Lto American Ruth Winder (Trek Segafredo) has been awarded in a “photo finish” sprint the sixth edition of the Flecha Brabanzona that has been contested between Lennik and Overijse, with a route of 127.3 kilometers.

In a tight sprint that required the arrival photo, the 27-year-old American She has won ahead of the Dutch Demi Vollering (SD Worx), who raised her arm as the winner, and the Italian Elisa Balsamo (Valcar-Travel & Service). In fourth place another American entered, the Movistar runner Leah Thomas.

In a tough test from the start, of attrition, the key was 42 kilometers from the finish line when 14 runners abandoned the discipline of the peloton to open their way to the finish line. In principle there were the Movistar Annemiek van Vleuten and Leah Thomas, but in the final movement that left 6 in front for the victory, only the American remained.

Balsamo, Vollering, Joscelin Lowden, Ruth Winder, Juliette Labous (Team DSM) and Leah Thomas were able to open the gap and they were going to decide the Belgian classic in a reduced sprint.

In theory, the fastest was the Italian Elisa Balsamo, who attacked from afar to prevail by speed, but Ruth Winder and Demi Vollering held the lash well and the first beat the Dutch. Winder succeeds Australian Grace Brown, winner in 2020, at the palmars.

De Souza had been admitted since the end of last month to a hospital in Tres Lagoas, a city in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul where she was born in 1968.

The Brazilian, who played her entire career as a forward, was in recent times the coach of the sport to which she dedicated her life and in which she ended her career as a player in 1994, when she was a member of the Spanish University of Ferrol.

That same year, in Australia, De Souza was part of the Brazilian team that won the Women’s Basketball World Cup and with which she had already participated in the Olympic Games in Barcelona (1992) and in the Pan American Games in Havana (1991). , among other tournaments.

“Thank you, thank you, eternally thank you,” the Brazilian Basketball Confederation published on its social networks, which expressed the “pain” of lovers of that sport for the death of whom he described as a “warrior” and owner of “the most beautiful smile “.

This content was published on 13 April 2021 – 17:14

13 April 2021 – 17:14

Brasilia, Apr 13 (EFE) .- Former basketball player Ruth de Souza, a member of the Brazilian team that won the 1994 World Cup, played in Australia, died this Tuesday at the age of 52 a victim of COVID-19, reported sources from the federation of that sport.

De Souza had been admitted since the end of last month to a hospital in Tres Lagoas, a city in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul where she was born in 1968.

The Brazilian, who played her entire career as a forward, was in recent times the coach of the sport to which she dedicated her life and in which she ended her career as a player in 1994, when she was a member of the Spanish University of Ferrol.

That same year, in Australia, De Souza was part of the Brazilian team that won the Women’s Basketball World Cup and with which she had already participated in the Olympic Games in Barcelona (1992) and in the Pan American Games in Havana (1991). , among other tournaments.

“Thank you, thank you, eternally thank you,” the Brazilian Basketball Confederation published on its social networks, which expressed the “pain” of lovers of that sport for the death of whom he described as a “warrior” and owner of “the most beautiful smile “. EFE

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Ruth Beitia, Olympic high jump champion, has become the Official Ambassador of Club Deportivo A LA PAR, a club that has worked for more than 20 years for the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities through sports, both professional and professional. as an amateur level. The A LA PAR Sports Club is part of the A LA PAR Foundation, an entity chaired by Almudena Martorell and which has as one of its main objectives work for the rights of people with intellectual disabilities and for their full participation in society.

In addition to the designation as ambassador of Ruth Beitia, the event served to publicize the “Decalogue of proposals for greater visibility of sport with intellectual disabilities”: a document jointly prepared by Ruth Beitia herself and by the athletes of Fundacin A LA Park seeks to contribute ideas to contribute to a greater profile of sport with intellectual disabilities in society and to a progressively more equal representation in the daily newspaper story.

Ruth Beitia said she was “proud to become part of this great family that is Fundacin A LA PAR and to do my bit to give visibility to the work of each and every one of the champions who leave this Club. I have come to I will stay and I have come to fight with you, side by side, by your side “.

I am proud to become part of this great family that is Fundacin A LA PAR and to do my bit to give visibility to the work of each and every one of the champions.

Ruth Beitia

The former athlete insisted that “I am not the protagonist of today. The protagonists are these champions. Promises of sport with intellectual disabilities like these ‘cracks’, the Deliber brothers and Dionibel Rodríguez, Campen and Runner-up of Europe, respectively , at the recent Virtus Indoor European Athletics Championships held just two weeks ago in France. “

Ruth lamented that “too often, athletes with intellectual disabilities like those who are here today are heroes but with the handicap that when they put on their hero cape to achieve victories they seem to become invisible. This must be fought.”

Also present at the event were Miguel Sagarra, Secretary General of the Paralympic Committee; Ángel Arvalo, President of the Madrid Sports Federation for People with Intellectual Disabilities (FEMADDI) and its manager, Ral Lucas; as well as the journalist and President of the Spanish Sports Press Association, Julin Redondo. On behalf of A LA PAR, the president of the Foundation, Almudena Martorell, and the Director of the A LA PAR Sports Club, Marcos Herrero, attended.