The double medalist of the Junior Pan American Games, Luis Gustavo Cañabate, “suffered an accident due to a fall” early this Saturday at the Giraldo Córdova Cardín Higher Training School for High-Performance Athletes (Esfaar), published Hit. According to him official mediathe athlete “is reported as critically ill, but remains conscious.”
The publication does not offer more details about the Cañabate accident. It has been other journalists who have provided data that have opened the controversy about what happened. The newspaper reporter AheadFelix Anazco Ramos indicated on his Facebook account that the athlete “accidentally fell from a third floor at dawn this Friday” and not on Saturday as the official version indicated.
Luis Gustavo Cañabate was initially transferred to the Luis Díaz Soto Central Military Hospital (Naval) and it was there that it was decided to transfer him to the pediatric hospital
The portal Full Swing disclosed that the athlete “ jumped from a third floorpresumably asleep.” The version, he clarified, could not be confirmed by the relatives of the medalist, who “went to the Juan Manuel Márquez Teaching Pediatric Hospital to follow his evolution.”
Luis Gustavo Cañabate was initially transferred to the Luis Díaz Soto Central Military Hospital (Naval) and it was there that it was decided to transfer him to the pediatric hospital.
De Cañabate stands out for the sixth place he won together with Carlos Daniel Ramos in the 10-meter synchronized platform, at the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, last June.
“In December 2021, he had won a gold and a silver medal at the Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia,” he recalled. Full Swing. The 19-year-old native of Camagüey “is recognized as one of the great promises of ornamental jumps in Cuba.”
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