Cubans to fight in World Wrestling Championships

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 21 (acn) Cuba will attend the 2017 World Wrestling Championships starting today in Paris, France, with 10 athletes (five in each modality).

In Greco-Roman style, Cuba will be represented by only one athlete with experience in these contests, Miguel Martinez (66 kilograms), and the group is completed with Yurisandy Hernandez (75), Daniel Gregorich (85), Reiniel Diaz (98) and Oscar Pino (130).
Martinez competed at Las Vegas, United States, two years ago, but he lost in the first combat there.
Cubans Ismael Borrero (59) and Mijain Lopez (130), Rio 2016 Olympic champions; as well as Yasmany Lugo (98), silver medalist in that same event, did not attend this tournament by different reasons.
Borrero and Lugo are both recovering from recent injuries while Lopez, thrice Olympic monarch and five-time world champion, will be saved this time as a strategy of the Cuban Wrestling Federation.
For that reason, the wrestlers of the freestyle modality will have the greater responsibility to earn medals on French soil, led by Reineris Salas (97), twice runner-up in universal contests.
The freestyle squad also includes Livan Lopez (74), London 2012 Olympic bronze medalist and owner of three other world medals; Yowlis Bonne (61), third in Tashkent 2014 World Cup; Alejandro Valdes (65) and Yurieski Torreblanca (86).