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The Paralympics continental movement with his 16 years of experience will write another page in history on August 7, 2015 with the 5th Para-Pan Americans Games to be held in the Canadian city of Toronto in eight events.
This games has the goal to be a milestone in history. They are not only satisfied to increase the number of participants to 1,500 athletes from 28 countries, where Cuba will participate with eight (the greatest achieved in these events) if the capacities in field tennis on wheelchairs are confirmed and also female volleyball sitting down.
Cuba would be able to participate with 70 athletes that had classified for the Paralympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro 2016, reported the Head of the Department of Sports for Disabled People, Rene Jimenez Sagarra.
At present, according to data provided, the number of athletes confirmed is 29, but that will change, because the classification process will officially close on May 31.
In this period, the sprinter star Yunidis Castillo should get room recovered after she gave birth, also to fight for her room to the continental event in the races of 100, 200 and 400 flat meters.
Danoy Valdes Rodriguez, technical head of the above mentioned department explains that the greatest expectations are focused in athletics (the most representative sport which should have from 25 to 30 athletes), judo and swimming, because they are the disciplines that have motivated our delegations in the medal table.
Although the Cuban directives have not predicted the quantity of medals that the Cuban athletes could win, some of them are foreseeable, especially in track and field where there highlight the figures of Yunidis, Omara Duran, Leonardo Diaz, Luis Felipe Guitierrez and Raciel Gonzalez.
Cuba has participated in the four editions before (Mexico 1999, Mar del Plata 2003, Rio de Janeiro 2007 and Guadalajara 2011), and has 161 medals (75 of gold, 56 of silver and 30 of bronze) that placed our country in the sixth historical position.
In the celebrations of 2007 and 2011 our delegations attended to with 51 and 47 members respectively, so Toronto could mark an explosion in participants. In relation to this, Valdes confirmed that «go to this games with eight disciplines will be an achievement, because we have generally attended these events with just five disciplines”.
So far, the best results achieved by Cuba in these events was in Rio de Janeiro 2007 with 28 golden medals, 21 of silver and 11 of bronze, followed by the one achieved in 2011. It all seems that Cuba would be able to have a better position than the fourth it got in Guadalajara, with the greatest delegation of its history and many stars in a venue that bets to break many records.
