The activity of karate gave Argentina two new bronze medals to increase its medal table, while in the debut of futsal the national team beat its pair from Paraguay 3-2 at the Parque Independencia, in Rosario , where the III South American Youth Games are fully developed.
Karate was also joined today by the closure of judo, so there are already 14 disciplines that have successfully passed through these South American Youth Games. It should be noted that both activities delivered two bronze medals per category.
And on this Wednesday, Argentina achieved its first bronze medal with the help of John Ignatius Gallardo in karate -61 kilograms men, while his compatriot Francis Gonzalez he did the same later in -100 kilos.
As for futsal, Argentina defeated the Paraguayans by the same score that Colombia previously defeated Curaçao, both in the same Group A, while in Group B Brazil beat Bolivia 6-0.
For this Thursday, the presentation of another seven sports disciplines is scheduled, six of which will be debutants at the Games. These activities will be Badminton, Beach Handball, Boxing, Hockey 5 (Argentina will debut tomorrow with Las leoncitas and on Friday with Los Leoncitos), Skateboarding, Athletics and Duathlon (it was going to be Triathlon, but swimming was removed because of how cold the waters are of the Lake of the Parque de la Independencia and then only running and cycling will be competed).
Athletics, which is the only one that does not debut in these Games, and Duathlon will be the two disciplines in which medals will be awarded tomorrow.
For its part, and given the large number of competitions, there will be activity again between 8 and 18, the Fan Fest will reopen tomorrow at the same time.
Located on Oroño Boulevard, from Cochabamba Street to February 27, the entire city will be able to enjoy the proposal that was attended by more than 600,000 people from Rosario last weekend.
To this will be added the return of guided visits to schools in the city and the region and there will also be pre-sports spaces, a gastronomic square and activations of sponsors and E-Sports, reported the organization of Rosario 2022.
