Mayabeque, Cuba: The ninth edition of the Olympic Ideal Half Marathon, Emblematic Race of Mayabeque, was celebrated with total success.
Since 2011 this event pays tribute to the birth of our Historical Leader Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and the creation of the Cuban Olympic Committee (IOC).
Both ephemerides have their genesis on August 13, 1926 in Birán, Holguín province and Havana.
The people of this young province dressed up as a party in all their municipalities where they also held massive popular races to celebrate the historic date.
As in the previous editions the race began in the capital of Mayabeque and after traveling 21 kilometers, 97 meters and a half ended in the Central Park of the city of Güines.
Thousands of people witnessed the effort of more than three hundred walkers from 12 provinces that stoically challenged the inclement sun that punished them throughout the tour.
In the surroundings of the final goal, numerous audiences gathered to reward with applause those who, overcoming fatigue came to the line of judgment.
Dayran Suárez Gamboa, from Matanzas, became absolute winner with a record of one hour, 10 minutes and 57 seconds. Suárez Gamboa became the fourth walker who triumphs in the hard test, which Richer Pérez, from Havana, won in the first five editions, Hormelis Isaac Pichardo, twice and Francisco Ronni Estévez Quintero, from Mayabeque, in 2018.
Precisely Estévez was the rival that besieged the winner during the whole journey, but being already within Güines he gave in and came second with time of 1.14, 19, in front of Magliel Ibarra Correa, of Villa Clara who used 1, 16.25.
Among the ladies, the first three places went to Misleidys Vargas Hernández, from Artemisa, with a 1.26.40 mark, Lisandra Gómez Charón, from Havana, who used 1.28.46 and Liuris Martha Figueredo, from Mayabeque, with time of 1.3618.
Among the participants of the Disabled Associations, the triumphs were for Elvis Sardiñas, of the Blind and Visual Weak, with a record of 1, 22.20, among the Deaf and the Hearing-impaired, Javier Castro Peña (1, 32,34), both of whom the host province and Andrés Aldama García, (1, 58.46), from Santiago de Cuba, was the best for the Physical-Motor Limited.
The contest had foreign participation from Mexico, Bolivia and Italy.
Present in the finish line were the member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and its First Secretary in Mayabeque, Yanina de la Nuez Aclich, the President of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, General José Antonio Carrillo Gómez, and the President of the Government in the province of Tamara Valido Benítez, who participated in the awards to the absolute winners.
They were accompanied by other leaders of the province and the municipalities participating in the event.
This August 13 was another day of sports party for the thousands of inhabitants of Mayabeque, who gathered to enjoy the event that paid tribute to the 93rd anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro Ruz and the constitution of the Cuban Olympic Committee.
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