Cali, Colombia.- With a gold medal and a bronze medal for weights, the Dominican Republic reached a total of 10 medals after the fifth on the fourth day this Monday of the First June Pan American Games held in this city.
Gymnastics, with the youthful Jabiel Polanco, joined weights and judo as the three federations that have contributed to the country’s medal table in this multisport event.
The delegation has three gold medals, including one for weights, one for judo and one for gymnastics, as well as three silver, all for judo, and four bronze (three for judo and one for weights).
On the day, team judo was to be defined in the medal table, as well as women’s doubles bowling.
GYMNAST GOLD
Cali, Colombia. Jabiel de Jesús Polanco Acosta won this Sunday the third gold medal for the Dominican Republic in the Cali 2021 Pan American Youth Games, registering the best score in the final of the men’s artistic gymnastics rings event, an event held at the Coliseo court. The Town, of this city.
Polanco Acosta had a record of 13,133 points to overcome the Peruvian Edward Daniel Alarcón Luque, who achieved a score of 12.9 points and won the silver medal.
The bronze medal went to Costa Rican Ariel Josué Villalobos Mendoza, who received 12,833 points from the judges for his performance.
In fourth place, the American Vahe Petrosyan arrived with 12,766 points, in fifth place were tied the Mexican Ricardo Omar Torres Moreno and the Brazilian Diogo Giuseppe Speranza Paes with 12,566 points each, the seventh position went to David Shamah with 12,333 points and eighth Colombian Sergio Andrés Vargas Rincón arrived with 12,033 points.
Polanco will have the opportunity this Monday to hang more medals when he takes part in the final of the horse and parallel jumping modalities.
With his performance, the gymnast from Santiago confirmed his level shown in the X Central American Youth Artistic Gymnastics Championship that took place last month at the Ciudad Merliot Sports Center in El Salvador.
In that championship, in which he participated as a blank, Polanco got four gold medals and one bronze, including the first place in the overall youth male with a score of 71.05.
In rings, a modality that he won in these Youth Pan American Games, the athlete had a score of 13,134, valid for the gold medal.
BRONZE WEIGHTS
Cali, Colombia. The weightlifter Sindy Santana Carrión obtained this Sunday the bronze medal in the 76 kilograms category of the weight tournament of the First Youth Pan American Games, which takes place in the Ramón Elías López Pavilion.
Santana Carrión lifted 97 kilos in snatch and 120 in clean and jerk for a total of 217, just one less than Kelin Juliana Jiménez, from Ecuador, who took the silver after registering two less her in the first movement (95), but three more in clean and jerk (123) to add 218.
The gold was conquered without the best of her efforts by the North American Olivia Revees, superior in all the competition, with a total of 235, the result of the sum of 105 in the snatch mode and 130 in the clean and jerk mode.
The other Dominican athlete who competed in that category was Verónica Vega Pie, who finished fourth with 213 kilos in total (90 and 113).
Santana Carrión’s tanned plate is the second one achieved by the Quisqueyan team of weightlifting in the joust.
Last Saturday, the Petromacorisana Dahiana Ortiz won the gold medal in the 49 kilograms category, which she decorated with the two junior continental records she set in snatch (82) and 185 in total after lifting 102 in clean and jerk, double her weight. bodily.
BÁDMINTON ENDS IN CALI
CALI. Colombia. -The Dominican Nairoby Jiménez was defeated by the Peruvian Inés Castillo 2 sets to 0 in the quarterfinals of the women’s singles of the badminton event of the Pan American Youth Games in Cali 2021, which is held at the Valle del Pacífico Events Center, from this city.
Castillo’s victory, which made it to the semifinals, came with partials of 21-15 and 21-5.
With the elimination of Jiménez, the Dominican badminton team’s performance in the tournament concluded.
In the first round, Jiménez had beaten the Panamanian Yau Kely 2-0 (21-15 and 21-13) and in the second round he also beat the Salvadoran Fatima Centeno 2-0 (21-15 and 24-22).
PREVIOUS
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS Coliseo El Pueblo, Cali Valle
FINAL:
Javiel polanco
Salto (1:00 pm (2:00 pm RD time)
Parallel (1:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. RD time)
MEN’S HANDBALL Ivan Vassilev Todorov Coliseum
Group B 7:40 p.m. (8:30 p.m. RD time)
RD vs Cuba
BOLICHE Coliseo de Bolo Pista
9:00 in the morning (10:00 am RD time)
Women’s qualifiers
Carmina Hermon Vásquez and Ana Gabriela Soto Lora
SWIMMING Hernando Obyne Botero Pools, Main Pool
10:00 am (11:00 am RD time)
50 meters free
Mariel Mencía´
Elizabeth jimenez
Denzel Gonzalez
Roberto Liz
TENNIS Club Campestre de Cali, Squash Court # 5
9:00 in the morning (10:00 am RD time)
Simple masculine and feminine.
Round of 32
Alejandro Gandini, Carmen Zamburek and Carolina Chiatti Reynoso
ATHLETICS DELEGATION
The Athletics delegation of the Dominican Republic left this Sunday for the city of Cali, Colombia, to participate starting this Tuesday in the competitions of the First Youth Pan American Sports Games that are already in development.
The Dominican team is headed by Santos Vásquez, who will act as delegate, José Rubio, the coach, while the athletes are Lirangi Alonso, Fiordaliza Cofil Nathalia Corotaeva, César Jazmín and María Isabel Senyu.
