Rodríguez and Kevin Milan finished fifth with a time of 1h 26: 38.00, in the mixed relay final of the triathlon of these first Junior Pan American Games.

On the podium were the representatives of Ecuador, Mexico, the United States, with times of 1h 24: 15.00, 1h 24: 15.00, 1h 24: 43.00, in that order. The fourth place went to Chile (1h 26: 10.00), which until the last minute was battling with Cuba at the Calima Lake Nautical Club.


Time of one hour and seven minutes recorded Ciara after completing 750 meters of swimming, 20 kilometers by bicycle and five of running. Rodríguez scored 1: 14.35 in the standings led by Mexican Anahí Álvarez (1: 03.59).
Among men, Alejandro Rodríguez finished tenth and Kevin Milián in 14th place.

 

10-meter air rifle: Sixth place for Cuba in the mixed event
 
10-meter air rifle: Sixth place for Cuba in the mixed event
The couple of Adianez Martínez and Eddy Vázquez placed sixth in the mixed modality 10-meter air rifle, in a competition held this Sunday morning at the Bernardo Tobar Polígono de Cali.
The Creoles, after a slow start, were sharpening their aim and obtained 598.1 units in the qualifying series to secure a place in the tie. Scores of 195.2, 197.5, and 199.1 in the three series of 20 shots, allowed him to take over eighth place and displace the Colombian duo (576.2 pts.)
In the second half, after 10 shots for each one to two rounds, they were left out of the medal discussion by equaling with Brazil in the sixth seat with 402 points (199.6 and 202.1 pts.), To close the Cuban performance in these games in this discipline.
The Matanzas had made her international debut a couple of days ago with a 14th place in the individual of this test, while the Holguin player had achieved ninth place this Saturday, staying one step away from the final.
So far, Cuba has five places in the 2023 Pan American Games

One of the incentives of this first edition of the Junior Pan American Games is that the winners of each event receive quotas for the continental appointment for seniors agreed for Santiago de Chile in 2023.
 
In this way, Cuba already assured the presence of José Ramón Pelier in the C1-1000m, as well as a women's boat in the C2-500m. On her side, diver Anisley García also has a safe place after her title on the springboard - the team event is not part of the program in Chile.
 
Finally, the judokas Thalía Nariño and Omar Cruz are others with insured tickets, although in their cases they have in their divisions among majors the stellar Idalys Ortiz and Andy Granda.
 
Swimming: Mayté González, Andrea Becali and the combined mixed relay sign the best for Cuba

The first place in the final B of the 800m freestyle for women and the classification to the final A of Andrea Becali in the 100m backstroke and of the quartet of the mixed medley relay, were the best performances of the Cuban swimmers in the extensive day of classification of this Sunday.
Mayté commanded her test with a time of 9: 23.10, a record that ultimately places her in 9th place in the general ranking. For her part, Becali set a time of 1: 04.71 to enter third in the elimination of her and ensure passage to the medal discussion.
In turn, Samy Rondón, Julio Calero, Lorena González and Andrea Becali achieved a national record of 4: 06.74 to enter second in their qualifying heat and ensure their presence in the final A of the event.

Of the rest of our representatives, Samy Rondón took his personal best in the 100m backstroke to 59.26s and got a pass to the final B. In that instance, but of the 800m freestyle, Vladimir Hernández (8: 50.18) finished in fifth place.
 
For their part, Adrián Navarro (53.98s) and Maikol Rabí (54.89s) did not advance in the 100m freestyle, while Daysi Ramírez (2: 45.69) and Julio Calero (2: 31.73) did not advance either in the 200m breaststroke.
Partidazo takes women's handball to fifth place

In a great game of high tensions, the Cuban Creoles of handball beat the Mexicans 39-36 at the Iván Vassilev Todorov Coliseum of the National Sports School of Cali, to conclude at the top of the consolation round and finally place in the fifth position of the tournament.
 
With ups and downs in their performance throughout the competition, this Sunday they took the physical extra to come from below twice on the scoreboard in each of the two regulation times of play, and snatch the victory from their opponents, third at just like them in their qualifying group.
 
Those led by coach Jorge Coll seemed beaten in the first set but a few minutes before the break they came back and ended up sending 18-16.

 

In the second, the Mexicans took the lead, but were disoriented by the Antillean rebellion with little time to go until the final whistle and were crushed by their push.
 
 
Captain Nahomy de la Caridad Rodriguez and Liliamnis Rosabal carried the weight of the Cuban attack with ten goals each, while Melisa Arias scored eight. For the Aztecs Sayra Pereira hit hard with 11 balls cast in the rival goal.
 
Anisley García is fourth in the 3m springboard
 
 

The diver Anisley García Navarro finished fourth in the 3m springboard of these Games, with a total of 253.6 points.
 
García took the champion lineage and saved the best jump for the end, although she did not reach the podium, in a test led by Mexican Frida Catherin Zuñiga, with 292.7 units.

 

Behind, the Colombian Steffanie Madrigal was located, who gave a great competition (286.25). The bronze went to the American Joslyn Oakley (261).
 
With the result, the girl from Cerro closed her performance in the competition (two titles, a bronze and a fourth place), being the athlete with the best record so far in the first Youth Pan American Games.
 
In the fair, which she gathered 18 competitors in the Hernando Botero swimming pool complex; the also Cuban Yenifer Miriam Medina occupied the ninth seat, with 222. 5 stripes.
Ninth place for the mixed duo in the air pistol
The duo of Elizabeth Tamayo and Noel Quintana, both just 19 years old, placed nine in the mixed test of the air pistol at 10 meters, to close the performance of the Cuban Sports Shooting in these Junior Pan American Games.
 
In the individual competition, the man from Matanzas had been in seat number 13 among 17 participants and the Bayamesa managed to advance to a seventh position, a very commendable place for her.

 

Cuban boxing reaps a silver and a bronze in Cali
 
The day was profitable for the flagship. The middleweight Kryhztian Barrera beat Mexican José Luis López 3-1 (28-28), (28-29), (28-29), (28-29), (29-28), and got bronze.
 
This Monday he will try to improve the color of his medal when he faces American Dante Layne. The official site of the event also reports another convincing 5-0 victory for 52 kg Ewart Marín, this time over Guatemalan José Daniel Felipe, (27-30), (27-30), (28-29), (27- 30), (27-30), with which he secured the silver of his division, and became the first finalist of the Cuban squad.
 
On Saturday, Marín had beaten Brazilian boxer Ronald Andrade Ribeiro 4-1 (30-27), (29-28), (30-27), (29-28), (28-29), obtaining a bronze medal, at the Luis Ignacio Álvarez Coliseum, more than 70 kilometers from Cali.
 
In other results, according to the Games page, light welterweight Pavel Echaide fell 5-0 this Sunday to local boxer Carlos Utria (28-29), (27-30), (28-29), (28 -29), (27-30), losing the bronze chances.
 
Pan American baseball: Cuba skates against Nicaragua
 

The Cuban under 23 team that participates in the I Junior Pan American Games in Cali-Valle 2021, was defeated this Sunday by Nicaragua 2x3 in its second start, and jeopardized its classification for the next phase of the tournament.
A couple of runs marked the troop of mentor Eriel Sánchez to starter Santos Jarquín in the same first episode, thanks to a tugging tubey from captain Guillermo Garcia and a rocket booster from third baseman Adrián Rivera.
No one present at the Edgar Renteria stadium could predict that these would be the only indisputable ones that the Antilleans would sign up during the entire challenge.
Jarquín, a 22-year-old pitcher who was the leader in ERA this year in his country's German Pomares League, took a second wind and walked to complete five innings, striking out four to completely silence the Cuban cops.
Meanwhile, in the bottom of the fourth inning, Pinocchio catcher Rodolfo Bone homered off starter Marlon Vega with two teammates on the pads, which ultimately decided the game. These races were the first allowed by the rookie of the year of the last National Series in the Cuban uniform, after working 15 blank innings.
After this defeat, the only possibilities for the Creole team is to beat Venezuela, world champion of the category, this Monday and wait for the result of the Nicaragua-Brazil duel, as it has been happening for a few years, to do the math.
Silver for Cuba on a 10 m platform
Cuban Luis Gustavo Cañabate Álvarez obtained a silver medal on the 10 m platform of these first Youth Pan American Games, with a score of 416.25.
Cañabate had a brilliant sixth jump that catapulted him to the privileged places. The test was dominated by the Mexican Randal Willars (448.9), while the bronze corresponded to the Brazilian Kawan Figueredo, owner of 393.85 units.
“For me this new result is a boost to my career, because I am only at the beginning. During the jumping round I was a bit nervous. He saw that the main opponents, like the Mexican, failed. That gave me an air and I said: 'I can', and I managed to get the medal, "said Cañabate in exclusive statements to Cubadebate.
The other Cuban in competition, Carlos Daniel Ramos Rodríguez, was fifth (359.05).
The diver Cañabate had already known the Cali medal table, when he won the team gold, along with Anisley García, Laydel Cervantes and Carlos Daniel Ramos. The victory was a historic performance for the discipline in Cuba, and the first gold medal in Cali-Valle 2021.
The Cuban dive closed the event with two titles, two silver and one bronze, in addition to two fourth places. In this way, he was placed second by country, only surpassed by Mexico that completed eight medals (4-3-1). Cycling: Aylena de las Mercedes Quevedo behind in the Omnium
Aylena de las Mercedes Quevedo closed in the last place of the women's omnium, after completing the four tests agreed with discreet positions.
The Caribbean finished last in the scratch, eighth in the tempo race and repeated that same position in the elimination race. In the closing event of this test Aylena failed to accumulate units and ultimately ended up in the basement.
The Colombian Lina Marcela Hernández won the test, ahead of the Mexican Yareli Acevedo and the Argentine Maribel Roxana Aguirre.
Cuban judocas end in bronze

Although they could aspire to be in the final, the Cuban judo team finally finished with a decent bronze medal, after dominating the Venezuelan squad with a 4-1 balance.Although they could aspire to be in the final, the Cuban judo team finally finished with a decent bronze medal, after dominating the Venezuelan squad with a 4-1 balance.
 
For ours, Sergueis Rodríguez (90 kg), Thalía Nariño (+70 kg), Thailién Castillo (57 kg) and Kimy Bravo (73 kg) won.
 
#Cuba wins bronze in the #judo tournament for mixed teams of the Junior Pan American Games of # Cali2021 Statements by Thalía Nariño ... pic.twitter.com/50xS3gy3ig
 
- JIT Cuban Sports (@jit_digital) November 29, 2021
 
 
Before getting to this bronze discussion, the three men and three women from the Island began their journey with an easy 4-1 victory over Colombia, a performance that led them to the semifinals to face Brazil.
 
In that instance they got off to a good start after the two victories of Idelannis Gómez and Sergueis Rodríguez. However, favorites Thalía Nariño and Omar Cruz fell surprisingly. Then, Thailién Castillo put Cuba in front, but Kimy Bravo yielded to return to the tie.
 
In the tiebreaker match, Sergueis could not achieve his third victory against the Brazilian Victor Hugo da Silva.
 
#Cuba wins bronze in #judo tournament for mixed teams of the Junior Pan American Games of # Cali2021
Statements by Sergueis Rodríguez pic.twitter.com/zCuagpYHR7
 
- JIT Cuban Sports (@jit_digital) November 29, 2021 Weights:
 
Elizabeth Reyes surprises with bronze

After failing to finish among the first in the snatch mode, Cuban Elizabeth Reyes had an excellent clean and jerk and ultimately won the bronze medal in the 87 kg of weightlifting.
 
Our representative accumulated 222 kg, thanks to the 97 kg achieved in the first movement and the 125 kg of the clean and jerk, ahead of her were the Ecuadorian Bella Paredes (229 kg) and the Colombian Angie Paola Franco (225 kg).

Mientras, en los 109 kg Daniel Cabrera concluyó en la quinta plaza luego de totalizar 323 kg. El antillano concluyó se competencia con 141 kg en el arranque y 182 kg en el envión.

Meanwhile, in the 109 kg Daniel Cabrera finished in fifth place after totaling 323 kg.
 
The Antillean concluded the competition with 141 kg in the snatch and 182 kg in the clean and jerk. Among the seven registered the best was the local Luis Miguel Quiñones, faithful to the forecasts with a sum of 356 kg.
 
Silver went to Mexican Antonio José Govea (339 kg) and bronze to American Morgan McCullough (335 kg).
 
Two sixths in swimming

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