HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 19 (ACN) Cuban Sheyla Hernandez won the silver medal on the closing day of the IBSA Judo Grand Prix, held in Heidelberg, Germany.
Outstanding performance of the silver medalist Hernandez, multi medalist of the world in the over 70 kilograms (kg), category J2 (blind), who scored points for the world ranking ( WR) that defines the Olympic Ranking ( OR) for the Paralympic Games in Paris 2024.
Places for 54 male and 48 female athletes will be allocated based on the ranking ratio, while France will receive places as the host country.
Sheyla lost in the title discussion to Kazakhstan’s Zarina Raifova, and moved closer to the second position of the Paralympic ranking held by Italy’s Carolina Costa and the leader, Brazil’s Rebeca Silva, whom she defeated at the Santiago 2023 Parapan Amer
