Havana, Feb 3rd. - The Cuban beach duo of Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo will face in 2025 a first-class program that includes three Challengers and Two Elite 16, with their sights set in the Adelaide World Championship in Australia.
They won to participate, in this order, the Challenger of Yucatan, Mexico, since March 23, Elite 16 of Quintana Roo, Mexico (27 March), Challenger de Veracruz, Mexico (3 April), Challenger de Saquarema, Brazil (11 April) and Elite 16 from Brasilia, Brazil (17 April).
To all those contests must be added others, as by the end of the year they will have the World Cup in Adelaide, specifically from November 14-23.
After an outstanding performance at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, despite not getting a medal, the main binomial of the largest of the Antilles, first managed to qualify for the Parisian multi-sport event and finished in the meritorious ninth place to close in eighth place in the orb ranking.
Alayo retained the status of best in collective sports and Díaz was among the top 10 in the annual survey of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, and the specialized press of Cuba.
The silver medalists at the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile and the Central American and Caribbean of San Salvador, both of which were held in 2023, held good performances in the World Tour, precisely those that guaranteed them, among others, the Olympic ticket.
In the period before Paris 2024, they obtained silver medals in the challenges of Recife and Saquarema, both in Brazil, and in Stare Jablonki, Poland, as well as bronze in the elite tournament in Tepic, Mexico, considered the top level of the prestigious beach volleyball circuit.
They also contributed with qualifying points, the fourth place in the Guadalajara Challenge and ninth in the Challenge of Xiamen, and the bronze achieved in the final of the circuit of North, Central America and the Caribbean (Norceca) of 2024.
The display in the Parisian lid, where the favorites of the United States and Brazil, fourth and second places of the RM, in that order, can be described as sensational as the Parisian lid, in their group, to close out of undefeated leaders, but then fell 1-2 to the Swedish duo, who then became Olympic champion to retain the first rung of the list on the planet.
That setback left him in ninth place, but with golden edges recognized by specialists and the hobby that applauded him with delirium on each of his exits to the court near the Eiffel Tower.
But that was not all, as in their last competitive action they were for the second consecutive year in Russia's strong national championship, with the first place in the Kazan phase and fifth place in the Anapa final. (Text: ACN) (Photo: Archive)