The Argentine Confederation of Aquatic Sports (Cadda) made official on Monday with a statement Candela Raviola’s call to the Argentine National Team that will compete in the first edition of the Junior Pan American Games that will take place between November 25 and December 5 Cali -Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Such advanced The opinion At the beginning of August, the Pescadores swimmer will participate in the 200 and 100 meter backstroke, her specialty, because she obtained marks in both tests. The first, of category A, was obtained in the South American Absolute and the other, B, in the National Selective that took place in May at the swimming pool of the National Center for High Sports Performance (Cenard) of the Federal Capital.
The sampedrina will share the national team with Lucas Alba, María Selene Alborzen, Martina Barbeito, Valentín Constantino, Delfina Dini, Lucía Gauna, Candela Giordanino, Federico Ludueña, Valentina Marcantonio, Juan Ignacio Méndez, Luciano Molina, Mainque Mujica, Magdalena Portela, Joaquín Renzi , María Guillermina Ruggiero, Gian Turco, Nicolás Weigandt, Nicolás Sardi and Juan Bautista Carrocia.
3,500 athletes from 41 countries will participate in the first edition of the Junior Pan American Games, including Raviola and Nautico paddlers Rebeca D’Estéfano and Valentín Rossi, who often concentrate with the Argentine women’s and men’s teams, respectively, in Rosario.
There will also be competitions in diving, swimming, artistic swimming, athletics, badminton, 3 × 3 basketball, handball, bowling, boxing, BMX cycling, mountain biking, road and track; fencing, artistic, rhythmic and trampoline gymnastics; judo, karate, weightlifting, wrestling and Greco-Roman; artistic skate, speed and skateboarding; modern pentathlon, rowing, squash, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, sports shooting, archery, triathlon; yachting, volleyball and beach volleyball.
In individual sports such as canoeing and swimming, those who obtain the gold medal will automatically qualify for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
