2024-06-08 07:38:39
Textual content: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
Foto: RL Hevia
With out a lot fanfare, center distance runner Rose Mary Almanza has been in a position to make a reputation for herself in Cuban athletics over the past three a long time. In contrast to many different figures who’ve managed to place the Caribbean island on the medal desk within the Olympic Video games and World Championships, the prize for the Camagüeyan has been perseverance.
After all, any athlete’s foremost aspiration is to get on the rostrum and it isn’t that she has by no means achieved it. Her silver medal, for instance, within the 800 meters on the Lima 2019 Pan American Video games attests to this. However in sports activities, and way more so in a single like athletics, profitable a medal shouldn’t be the one synonym of success.
There are those that handle to the touch the glory underneath the 5 rings, hear their nation’s nationwide anthem resound all through the stadium, however by no means handle to expertise one thing like this once more. And that’s when the now veteran runner, about to show 32 years outdated, can proudly say that she is about to stay such an expertise for the fourth time in her profession, after just lately acquiring her classification at Paris 2024.
Almanza licensed his passport to the French capital this Sunday on the Forbach Athletic Assembly, in France by profitable the double lap of the oval with a time of 1:58.89 minutes, his greatest time of the season. On this approach, she lowered the mark required by World Athletics of 1:59.92 and have become the seventh consultant of island athletics to make sure her presence in Paris, in addition to the quantity 37 to hitch the Cuban delegation to the nice occasion.
Every day Cooper, additionally from Camagüey, was only one hundredth of a second away from the minimal degree, ending third in the identical Almanza take a look at with a time of 1:59.92. That is one other runner who within the close to future might obtain her ticket, like Sahily Diago from Matanzas, distance monarch within the final Pan American Video games in Santiago de Chile 2023.
Among the many different candidates from the Caribbean island in search of qualification for the “Metropolis of Mild” within the so-called “king sport”, is the lengthy jumper Juan Miguel Echevarría. After months away from the media highlight, the sub-headline of the Tokyo 2021 Video games just lately started coaching underneath the orders of fellow Cuban Iván Pedroso and introduced that he’ll go for the Olympic ticket representing Cuba.
Earlier than the Plaza de Rose Mary Almanza, Antillean athletics had solely six exponents secured in Paris, 4 of them representatives of the triple soar: Leyanis Martínez and Liadagmis Povea within the case of girls and Lázaro Martínez and Christián Nápoles within the case of the boys. males. That quartet was accompanied by Roxana Martínez (400 meter sprint) and excessive jumper Luis Enrique Zayas.