Buenos Aires - Cuban women's judo maintains its goal to achieve five places for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro-2016, confirmed today the coach Ismael Borbona.

Borbona, who traveled at the head of the small delegation on a South American tour that included Open tournaments of Lima and Buenos Aires, positively evaluated the work done in both matches.

I think we are achieving the goals we set out to participate in these two events, which are quite accessible to score points, and athletes only need to give the rest to take the 100 points awarded by the gold, he pointed out.

In this sense, the coach clarified that with the accumulation brought by Maricet Espinosa (63 kg) and Onix Cortes (70) bronze and silver is not important because they would not go up in the rankings.

They were well focused, they know what they came for, that any other position was suitable.

Maricet was immaculate, with almost all his fights won by ippon, he expressed in exclusive to Prensa Latina.

The Panamerican match in Havana (in April) is a great opportunity to make ours who have not yet achieve classification can be included in the advanced group and a final event would be in Guadalajara in May, he noted.

Cuba would also participate in the Grand Prix of Georgia and Turkey, in April, but there must compete those placed in top positions in the world ranking: Dayaris Mestre (48), Yalennis Castillo (78) and Idalis Ortiz (over 78). I think we can carry five, now we have three almost safe, and these two are very close.