The Cuban softball playerDiamela Puente Salas, a member of the island team that attended the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, died this Saturday night as a result of a heart attack.
“Today the Cuban sports movement is dressed in mourning as it suffers the loss of the tremendous athlete, best human being, good daughter, good mother and wife,” described the photographer from the Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) in Santiago de Cuba,Alejandro Floro Cebreco Duvergel.
The outstanding athlete was 43 years old when she died.. He was a native of Palma Soriano, where he was born on January 5, 1981.
Another post on Facebook that also lamented the physical departure of this Cuban shortstop, a member of the national teams for more than 20 years and part of the team that competed in the Olympic Games for the first and only time, drew attention to the importance of detraining the Cuban athletes.
He had retired from the sport during the Covid-19 period, at a time when he was approaching 40 years of age.
Mother of a child, the player had two bronze medals in her record at the Pan American Games, obtained in Winnipeg, 1999 and Guadalajara, 2011. In addition to four medals in the Central American and Caribbean Games: divided into gold in Maracaibo, 1998; silver in Cartagena de Indias, 2006 and Barranquilla 2018, and bronze in Veracruz, 2014.
Its international participation also included three World Cups, in which Cuba placed ninth in 2010, based in Caracas, Venezuela; 12th place in 2012, in Whitehorse, Canada; and position 16 in 2016, based in Surrey, Canada.
In the so-called World Games held in 2013 in Cali, Colombia, the athlete had another brilliant season as she was one of the protagonists of the gold medal achieved by Cuba.
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