Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana. Jun 10th. - With two very renovated teams will face the Cubans the Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championship, which from Tuesday will have its first actions in Panama City.
The gold medalist at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador 2023 Diorges Escobar and Yohendri Villaverde are the "veterans" of a male cast that also includes Alexander Sánchez, Argenis Casteñeda and Darian Rodríguez.
As a team the men have not competed since 2023, however the national commissioner Pedro Pablo Barrios considered that a preparation has been achieved that will allow to achieve the main objective with which they now face the appointment in the island capital: classification to the Central American and Caribbean Games of Santo Domingo 2026.
Are eight tickets to be distributed by teams at each sex. "Of course taking into account the countries of the region, and that is why we believe that it is a possible goal, especially in men," the manager told JIT, hours before embarking on the trip.
"Among the girls it's a little more complicated, because they're just out of the youth ranks and they'll have to do very well," he explained.
Keyla Leyva, winner of the recent national selective, Gélidis Reginfo, Maykelis Rivero, Danny Roll make up the squad that on Wednesday will face its first test of fire with the exercise of Podium.
A day earlier it will be the men who will teach their selections as a preamble to the competitive segment planned for the start-up on Thursday 12 with the competitions for maximum accumulation by teams.
A new scoring code will be released, which favors us because our programs are high the difficulty of the elements, Barrios said, although it is clear that it will be essential not to make mistakes in executions.
The all-round between women is expected to be all around and between 14 and 15 there will be individual finals disputes.
According to the announcements from the headquarters at the Figali Convention Center of Amador, competitors from 24 countries will meet and as a novelty the platform on which the devices are based is high, in a similar way to the main world events. (Text and Photo: Cubasí)
