Olympics: Cuban Freestyle Fighter Milaimys Marin Wins Bronze
Fighter Milaimys Marin and his Trainer, Aug 10, 2024 Photo: @CNCTVGranma
August 11, 2024 Hour: 4:02 pm
This is the second Olympic medal for a Cuban athlete in this discipline in the history of the Olympic Games.
With a clear 6-0 in the last match of the repesca, the Cuban wrestler Milaimy Marín, 23 years old, today beat her Kyrgyz counterpart Aiperi Medet Kyzy (runner-up of the 2023 World Cup), to win the bronze medal in the 76 kg category, during the final day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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The mattress of the Arena Campo de Marte, in Paris, hosted the clash that completed the performance of the Cuban wrestling team in the five-ring event. Although Marín lost in the quarterfinals to Kennedy Blades, the US final gave her a second chance at the repechaje.
The young habanera was exempt from the first match of the repesca, due to an injury of the Romanian Catalina Axente, then beat the representative of Kyrgyzstan, the number one in the ranking.
After the award ceremony, in statements to the press, Milaimy Marín said she enjoys the gift as if it were gold. “All the results I’ve achieved have been with a lot of sacrifice, both from me and my coaches,” he said.
Who was champion at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, world number one under 23 in 2019, fifth at the 2023 World Cup and gold at the 2023 Pan American Games, This Sunday he won the fifth medal of the Cuban fight in Paris 2024 and the ninth for the delegation.
Autor: CC
Fuente: JIT-Olympics
