Cuban Lisandra Guerra Wins Points for Olympic Qualification

Cuban cyclist Lisandra Guerra participates in competitions giving points for the Olympic track cycling ranking, while training in Germany for the Pan American Games in Toronto, from July 10 to 26.

In an exclusive interview with ACN, the world champion in the women's 500 meter time trial competition in Manchester 2008 said she obtained positive results in recent competitions, with a view to qualification for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Her training in Europe will conclude on Saturday and then she will focus on the continental games, the athlete added via the Internet.

She said that the Cuban cycling team conducts training in Mexico to face in Toronto the strong athletes from Canada and Colombia who dominated the track cycling event in the Veracruz 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Lisandra Guerra, athlete of the year (2014) in Matanzas, tops the list of 37 competitors selected from this western province for the summer event in Toronto, in which Cuba will seek to finish second by countries, as position it has held since Cali 1971.