Madrid Spain.- Cuban javelin thrower Osleidys Menéndez, 2004 Athens Olympic champion, arrived in the United States this Sunday after crossing the Mexican border.
The news was released by the sports media Full Swing and confirmed by Cubans around the world.
According to Cubans around the worldMenéndez, also two-time world champion in Edmonton 2001 and Helsinki 2005, had begun her migratory route from Nicaragua.
The 42-year-old from Matanzas won her first medals in the National School Games.
At the age of 16, he won the gold medal in the World Championship in his category held in Sydney, with a throw of 60.96 meters.
Known as “the Antillean dart” and “the ebony goddess”, she reached silver at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Maracaibo 1998 and Cartagena de Indias 2006.
In Winnipeg 1999 and Rio de Janeiro 2007 she was crowned Pan American champion.
During the last few months there have been several Cuban athletes who have decided to leave Cuba. Last week it emerged that boxer Andy Cruz, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, had left the country and was in the Dominican Republic. At the beginning of this month he left the Island, also for the Dominican Republic, the young pitcher Luis Lazaro Echezabal who had debuted with the Industriales team in the 2022 National Baseball Series.
The sprinter and national record holder of the 100 meters in the youth category, Jenns Fernández, left the national delegation of athletics last May when he arrived in Spain, where he would train with views of the I Guadeloupe 2022 Caribbean Games.
Last March the boxers Kevin Brown (67 kg) and Herich Ruiz (86 kg) left the national delegation during the Continental Championship held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Herich Ruiz, bronze in the 2021 Boxing World Cup, left the tournament shortly after the weigh-in for his fight against the American Arjan Iseni, with whom he would seek a place in the final. For his part, Kevin Brown did not arrive at the competition, but took advantage of a stopover at the Tocumen airport, Panama, to separate from the team.
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