Havana. – THE CAPITAL will take place its 500 years of having been founded with a reason more to be proud: the athletes of the county reigned in the 55 National School Games that today had closing in the Room Hazel grove, of the National Theater here.
More than eight thousand athletes they struggled for holding in 31 and 11 disciplines summoned for the scholars and juvenile, respectively.
Those of the main Cuban city dominated from the same beginning with Santiago from Cuba and Villa Clara of escorts in the podium of premiaciones of a contest dedicated to the anniversaries 500 of the establishment of the Villa of San Cristóbal from Havana and 66 of the assaults to the barracks of Bayamo and Guillermón Moncada again, of Santiago from Cuba.
Individually the Havanan Claudia Navarrese Gurri was the best among school when winning 12 medals of gold, 10 singular and two in reliefs, and among juvenile the phenomenon of the jump its coterráneo Jordan Díaz who imposed national record and it was to a centimeter of the World cup for its category.
The swimmer Gurri participated in the Central American Games and of the Caribbean of Swimming (CCCAN) and the triplista Díaz who will compete in the Games Panamericanura and sport of the central committee you of Lima 2019 from the 26 coming, it already classified for the Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020.
At once they were also rewarded outstanding competitors in varied categories, included that of discapacitados, as well as honors professors, trainers and judges received for their acting.
The School of Sport Initiation of Guantánamo was the vanguard of its type, and the headquarters more outstanding Blind man of Ávila, Villa Clara and Sancti Spíritus.
Moving moment of the veiled one was the recognition to the founders of the Games, among them the of the capital José Thin Manuel, Felipe Farmer and Lorenzo Martínez, the holguinero Mariano Massó, the mayabequense Luisa Trinidad Pérez and the granmense Enrique Laguardia.
Ramón Pepper, national director of School Sport, when giving to know the verdict of the edition highlighted the successful development of the contest like confirmation that it constitutes quarry of the high yield and it forges of the medals of the immediate future.
Of the participant athletes 336 Turquino came from the plan, 809 represented Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Islands Caucos, Colombia, Jamaica, Republic Of the Dominican Republic, Bearded, Peru, Puerto Rico and United States, said Pepper.
In moving address the president of Pioneer José’s Organization Martí, Rosa María Ramírez Montero, congratulated the winners after exposing that today’s champions is continuity of a work begun by the generation of the centennial that took at most committed with the homeland to make a Revolution, example of social justice.
They presided over the closing act Jorge Luis Fastener, vice boss of the education commission, culture and sport of the Central Committee of the Party, Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, minister of Education, and Raúl Fornés, first vice-president of the Inder, among other who next to glories of the sport, in their majority olympic and world champions, they had to well to give the prizes accompanied by flowers to the winners.
The veiled one was decorated by young talents that secured the sport concept and art like big conquests of the Cuban contemporary society.
Havana repeats reign in National School Games Villa Clara will organize the next edition.
