A total of 21 athletes born in Cuba will be spread across eight sports to compete on the next day of the Tokyo Olympic Games, who will welcome athletics.
Below you will find details of the island participation.
Athletics
8:15 pm
Luis Enrique Zayas will be in group A of the classification heading to the high jump final. The registration list groups 33 figures, 14 of them with personal bests higher than that of the 24-year-old Santiago native (2.33 meters).
9:55 pm
Rose Mary Almanza will run in the 800 meter eliminatory heat 5. This month, the woman from Camagüey achieved her distance limit (1:56.28 minutes) at the Stockholm stop of the Diamond League, a time that only one of the participants – the young American Athing Mu – has been able to lower in the campaign.
6:05 am
Leyanis Perez (14.53 meters personal best) will compete in the A qualifying bracket of the women's triple jump, and her teammates Davisleydi Velazco (14.34 m) and Liadagmis Povea (14.93 m) will try to get tickets for the B. Tokyo, a jump similar to the one mentioned above - the third most brilliant of the season -, Povea from Pinar del Río will be in the fight for a place on the podium, although the gold seems to have been decided in advance in favor of the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas.
Boxing
Three Antillean Olympic champions will make their second appearances at the Tokyo event.
5:30 am
Roniel Iglesias (69 kg) will fight with the North American Delante Johnson, who has two victories and was bronze in Lima.
6:00 am
Arlen Lopez (81 kg) will face the tall Mexican Rogelio Romero, another tan in the continental competition in the Peruvian capital.
6:50 am
Julio Cesar La Cruz (91 kg) will cross gloves with Enmanuel Reyes Pla, a Cuban nationalized from Spain who has just shown his strength against the Kazakh Vassily Levit, silver in Rio 2016 and two-time world medalist.
Judo
10:20 pm (aprox)
Andy Granda (+100 kg) will battle against Temur Rakhimov, from Tajikistan, in a men's duel with discreet results.
11:00 pm (aprox)
Idalys Ortiz (+78 kg) will debut in the round of 16 against the winner between the Portuguese Rochele Nunes – twice tanned at the European level – and the Puerto Rican Melissa Mojica, 37 years old. Neither of the two should be too complicated for the Cuban, who has won gold, silver and bronze in jousts under the five rings.
Sport's shot
8:00 pm
Laina Pérez – who is in 15th position in the middle of the 25 meter pistol test – will seek to sneak into the top eight to advance to the final.
Volleyball
10:00 pm
Yoandy Leal will form ranks in Brazil, which will try to get even with the United States for the blow it received against Russia.
1:20 am
Wilfredo Leon World champion Poland will line up, which will have a presumably quiet commitment against Japan.
6:40 am
Osmany Juantorena will once again lead the way for an Italy that should not trust the rising formation of Iran.
Handball
6:30 am
The CubansDaymaro Salina, Victor Iturriza andAlexis Borges They will do the rest for the cause of Portugal in the very complicated challenge against Denmark, current monarch of the world and Olympian.
Fencing
9:00 pm
Yeisser Ramirez, a man from Guantanamo living in the United States, will be part of that country's squad to face Japan at the start of the team epee competition.
Beach volleyball
7:00 am (Cuba time)
Lidianny Echevarría andLeila Martinez They will go to their third outing and in search of their first success, after failing against the Australian and Russian pairs by equal scores of two sets to zero. Now they will face the Italians Marta Menegatti and Viktoria Orsi, who also came out through the narrow door against the aforementioned couples.
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