The members of the national preselection Jorge Soto (80 kilograms) and Jairo Munive (67) lead the boxing team from the province of Holguín that, from the 9th to the 14th of January, will participate in the Playa Girón National Boxing Tournament in the city of Sancti Spiritus.
Soto and Munive, bronze medslists in the “Girón” of 2022, grabbed the crown last December in a tournament held in Kazakhstan, and have become the main aspirations of the group of seven from Holguín that will seek to improve the seventh place of the previous tournament.
The list is completed with the medalists from the previous edition Carlos Pérez (81 kg, silver) and Ramón Daniel de la Torres Lores (92 Kg, bronze), in addition to Darwin Torres (48 kg), Malioski Betancourt (60kg), Marcos David Cobas (69 Kg), and Carlos Aguilera (86kg), all under the guidance of Aroldis Revé, Oscar Revé and Eric Blanco.
The Holguín representation included for the first time three women, Aileannis Céspedes (52 Kg), Adriana Melissa Ramos (60 Kg) and Catheen González (75 Kg), led by Gerardo Deroncelet.
The competition will take place in double programs (10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.), until the quarterfinal stage.
The bouts for the place to the final and the discussions of the gold medals will be in the morning, in all cases at Yayabo Sports Center.
The main incentive of the Playa Girón National Boxing Tournament is the formation of the national preselection from which the Cuban representatives will come for the pre-Olympic next March in Italy, to which our country will seek the four remaining tickets for the men’s event.
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