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Judo and swimming gave Venezuela new medals in the Junior Pan American Games

The Guayanese Lismar Lyon was in fifth place in the 100-meter butterfly.

Venezuelan swimming emerged on this third day with a pair of medals to show the chest. One of silver and another of bronze from María Yegres and Jorge Otaiza, who added so that the national delegation reaches the double digit of medals in these Pan American Junior Games Cali-Valle 2021.

Yegres, only 16 years old, became the first Creole athlete with two medals, after winning bronze on Friday in the 400-meter freestyle. But on Saturday night he improved his performance with a second place of heart attack in the 200 free meters.

The Mirandina stopped the clock at 02:02:16, while the champion Ana Vieira from Brazil registered 02:02:15. The third place went to the Colombian Karen Durango with 02:03:09.

«I feel very happy because I did not think I was going to win money. Maybe a bronze, but I have no regrets for not having won gold, although it was very close, “said the siren after her feat, to the press of the Venezuelan Olympic Committee.

Minutes later Otaiza got on the podium, with the third place he achieved in the 100m butterfly, a test dominated by Brazilians Kayky Marquat (52:81) and Matheus Ferreira (52:83). The Venezuelan escorted them with a time of 53.76 seconds.

“It feels very good to win this medal on behalf of Venezuela. It feels like a great victory, “said the triton, after receiving the medal from the president of the Venezuelan Olympic Committee, Professor Eduardo Álvarez. “I train outside my country, but I feel completely Venezuelan and that is very nice.”

Bryan Chávez and Lismar Lyon also stood out, each achieving fifth place in the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly, respectively.

The four closed the day with the free 4 × 100 relay, arriving in the fifth box with 03:39:03.

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While in judo, Amarantha Urdaneta (+ 78kg) and Juan Díaz (-90kg) sealed the performance with a bronze clasp.

Díaz overcame his nerves and anxiety, factors that in his opinion, already with a Pan-American medal in hand, were his greatest rivals in Jamundí-Valle.

“I had anxiety and fear in the fighting, but in the end we achieved an important medal for the country,” revealed Díaz after dominating the Ecuadorian Kevin Cuero with two techniques that earned him the decisive ippon and the eighth medal of the day for Venezuela.

Urdaneta, fifth in the youth world championship held this year in Italy, ratified his technical and tactical evolution on the tatami by materializing in the “Yuri Alvear” Coliseum of the Jamundí-Valle sub-headquarters what was the country’s ninth medal in the first-born event junior from the continent.

“I am happy because I worked for this medal, this bronze for me is worth gold for all the effort I have made,” Urdaneta acknowledged after beating Mexican Patricia Martínez in the Golden Score in the repechage, whom he had defeated this year in Cali. , to win gold in the Pan American Junior Championship of the specialty.

Regarding his immediate future, Amarantha reiterated that he has one year left in the junior category to lay the foundations before “earning my place in the adult national team.”

On the way to bronze, the 19-year-old judoka fell in the first round to Thalia Castaño of Cuba, a defeat that sent her to the playoffs, in which she dominated the Puerto Rican Ettelimay Ramos by ippon in 50 seconds as a prelude to her victory against the Aztec Martinez.

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