HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 24 (acn) Cuban Maylin del Toro, Ljubljana 2013 bronze medalist, will try to repeat her performance today in the third day of the World Junior Judo Championships at the Broward County Covention Center, in Fort Lauderdale, United States.
After two days without winning medals, Cuba's main trump cards today are Del Toro (63 kilograms), as well as Ivan Silva (81 kilos), bronze medalist in the Olympic Youth Games in Nanjing, China, in 2014.
The other Cuban competing today is the international debutant Nairelis Fuentes (70).
According to the website of the tournament, Del Toro will fight in the first preliminary round against Croatian Buga Kovac, while Silva shall face the winner of the combat between Kazakh Salamat Zhurkabayev and Japanese Sendai Sato.
Meanwhile, Fuentes´ rival will be the Dutch Evelien Berudsen.
Japan leads the individual competition with four gold, three silver and one bronze medals, followed by France (1-1-1), Russia (1-0-1), South Korea (1-0-1 ) and Spain (1-0-0), only nations with gold medals so far.
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