Cuba increases Olympic quotas after spectacular performances by sprinters in Salamanca, Spain.

Cuba increased to 41 its number of athletes qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, following the magnificent performances of sprinters Shainer Reginfo and Reinaldo Espinosa at the 2024 Salamanca City Athletics Trophy in Spain.

Reginfo and Espinosa achieved a one-two finish in the 100-meter race, with times of 9.90 and 9.96 seconds, respectively, to break the old national record of 9.98, held by the legendary Silvio Leonard (1977), silver in Moscow 1980, and Roberto Skyers (2019), Pan American champion in the 200 meters in Toronto 2015.

Now on Iberian soil, both runners surpassed the minimum mark (10.00) required by World Athletics and placed among the top positions in the world ranking for the current season, an extremely positive news.

The brand new owner of the estate, Reginfo, celebrated the outcome on Facebook: "Thank you very much for all the lovely messages you have left me. My summer tour is not over yet. I want to arrive in Paris in a better condition, I have taken a huge step in my life, now all that's left is to maintain and improve."

The largest of the Antilles continues to accumulate tickets for the competition on French soil, as in recent days the 800-meter runner Rose Mary Almanza, table tennis player Moisés Campos, and boxer Erislandy Álvarez achieved the goal.

With the multi-award-winning wrestler Mijaín López as the standard-bearer, Cuba aspires to win five gold medals in Paris 2024, from July 26 to August 11, and finish among the top 25 nations in the final standings table.

At a press conference held at the Coliseum of the Ciudad Deportiva in Havana, José Antonio Miranda, director of High Performance at the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation, stated: "We have conducted the analysis and we are aware that those objectives must be achieved."

Miranda commented that "the biggest responsibility of winning medals rests on 19 figures," including monarchs under the five rings like the aforementioned Greco-Roman wrestler López and his counterpart Luis Orta, boxers Julio César La Cruz and Arlen López, and judoka Idalys Ortiz, not to mention the cachet of shooter Leuris Pupo.

Three years ago, in the Tokyo 2020 program, Cuba concluded in the fourteenth position on the leaderboard, with seven gold medals, three silver medals, and five bronze medals.