For: Yunier Javier Sifonte Díaz
The Cuban judo closed this weekend with other good acting in the world circuit and it finished in the fourth position of the Grand Prix of Antalya, a performance that allowed him to head to the ten countries of America inscribed in the tournament.
To the gold gotten yesterday for Maylín of the Bull, this Sunday the silver was added won by Kaliema Antomarchi in the 78kg, a yield that consolidates them to both in the one on the way to the olympic classification. Today alone Kaliema fell in the final one before the German Anna-María Wagner, a rival that has overcome it in its two combats of this year.
To arrive to the discussion of the title, the Creole before had perfect performance of three on-line victories. First it overcame for ippon to the mongola Erdenet-Od Batbayar, it stops then to be imposed the American Nefeli Papadakis and in semifinals to the Portuguese Patricia Sampaio.
Although in two of their three cases Kaliema received even of penalizaciones that put it on the edge of the disqualification, he/she always knew how to take the rhythm of the combats. The podium in that division the Ukrainian Anastasiya completed it Turchyn and the German Luise Malzahn.
Meanwhile, the world subcampeón Iván Felipe Silva could not emulate its gold of one week ago in Tbilisi and in eighth of end he/she fell in front of the Turkish Mikail Ozerler, a judoca had born for two years in Eslovenia and planetary subtitular in Budapest. Although the combat extended until the rule of gold, the Antillean received a wazari that he left it without options.
Such its rival’s push that in definitive the gold was taken in the division was, when defeating the Georgian Giorgi Papunashvili. The brasses distributed it to him Komronshokh Ustopiriyon and twice as much world medallista Avtandili Tchkirishvili.
Although the tournament didn’t have the main figures of France in the feminine sector and with any representative of the potent Japanese team, this it was one of the most even competitions in the current season. In fact, no nation was able to bend in medals of gold.
For before Cuba (1-1-0) alone they were Georgia (1-2-2), Azerbaiján (1-1-2) and Kazajastán (1-1-0). Of America the other ones better located they were the group of Brazil (0-3-1) in the position 15 and Canada (0-0-1) in the position 25.
The next commitment of the Cuban judo will be in the Pan-American Championship of Lima at the end of April. Next to the valuable points that it grants for the world ranking, the appointment will be an ideal option to measure face potentialities to the event multideportivo that will welcome the Peruvian capital by the middle of year.
According to the official page of the event, up to now Cuba inscribed 17 competitors, liderados for the world medallistas Iván Silva and José Armenteros (100kg), although others also appear with potentialities like Magdiel Estrada (73kg) and Andy Granda (+100kg).
Among the ladies, the team heads it the triple olympic medallista Idalys Ortiz (+78kg), wide favorite to get its title number 16 in continental tournaments. Next to her, they will also be other favorite ones as Maylín of the Bull (63kg) and Kaliema Antomarchi (78kg). nevertheless, after the results of the national tournaments in both sexes, the definitive payrolls could suffer changes.