BEIJING, China, Aug 20 (acn) Getting three or four medals is a possible aspiration for Cuban athletics that will definitely participate with 25 competitors in the 15th World Championship, which starts next Saturday in this city.
Daniel Osorio, Cuban head coach, announced today that forecast shortly before a brief training session with triple jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo on the track at just few meters of the majestic Bird's Nest.
I think that purpose is possible, but I will not put colors to the medals, he said.
In addition to Pichardo, leader of the ranking of the season with 18.08 meters, the delegation of the Caribbean island relies on pole vaulter Yarisley Silva and discus thrower Denia Caballero, also leaders of their specialties.
Silva, bronze medalist at the 2013 Moscow world cup, came to this city with record of 4.91 meters achieved in Germany earlier this month , and Caballero reached 70.65 meters in the Spanish city of Bilbao before the Pan American Games in Toronto 2015.
The also discus thrower Yaimé Pérez and Rose Mary Almanza (women's 800 meters) are others whose performances from January to date place them in the crosshairs of the followers of this sport.
On the general state of the rest of the delegation, Osorio acknowledged that they are getting adapted to the Chinese climate and hour and are getting ready to compete.
Cuba appears ninth in the historical table of these events, where it always got medals, and had its best performance with four gold medals in Athens 1997, but since Berlin 2009 fails to climb to the top of the podium.
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