HOLGUIN, Cuba, Jun 26 (ACN) The province of Holguin will be represented at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games to be held in Barranquilla, Colombia with 25 athletes among them Olympic medalists, Leuris Pupo in sports shooting and Leonel Suarez in decathlon.
In addition to Pan American Weightlifting Champ Victor Quinones in the 94 kilo division.
Other names from Holguin are Beach volleyball, Sergio Gonzalez who is part of the Cuban pair that finished fourth at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and rower, which has already qualified for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Alexei Carballosa.
Softball player Maylin Sanchez considered by many the best in the discipline in Cuba and Badminton star Taymara Oropesa, outstanding athlete in Holguin in 2017 in the individual classification.
The other athletes are Lisa Maria Salomon (pole vault); Angel Herrera (badminton); Noelvis Robles and Angel Jesus Rivero (handball); Yordan Manduley (baseball); Alejandro Parra (cycling); Daylen Cristina Moreno and Humberto Aguilera (fencing).
Calixto Gonzalez, journalist and historian from Semanario Ahora mentioned that only at the 1993 Ponce Games were the number of participants from the eastern province higher with 27.
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