The Cuban Carlos Daniel Ramos won this Sunday the gold medal in the men’s platform modality during the Panam Qualifying Championship of divingbased in the city of León, Mexico.
The diver signed an accumulated score of 515.30 points, the best mark of his life in this specialty, closing the Cuban performance in a contest that distributed tickets for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, according to the note from the sports portal Hit.
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The Mexicans dominated the contest with two gold and five silver medals. They were followed by the representatives of Canada (2-1-3) and #Cuba (1-0-3). #diving https://t.co/CNwd1SmMop pic.twitter.com/NODQUyk22J— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) February 27, 2023
Carlos Daniel added notes of 9.5 and 10 points throughout his presentation. Hit His execution of three and a half laps back (3.3 degrees of difficulty) stands out, which earned five notes of 10 points among the seven judges of the competition.
The capital diver, winner of the platform in the I Junior Pan American Games of Cali 2021 and finalist in the world competition of Budapest 2022 as a partner of Luis Gustavo Cañabate in the synchronized platform, he is on his way to becoming the main male figure of this sport in Cuba.
The Mexican José Diego Balleza (484.85) and the Canadian Nathan Zsombor-Murray (473.50) occupied the remaining places on the podium, while the Cuban Jesús Rodríguez (364.40) finished in seventh place, according to this report.
In the final day there was also action on the springboard from three meters for women, but without Cuban leadership, as Anisley García and Prisis Leidy Ruiz were left out of the distribution of medals.
Anisley ranked sixth with 271.90 points and her partner followed her up the ladder with 241.90. The Canadians Pamela Ware (333.75) and Margo Erlam (304.40) monopolized the gold and bronze medals, in that order, with the Mexican Arantxa Chávez (327.60) installed on the intermediate step of the podium.
Cuba closed their performance with a scepter and three bronze medals: Anisley’s on the platform, Laydel Domínguez’s on the springboard from three meters and Prisis Leidy’s from one meter. Ahead were the representations of Mexico (2 gold and 5 silver) and Canada (2 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze).
Although we will have to wait for the officialization of the places, Cuba has secure quotas in all the modalities, points out Hit. In addition, these results provided points for the ranking that will govern the distribution of tickets for the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador 2023.
