Five Cuban athletics stars to sign with famous Spanish club

Havana, January 11 (RHC)-- Five Cuban track and field stars, including world champion and Olympic runner-up Juan Miguel Echevarría, will compete next season with the Playas de Castellón Club, one of the most successful in the sport in Spain.

The portal specialized in athletics Deporcuba has just provided details of the news, citing the profiles on the social networks of the Iberian club, which celebrated the signings with great fanfare.

World indoor long jump world champion in Birmingham-2018 and Olympic silver medalist in Tokyo-2020, Echevarría (23 years old) would become the big star of the club.

Along with the long jump talent (8.68m), world champion and Olympic discus bronze medalist Yaimé Pérez (69.39m), Olympic finalists in the 400m and triple jump, Roxana Gómez (49.71 sec), and Liadagmis Povea (14.93m), as well as Tokyo 800 semi-finalist Rose Mary Almanza (1.56.28 sec), will join the club.

These are five of the leading figures of Cuban athletics, all of them currently among the elite of their respective events in the world.

DeporCuba recalled that during last season, the Cuban Olympic athletics team carried out the final part of its preparation for Tokyo in Castellón, where they achieved excellent results and "smashed" several records of the meeting.

This is not the first time that a Spanish athletics club has signed Cuban figures. In the early 1990s, the Larios club signed stars such as Javier Sotomayor, Iván Pedroso and Silvia Costa, among others.

The Castellón club has twice won the European Athletics Club Cup and has been considered the best Spanish athletics club since 2006.