The Cuban sport celebrated its great representatives during the last 12 months and did it this Thursday at the Glauber Rocha hall, headquarters of the Foundation of the New Latin American Cinema.
As part of the 2022 best athletes award gala, canoeist Yarisleidis Cirilo and judoka Andy Granda, both world champions this year, were recognized as the best at the individual level, and in unconventional sport, Suslaidy Girat (athletics), Sheyla Samarian (judo) and Robiel Yankiel Sol (athletics).
Kirilo thanked "everyone for giving us this vote of confidence and helping us to get that medal and results. In addition, he said, I want to congratulate the educators and tell them that in the future we will continue to bring medals."
The outstanding athletes in the sport also had their special moment, among whom were Arlenis Sierra (cycling), Leuris Pupo (sports shooting), Katherine Nuevo (boating), Serguey Torres (boating), Julio César La Cruz (boxing), Iván Silva (judo), Idalys Ortiz (judo), Lázaro Martínez (athletics), Daniela Darriba (Basque pelota) and Carlos Daniel Albornoz (chess). And among the unconventional Leinier Savón (athletics), Ulises Aguilera (athletics), Guillermo Varona (athletics), Dalidayvis Rodríguez (judo), Juan Manuel Romero (judo), Yunier Fernández (table tennis), Leydi Rodríguez (weights), Manuel Alejandro del Rosario (badminton) and Laura Beatriz Yánez (badminton).
Among the groups, the boys of the béisbol5 received their award, monarchs in the first appointment of the world of this modality, in addition to volleyball and softball. Likewise, the canoeing and judo took the palms, the latter two decorated as the best individual sports.
Niurkis Mora, Jesús Herrera and Alain Román were the most outstanding representatives in the group disciplines, while Cirilo herself along with Katherin Nuevo were recognized as the non-individual event, a category in which the diving duo of Luis Gustavo Cañabate and Carlos Daniel Ramos received a mention.
There was applause for the best contracted athletes and the referees, lists that this year included Arlenis Sierra (cycling), Miguel Ángel López (volleyball) and Raidel Martínez (baseball), on the one hand, and Jorge Luis Vega (athletics, best national) and Yunior Sosa (wrestling, best international), on the other.
The gala was chaired by Jorge Luis Perdomo Di Lella, vice prime minister; Osvaldo Vento Montiller, president of Inder, and Roberto León Richard, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee, among others.
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