Matanzas's municipality during the consolidation period of sports in Cuba, that is as from 1959, one has come from bridging in national sports, the baseball. In that year they deliver to village disposition the Reparto San Rafael's Camp Deportivo, today Ateneo Deportivo Aurelio Janet and the centenary Volar stadium of Junco which was rescued and declared Monumento Nacional and in 1961 he creates for himself Deportes's Institute Nacional, Physical Education and Recreation ( INDER ) at Matanzas's city
During the first national serieses in which the national championship was disputed, they earned saying I lathe in 5 occasions, with the team Citricultores. At a later time due to a redistribution, they passed to know oneself like Henequeneros, which to the equal than his previous they enjoyed maximum recognition, when the ball's title to win at 3 occasions Cuban. As it occurred with the first due to a redistribution, the name that as of today they take in his suits, the take from Matanzas's crocodiles.
It would not happen already in this occasion to the equal than with his ancestros, the Citricultores and Henequeneros, because new ball players never have reached the higher place in the podium of rewarding of this sports, remaining in at the most a fifth place.
But he does not live alone in this sports that the more Northerner one belonging to provinces has shone in, but in the sports of heights, the high jump, it opened into the more relevant figure of all times in this sports - and who the worldly recordista, with 2.45 check mark is at present m, Javier Sotomayor. This athlete of singular character broke off 3 times he marks it in distinct events.
His first occasion was when the nhardt dethroned Carlo Tr, at Salamanca, the September 8, 1988. One more year afternoon the the same Xavier would go back to break his check mark when the m, in San Juan, would record 2.44 Puerto Rico. And right now finally, 4 years after, his list of records would culminate when reaching the right now unequalled number of 2.45m, in the same place where king of this discipline at Salamanca,, in July 27, 1993 was named. But his titles not only are based on records, rather the athlete besides reached the top of the Olympic podium in the Olympic Games of Barcelona, 1992. His last presentation in an appointment of the orb was in Sydney 2000, where the 4to obtained place.
