2024-04-11 16:13:57
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Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
In the coming days, the Cuban boxing team will make its first international appearance in 2021 in a year that began with the same uncertainty, or worse.
The Antillean boxers will receive at home for a joint training base boxers from Kazakhstan who are preparing for the Tokyo Olympic Games, postponed last year and whose fate remains uncertain for next summer.
Kazakhstan won the Olympic tournament four years ago in Rio de Janeiro with three gold, two silver and two bronze medals.
Cuba also won three titles in that competition through Julio César La Cruz, Arlen López and Robeisy Ramírez. With the exception of Ramírez who defected in Mexico in 2018, the other champions remain in the preselection, which currently has 40 members.
Kazakhstan intends to star alongside Cuba in the rivalry and will not only send its fighters to Havana. Four of their main medal hopes, heavyweight Vassiliy Levit, super heavyweight Kamshybek Kunkabayev, lightweight Zakir Safiullin and light middleweight Bekzad Nurdauletov have traveled to Miami to train there with local professionals and it is not ruled out that they will cross gloves with former Cubans. national teams.
As he knew Cuba News 360a total of 16 boxers in two teams will be the Kazakh delegation in Havana, which includes welterweight Ablaikhan Zhussupov, two-time world bronze medalist in the welterweight division, and Abilkhan Amankul, world runner-up in middleweight.
Kazakhstan has nine qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. Cuba hopes to qualify in the 8 categories of the men’s sector in the Olympic qualifiers next May at a venue yet to be defined. If he fails to complete his prediction, he will have another chance in June in the last world qualifier in Paris.