Cuba plans to attend Paris 2024 with the third smallest Olympic delegation after 1959, with a figure lower than the number of athletes who went to Tokyo 2020.
The island hopes to complete a number of athletes around 60 out of 61, since there are still places up for grabs in the last days of June.
Currently, Cuba has 46 athletes in 14 sports already qualified for Paris 2024, but there are 15 possibilities of achieving a place before the 30th, when the classification systems close.
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According to José Antonio Miranda Carrera, general director of High Performance at INDER, the greatest remaining possibilities focus “on athletics, diving with one possibility; swimming (2) and confirmation of judo with 4 athletes (2 male and 2 female).”
In addition, the projection is to reach a total of 16 sports, although without the participation of team sports, since men’s volleyball could not qualify.
In this way, if it finished around 60 athletes, Cuba would have the third smallest Olympic delegation after 1959, only above Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964.
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Cuban delegations to the Olympic Games after 1959
- Rome 1960/12 athletes/8 sports
- Tokyo 1964/27 athletes/six sports
- Mexico 1968 / 138 athletes / 14 sports
- Munich 1972 / 143 athletes / 14 sports
- Montreal 1976 / 160 athletes / 15 sports
- Moscow 1980 / 208 athletes / 19 sports
- Barcelona 1992 / 183 athletes / 18 sports
- Atlanta 1996 / 165 athletes / 16 sports
- Sydney 2000 / 238 athletes / 24 sports
- Athens 2004 / 152 athletes / 19 sports
- Beijing 2008 / 165 athletes / 18 sports
- London 2012 / 110 athletes / 14 sports
- Rio de Janeiro 2016 / 120 athletes / 18 sports
- Tokyo 2020/69 athletes/15 sports
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