The president of the Cuban Institute of Sports (Inder), Osvaldo Vento Montiller, led the reception committee at Jose Marti International Airport in the early morning of this Friday.

Vento praised the director of the champion team, Sergio Arturo Perez Hechevarria, and considered that when there is a good teacher, dedicated and busy with his students, one can expect results as outstanding as the one achieved.

In the debut of this discipline in competitions under the five hoops, Cubagave in the preliminary phase against Chinese Taipei, but in the final they took revenge on the Asian team.

Rachel Medina was also the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, the same award she had won at last year’s World Youth Championship in the Mexican city of Nayarit.

Alongside the Dakar 2026 monarch team also returned judoka Kaila Pita, who achieved a fifth place and was unable to compete for bronze due to an injury on her left arm.

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