Savigne,
two-time World champion (Osaka 2007 and Berlin 2009), is one of the
main cards of the island squad overlooking the XII Indoor Athletics
World Championships in Doha, Qatar to run from March12 through the
14 this year.
The Cuban star, selected as 2009 Latin America best female athlete
and gold medalist in the previous version (2008)in the Spanish city
of Valencia, will try to win her second crown.
The group also includes 110 meter hurdler Dayron Robles, Olympic
medalist in Beijing and world record holder, who will try to improve
his performance in Moscow 2006 when he won the silver medal.
Other members of the sports delegation are triple jumper Mabel Gay,
second in the Berlin tournament; David Giralt, world indoor
runner-up in Spain 2008; triple jumpers Alexis Copello, third in
Germany and Yoandry Betanzos and Wilfredo Martinez (long jump).
Sprinters Michel Hernandez and David Lezcay (60 meters), William
Collazo (400), hurdlers Anay Tejeda and Dayron Capetillo, the
decathletes Leonel Suarez, Yordanis Garcia and Diaz and shot-put
throwers Misleydis Gonzalez, Mailín Vargas and Carlos Veliz,
complete the delegation from the Caribbean nation.
Javier Sotomayor, high jump World record holder (indoors and
outdoors) and current coordinator of the Cuban Athletics Federation,
told CAN news agency that the Cubans will do a comprehensive tour of
the Old Continent in order to render a laudable task at the World
Championships in Qatar.
Cuba has many potential medals in the jump area, the hurdles and the
decathlon, he said.
