Positive for Covid-19 Ismael Borrero, Olympic and world champion Greco-Roman style

April 3, 2020

Born in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the gladiator, universal champion in Las Vegas 2015 and Nur Sultán 2019, presents a stable clinical evolution, just like the other four representatives of the island's sports with the disease.

Wrestler Ismael Borrero, Olympic and world champion in Greco-Roman style, tested positive for the Sars-Cov-2 virus, the cause of Covid-19 disease, reported the Cuban Institute of Sports (Inder).

Borrero, monarch in the five rings competition of Rio de Janeiro 2016, is considered one of the main athletes of the largest of the Antilles and was the favorite for the gold medal in the 67 kilograms for the postponed Tokyo 2020 event.

Born in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the gladiator, universal champion in Las Vegas 2015 and Nur Sultán 2019, presents a stable clinical evolution, just like the other four representatives of the island's sports with the disease.

According to the press release from Inder, published on its official site Jit, the rest of those infected are 'judo referee William Rosquet, Isora Apuín, professor at the Rowing School of Varadero, and Milena Rodríguez, physiotherapist at the Institute of Sports Medicine'.

The organization also reported that they are under clinical-epidemiological follow-up, also wrestlers Lianna de la Caridad, Ángel Ernesto Pacheco, Daniel Gregorich and Luis Alberto Orta, as well as pentathletes Leydi Laura Moya.

The first Cuban athlete with the virus was volleyball player Javier Jiménez, currently contracted to the Estonian League, who passed the disease asymptomatically.

Jiménez, setter 1.98 meters tall and international with his country's absolute team, plays for the Saaremaa club for the 2019-2020 season, under the auspices of Inder.

So far, Covid-19 has caused the infection of several athletes worldwide, including very famous ones such as Argentine footballer Paulo Dybala, player for Juventus, or French basketball player Rudy Gobert, from the Utah Jazz.