{"id":8178,"date":"2025-05-15T21:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=8178"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:48:21","slug":"two-medals-for-cuba-in-ibsa-judo-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/two-medals-for-cuba-in-ibsa-judo-world-championship-15052025\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Medals for Cuba in IBSA Judo World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cuba&#8217;s performance in the individual competitions of the IBSA Judo World Championship Kazakhstan 2025 concluded with two bronze medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheyla Hernandez (J2 +70 kg) won her second bronze medal, which meant her third in the orb, adding the silver medal in individual and team bronze, both achieved in Baku 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Paris 2024 runner-up needed only four seconds to defeat Thailand&#8217;s Promphan Taenmun by ippon, but then stumbled against Brazil&#8217;s Rebeca Silva, the eventual champion, who had also beaten her in the Paralympic final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the dispute for the podium, she faced another well-known Australian, Taylor Gosens, whom she defeated comfortably to fulfill the prediction of reaching the prize in this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ariagna de la Caridad Hechevarr\u00eda (J1 70 kg) pleasantly surprised by imitating her compatriot in results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite losing in her first bout against Greek Theodora Paschalidou, by a narrow margin of one yuko, she recovered in the repechage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There she defeated Khosiyatkhon Poziljonova of Uzbekistan by ippon in just over a minute and continued until the dispute for one of the bronze medals, which she won by waza-ari against Esmeralda Taskin of T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Manuel Romero (J2 64 kg) came out on top in less than a minute against his first opponent, Kazakhstan&#8217;s Iskander Uldanov, but was soon caught by Georgian Zurab Zurabiani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then starred in a tough battle against Russia&#8217;s Elmurad Mikailov, which lasted more than six minutes and was decided by yuko in Golden Rule in favor of the Slav, which left the Caribbean in seventh place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This turned out to be a productive day for Brazil, which won four titles, as in addition to Silva, Brenda Souza De Freitas (J1 70 kg), Alana Maldonado (J2 70 kg), and Wilians De Araujo (J1 +95 kg) were crowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also won Uzbekistan&#8217;s Uljon Amrieva (J1 60 kg) and Kemran Nurillaev (J2 64 kg); Kazakhstan&#8217;s Zhurkamyrza Shukurbekov (J2 +95 kg); Georgia&#8217;s Zviad Gogotchuri (J2 95 kg); Great Britain&#8217;s Dan Powell (J1 95 kg), and Ukraine&#8217;s Anastasiia Harnyk (J1 +70 kg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba&rsquo;s performance in the individual competitions of the IBSA Judo World Championship Kazakhstan 2025 concluded with two bronze medals. 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