AREQUIPA, Peru – World record holder and Cuban Paralympic champion from Tokyo 2020, Omara Durand, will compete this Monday as a favorite in one of the two semifinals of the 400 meters flat (T12) of the para-athletics tournament of the XVII edition of the Paralympic Games in Paris 2024.
According to the information provided by the Cuban News Agencythe Santiago native will be looking for the medal discussion with everything in her favor, despite finishing first in the third qualifying series, a position that should have guaranteed her direct advancement to the final as indicated at that time by the Games website.
In the qualifying round, Omara and her guide Junior Kindelán won easily with a time of 55.36 seconds, and will now share lanes with the Brazilian Ketyla Teodoro (57.88), the Ukrainian Oksava Boturchuk (57.33) and the Russian Ana Kulinich Sorokina (57.26), who competes for the independent team.
In the other semi-final, the Brazilian Clara Daniele Barros Da Silva (57.73), the Venezuelan Alejandra Paola Pérez (56.97), the Iranian Hlayar Safar Zadeh (56.34) and the Italian Valentina Pretrillo (58.33) will be on the starting line.
According to the site, the top two and the two best second-place finishers will advance to the final on Tuesday.
The other two Cubans in competition On September 2, the following were left out of the finals: para-swimmer Josjaniel Hernández (S7) in the 400-meter freestyle, who finished fifth in his qualifying heat, at the Arena La Defensa, and para-shooter Yanisgladis Suárez, twenty-fourth in P3-pistol at 25 meters, at the Chneaux Shooting Center,
With this result, Yanisgladys was unable to improve on the 14th place she achieved in the 10-metre air pistol competition the previous day.
Last Sunday, the Cienfuegos sprinterYamel Luis Vives won the silver medal in the 100-meter dash, T44 category, with a time of 11.20 seconds.
With this result, Vives provided the first medal for the Cuban delegation at the sporting event, which means that there are still nine more to go to meet the forecast of the Cuban regime authorities.
