Author: Sports writing
Quindianos —left— Nicolás Morales, Dahiana Giraldo, Sarai Pescador and Sergio Zapata.
With 10 medals, the Quindío delegation returned from the VI Junior National Badminton Championship, where under the guidance of professors Hugo Morales and Jaime Zapata, they won 5 titles in the under-17 category.
Nicolás Morales and Sergio Zapata, athletes supported by the Indeportes Quindio Lifeguard program, continued to shine with their own light, winning gold in men’s U-17 doubles.
Morales, partnering with Dahiana Giraldo, also won the gold medal in mixed sub-17 doubles, while Sarai Daniela Pescador and Dahiana Giraldo did the same in women’s sub-17 doubles.
Morales and Giraldo dazzled with their level and were crowned champions in men’s singles and women’s under-17s, respectively.
Sarai Pescador was bronze in women’s singles and Sergio Zapata, next to Sarai Pescador, silver in mixed sub-17 doubles. The rest of the bronzes went to Lucia Barrios and Daniela Arbeláez in the female sub-11 singles and Daniela Arbeláez (who paired with an athlete from Valle del Cauca) in the mixed sub-11 doubles.
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