The cuban wrestlers Laura Herin and Milaymis de la Caridad Marín yielded this Tuesday before being able to advance to the semifinals and gave continuity to the discreet results that Cuba has achieved so far in the Belgrade 2022 World Wrestling Championship, in Serbian.
Herin, double continental title holder among juveniles and queen of the I Junior Pan American Games of Cali 2021, advanced to the quarterfinals in the 53 kilograms, but lost in that instance by 5-7 against the experienced Greek María Prevolaraki, third place in the global competition of Paris 2017 and current European runner-up, in accordance with the sports portal Hit.
In the qualifying round, the Cuban had surpassed the Ukrainian Liliia Malanchuk due to technical superiority and in the round of 16 she did the same against the Canadian Samantha Leigh Stewart, bronze medalist in the previous world event, adds the publication.
However, after losing to Prevolaraki, her hopes of advancing to the play-offs were dashed when the Greek lost to American Dominique Olivia Parrish in the semifinals, with a close score of 3-1.
Laura Herin reached the quarterfinals in World Fighting
She lost 5-7 to the experienced Greek María Prevolaraki, third place in the global competition in Paris 2017 and current runner-up in Europe. #Cuba #wrestling https://t.co/LUS1EAndMy pic.twitter.com/IdMLFbGMwk— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) September 13, 2022
Meanwhile, Milaymis, youth Olympic queen in Buenos Aires 2018 and junior and under-23 world champion a year later, won her first fight in the 76 kg against the South Korean Seoyeon Jeong, with a score of 5-1. But, already in the round of 16, she lost 1-11 to the Ukrainian Anastasiia Osniach Shustova, who did not pass the quarter round, details the specialized media.
In this way, the performance of the Cuban women in the fight concluded, which began this Monday with Yaynelis Sanz in the 55-kilogram category, who lost her debut in the round of 16 phase.
Since the 2018 edition in Budapest, when Lianna de la Caridad Montero won the bronze medal in that same division, Cuban women’s wrestling has not won a medal in universal competitions, recalls Hit.
Also discreet were the performances of the island gladiators in the classic style, because not even the Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, Luis Orta, was able to reach the podium now competing in the top 63 kilogram division.
Oscar Pino (130 kg) and Daniel Grégorich (87 kg) could not attend this planetary event because they fell ill with dengue shortly before traveling to Serbia, nor Gabriel Rosillo (97 kg) because he was recovering from surgery in a of his knees.
In addition, the Olympic monarch of Rio de Janeiro 2016, Ismael Borrero, left the Cuban team at the beginning of last May, prior to his participation in the Pan American Championship based in Mexico, and then settled in the United States.
For his part, the four-time Olympic champion Mijain Lopezlegend of this sport, is present in Belgrade only with the aim of observing his main rivals ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
This Wednesday the event for ladies will conclude and a day later the freestyle actions will begin, in which, according to Hitthe Cubans Reineris Andreu (57 kg), Alejandro Valdés (65 kg), Franklin Marén (74 kg), Yurieski Torreblanca (86 kg) and Reineris Salas (125 kg) will perform.
