• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Sports
• 03 / 13 / 2012

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In the category Pan American Championships individual route and track cycling route Cuban Yumari Gonzalez took the gold medal, being the fifth medal obtained by Cuba in the contest held in Mar del Plata.
Thus, Yumari not leave without medals entering the spa town in front of another 25 who completed the journey of 90 kilometers and cross the line of sentence with time of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 37 seconds.
According to José Luis Basulto information out to the road 47 competitors, including other Cuban Marlies Mejias, who came fifth after an excellent job of supporting both face Yumari to attack Canada, United States, Mexico, Argentina and Chile , all with full teams of six riders.
Basulto said, the newsletter COPACI that Yumari said between sobs, "My excitement is indescribable, not only for victory, but because I go further classification for this road test of the upcoming Olympic Games."
Behind Yumari, leader of a squad that rolled to an average of 38.724 mph, entered Kirchaman Lea (Canada), Janildes Fernandez (Brazil), Shelley Olds (USA), Marlies Mejias (Cuba), Clemilda Silva (Brazil) , Daniely Garcia (Venezuela), Paola Muñoz (Chile), Valeria Pintos (Argentina) and Ana T. Casas (Mexico).
On the track tribute to Cuba Lisandra War gold in 500 meter time trial and silver in speed, and Marlies of the same color Omnium and at three thousand meters individual pursuit, respectively.
The Caribbean trio will attend the World Championships in Melbourne, Australia from 4 to 8 of April, which will definitely give the list of Olympic qualification on track.
To meet that same goal in the route lacks Yumari runners-up this event in the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, participating in several races this month in El Salvador, the results give you points for candidates to London.