Angélica Espinoza gets a gold medal for Peru after winning the Taekwondo final | Meryem Cavdar | SPORT-TOTAL

Worth a Peru! Angelica Espinoza the dawn of Thursday, September 2 made history and made our country happy after consecrating Paralympic champion in parataekwondo. The para-athlete defeated Meryem Cavdar and thus got the first gold medal for Peruvians in regards to Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Relive minute by minute of the Parataekwondo final

• Gold medal for the Peruvian. A gold after 21 years, since Sydney 2000 with Jimmy Eulert.

• GOLD FOR PERU: Angélica Espinoza defeated Meryem Cavdar 34-21 and became PARALYMPIC CHAMPION.

• First round: 4-4 | Second round: 8-4 in favor of Angelica Espinoza.
• The fight began: Angélica Espinoza is already competing for the gold medal in para taekwondo in Tokyo 2020.

• Angélica Espinoza is about to face Meryem Cadvar for the gold medal at Tokyo 2020.

• Remember that Angélica Espinoza is a three-time Pan American champion, a Gold medalist in Lima 2019 and is also recognized as the best female Para athlete on the continent by the Paralympic Committee of the Americas (APC).
• At the moment, the fights for bronze are being disputed in the different categories. Then follow those of gold and silver.
• In a few minutes, Angélica Espinoza will be competing for the gold medal in Para taekwondo in Tokyo 2020.

• Angélica Espinoza reached the final of the Tokyo 2020 Para taekwondo after defeating Aruna Singh Tanwar of India by 84-21 and, recently, Isakova Ziyodakhon of Uzbekistan by 17-7.
• “Podium for Peru! Angélica Espinoza won the competition and made her pass to the final in Para taekwondo, securing the first medal for Peru at Tokyo 2020. Thank you, Angélica for this enormous joy! “, published the IPD on his Twitter account after knowing the result.
• Angélica Espinoza already knows her rival: it will be Meryem Cavdar from Turkey. She defeated Anna Poddubskaia of the Czech Republic 22-11.
• The Peruvian will now hope to meet her rival, which will be Poddubskaia from the Czech Republic or Cavdar from Turkey. They compete from 4:30 am (local time).
• Angelica Espinoza is in the final of the 49 kg category by beating Isakova Ziyodakhon of Uzbekistan by a score of 17-7!

• We entered the third round and the Peruvian continues to score points: 6-2 in this round.
• So far the overall score is 9-3 in favor of Angélica Espinoza.
• 6-0 for our compatriot in this second round. He has given good kicks to the body of his rival.
• Angelica Espinoza wins four points in the second round!
• At the start of the first round, Isakova Ziyodakhon leads 3-2. Very even the start.
• The fight of the national representative begins!
• Commerce present in Angélica Espinoza’s fight at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

• The referee for the semifinal fight is Kari Sirvio. The judges are Maxim Gaus, Leila Alchukur and Konstantinos Kaloudis. The review jury is Mohammed Argoubi and the technical assistant is Katarzyna Aleszczyk.

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The 23-year-old national representative defeated Aruna Singh Tanwar of India in the quarterfinals, for the 49kg category, with a shocking score difference of 84-21.

Now, in the semifinals, he will face Isakova Ziyodakhon of Uzbekistan, who left Enkhtuya Khurelbaatar of Mongolia on the road.

Angelica Espinoza She is a three-time Pan American champion, a Gold medalist at Lima 2019 and is also recognized as the best female Para athlete on the continent by the Paralympic Committee of the Americas (APC).

“I am preparing very hard, a very intense training focused on the objectives we have set, on that side I feel very calm”he said before traveling to Tokyo 2020. “As part of the plan that we have drawn up is to be able to get on the podium and we are preparing for that. We are not wasting time and we train super hard with my coach Ivonne de la Cruz “he added.

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