Silver for Cuban mainland Grau shooting tournament

The Cuban Jorge Grau won silver in the form of 10 meters air pistol at the beginning of the Eleventh Americas Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico, and taxed the best score in the top six competitors in Cuba.

Grau entered the final in fifth place with 572 points scored in the preliminary phase and had an excellent round for medals accumulating 197.5 in the nine series, only outdone by the American Will Brown (198.6).

The northern ratified its hegemony over the continent in the global ranking, which now occupies the seat 35 after the 51 achieved in the recent World Championships in Granada 2014.

In the third place ended fellow American James Henderson (176.7), who had shared 581 with Brazilian Julio Almeida in the first two positions in the classification step to just eight.

The other Cuban competing with 566 and William Pious Eliecer Mora 562, stayed away in the seats 14 and 23, respectively, according to findings published in the official website.

The test hosted 50 competitors in the CODE Whereabouts of the capital of Jalisco and was the first of the 15 listed in the Olympic program, 11 of them with a place for each Janeiro'16 River.

In similar pattern for women the best location of the largest island of the Antilles was given by Laina Perez for eighth place, to go in the first knockout in only three spins.

Perez agreed seventh with 373 won by a Salvadoran specialty Lilian Castro (373-196.3) followed by Mexican Alejandra Zavala (385-195.1) and Alejandra Cervantes (373-171.1).

Also by the Cuban squad Sheila Gonzalez (359) anchored in the 28 and Claudia Hernandez (356) in 29 of 40 enrolled.

This Tuesday on the second date is scheduled in the same facility classes airgun 10 m for each sex Eglys de la Cruz, Dianelis Pérez, Linet Aguiar and Elaine Perez for females, and Reinier Estopiñán, Yoleisis Lois Alexander Molerio and Reinier Quintanilla among men.

The contest also distributes 200 seats for the Pan American Games Toronto'15.