Cuban wrestler Mijaín López is looking for his fifth gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
AREQUIPA, Peru – Cuban wrestler Mijaín López is looking for his fifth gold medal at the Olympic Games after reaching the semi-finals after beat Amin Mirzazadehrepresentative of Iran.
Lopez will fight for her place in the final this Monday against Sabah Saleh Shariati, representing Azerbaijan. The fight will be around 3:00 PM, Cuban time.
The Azerbaijani had a hard time beating Heiki Nabi, representing Estonia, but in the end he managed to prevail and reach the quarter-finals, where he had less difficulty in beating Alimkhan Syzdykov, from Kazakhstan.
Should Lopez win his next fight, the four-time Cuban champion will have to compete for gold on Tuesday, August 6 at 2:30 PM, Cuban time.
Paris 2024 matchday update
This Monday, August 5, a total of 10 Cubans compete on the seventh day of the Paris Olympic Games.
The day for the Caribbeans competing with the official delegation began early, at 4:00 am Cuban time, with Anisley García in the preliminaries of the 10-meter platform diving modality.
Garcia had two very good final jumps and managed to recover positions to advance to the semifinals of the 10 m platform and become the first representative of Cuba to achieve it at the Olympic Games.
García totaled 283.00, good for 14th place among 29 registered women.
After finishing 22nd in the first three jumps, the Cuban had the third best score among all the competitors in the fourth round of jumps, a performance that placed her in qualifying positions. She then closed with another good jump to consolidate her position among the top 18 of this stage.
On the other hand, Mario Díaz is looking to qualify in the discus throw, in group A. Roxana Gómez, Olympic finalist in Tokyo 2020, achieved her best time of the year in the 400 m flat and advanced to the semifinals of the event. The Antillean came second in her series with a time of 50.38 s, only preceded by the Polish favorite Natalia Kaczmarek (49.98 s).
Kevin de Armas of the 60 kg of Greco-Roman wrestling He lost this Monday by technical superiority 11-1 against the Japanese Kenihiro Fumita, silver medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
