But not. The fourth position among the men of the basketball and the fifth on the football were the best thing of the sets. Separate mention is deserved by the baseball, which filed its worst historical performance in national series, on having wraped up last among the 16 teams in fight.

Fortunately, there came to our rescue the wrestling, the athletics and the boxing, which calendar after calendar are reaffirmed like the ¨main¨ specialties of the province, so much in domestic contests as in the international ones.

Of the gladiators the most outstanding harvest was obtained at the beginning of the year, when the Greco-Roman style was crowned again (for third consecutive time); also, due to Pablo Shorey they had an eighth place at world level and the gold of 85 kilograms, in the Central American Games and of the Caribbean of Veracruz.

Boxing: more than fists

Due to strange circumstances, the boxing opens and closes every sports year. After the change in the date of the tournaments Playa Girón (that for several editions is celebrated in December), the last days of the calendar pass under the stamp of the happened in our principal boxing tournament.

Thanks to the men of the ring, from 2011 up to date the Camagüeyan sport celebrates the last days of December. This time, the leading role had name of “nationals“ (Toledo, La Cruz, Peró), that along with talents that are formed in the territory, imposed its class to keep the province in the highest position.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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