Omar Turro Moya

Omar Turro Moya . Visually impaired former athlete from the Guantánamo province, specialty Athletics . 1st. Cuban Paralympic champion, gold medalist in Olympics, Central America, Pan American Games and World Cup, world and Paralympic record holder, considered sports glory . Brief Biographical Synthesis He was born in Guantanamo . He began practicing sports when he was a postman for the Provincial Construction Sector, he only had in mind … Read more

Leonardo Diaz

Leonardo Díaz Aldana , Cuban parathlete who competes in bullet drive , discus throw and javelin throw in the F56 ( wheelchair ) category . In his successful sports career, he has obtained the titles of Parapan American champion, world champion, and Paralympic champion. Summary [ hide ] 1 Biographical synthesis 1 Sports career 1.1 2001 – 2004 1.2 2005 – 2008 1.3 2009 – 2012 1.4 2013 – 2016 1.5 2017 – 2020 2 Sports results 3 Awards and … Read more

Paralympic Games

Paralympic Games . Official competitions in which people with physical, motor, hearing, mental and visual disabilities take part. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC), created in 1989 and based in the city of Bonn , Germany , is the world’s leading sports organization that organizes high-performance sports for disabled people. Summary [ hide ] 1 History 2 Etymology 3 Emergence in Cuba 1 First sports 2 First international events 3 ANCI 4 ANSOC 5 ACLIFIM 6 FCDRM 7 Sports that … Read more

London 2012 Paralympic Games

London 2012 Paralympic Games. They are the fourteenth Paralympic Games to be held in the summer of 2012 from August 29 to September 9 in the capital of the United Kingdom . The program has 20 sports . Giant screens have been installed in the center of the city so that the population can see live the free sports activities, including the Marathon. They will be the first Olympics in which the organization of … Read more

Argentina at the Paralympic Games

Argentina in the Paralympic Games . Argentina has participated in all the Summer Paralympic Games , since its first edition in Rome 1960 . It was the only Spanish-speaking country and the only Latin American country present in the first two editions. Regarding the Paralympic Winter Games, his first participation was in Vancouver 2010 , appearing since then in all editions. The Argentine delegations obtained a total of … Read more

Boxing in Cuba

Boxing in Cuba . Known as the sport of fists, it was practiced in ancient Greece , in the Olympic Games , from the beginning it was a popular sport. In Rome , the contestants wore the cestus, metal hand protectors, studded with nails with which they even killed the contestants. Summary [ hide ] 1 History 1 Background 2 Beginnings 3 National Boxing Commission 4 Revolutionary period 2 Glorias of Cuban Boxing 3 References … Read more