The Cuban karatecas train in height towards Lima 2019

Havana, Mar 6 (ACN) With a training base in height in Guatemala City, the main Cuban karate players are getting ready to qualify for the most important event of 2019, the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.

Lazaro Jordan Chapman, over 84 kilograms (kg), told the ACN via Internet that the nine athletes of kumite (combat) take advantage of the height to get more physical preparation and train with the Guatemalan karate.

The first figures of each division arrived on February 27 to the Central American country and will return to Cuba on the next day 11, to depart on the 16th to the Panamerican qualifier in Panama.

It is always good to share experiences with other fighters and change the training environment, valued Chapman, bronze medalist in 2018 in the Central American and Caribbean Games of Barranquilla and the Pan-American Championship in Santiago de Chile.

We take advantage of every day in Guatemala to look for the classification to Lima 2019, ratified the 22-year-old from Havana.}

In the karate championships in 2018, the Cubans won two gold and one bronze medals at the Ibero-American level, one of each color in the Pan-American and one silver and two bronze medals in Central America. In addition, in the Central American and Caribbean Games of Barranquilla, of 10 karatecas, seven climbed to the podium.

There was a highlight for Cirelys Martinez (68 kg), Baurelis de la Caridad Torres (55 kg), Maikel Noriega (67 kg), Elisabet Vasallo (61 kg), Darián Díaz (75 kg), Lázaro Chapman (more than 84 kg) and Claudia Burgos (katá modality).

The Guatemalan capital is at altitudes ranging between 1,500 and 1,600 meters above sea level, a condition that benefits physical performance.

Thanks to adaptations in the body, as a response to stress in the height, athletic abilities increase in short periods and improve the results in the plain.

Source: Lian Morales Heredia, ACN

Editor: Digital Writing Havana 500