Cuba has already qualified 81 athletes for the II Junior Pan American Games of Asunción 2025. A multi-sport event endowed with 216 quotas for the Lima 2027 Pan American Games. As reported by José Antonio Miranda, general director of high performance of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder).
In the meeting with the media, he said that there are 507 competitors preselected by the largest of the Antilles. Whose delegation could exceed the 212 presented in the founding edition.
Miranda confirmed that in the Paraguayan competition scheduled from August 9 to 23 there will be 216 direct tickets at stake for the continental competition. Lima 2027, of which 200 will come from individual sports and 16 from collective sports. As agreed during the most recent meeting of the heads of sport.
Regarding the upcoming qualifiers for Asunción in which Cuba will attend. Also it was reported that from April 3 to 6, the fights will seek places in Querétaro, Mexico. They will also participate in qualifiers in Colombia. Open water, diving, swimming and artistic swimming, all indistinctly, from May 13 to 23.
The Junior Pan American Games in the Paraguayan capital will evaluate the sports reserve for the 2028 and 2032 Olympic cycles. It will also allow the detection of athletes with the potential to participate in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games,” Miranda said.
In addition, he recalled that it will be the first multi-sport event of the four-year period. And will be faced in the midst of the implementation of a strategy conceived from science and checked by the country’s leadership. As an expression of the priority assigned to this sector.
Futhermore Miranda said that the strategy seeks to improve the sports selection system. Taking into account the characteristics of the athletic population, promoting all areas of the country.
In conclusion it also allows an optimal assurance of the infrastructure and the necessary logistical supports. To make High Performance Sport sustainable.
With information from Agencia Cubana de Noticias Translated by Radio Angulo
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