Cuba will participate in pre-Olympic tournament archery
- Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
- Sports
- 04 / 16 / 2012
From 20 to 24 April will be held in pre-Olympic tournament Colombia archery done the Cuban team will compete in the qualifying for London 2012, said Angel Sanchez, national commissioner of the sport.
Speaking to the National Information Agency, Sanchez said that Juan Carlos Stevens, fifth Olympics in Beijing 2008 will be the main candidate set to get your ticket to the Olympics in London from July 27 to August 12.
Together with the experienced Stevens, recurve specialist, integrate the campus Maydenia Sarduy, Larissa Pagan and Hugo Franco, bronze medalists at the Pan American Games squads of Guadalajara-2011. The South American fair deal three places for each sex in the Olympic round individual and no repetition of countries, so that in case of coincidence sites are run.
According to Sanchez, men are likely to meet the primary objective of the competition, because they face the representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico, classified in the last World Cup in Italy-2011.
He stressed that, for women, there will be a difficult matchup because of the high level participants from Mexico, Canada, Venezuela and the host country.
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