The competition that began on Saturday and will run until October 15 will have seven representatives from Río Negro in five different disciplines.
The soccer team has players Martina Krotter and Yuliana Sanabria on its squad. In canoeing will be Gonzalo Lo Moro and Manuel Lascano. Martina Escudero will be the athletics representative. Rodrigo Jara will compete in judo and Ivan Nikolajuk will compete in archery.
The XII Odesur Asunción 2022 Games, which will bring together 4,698 athletes from 15 countries in the region, were formally inaugurated this Saturday with the opening ceremony to be held at the traditional Defensores del Chaco stadium in the Paraguayan capital.
The sports program, which will run until October 15, is made up of 34 sports (53 disciplines) that will award a total of 1,336 medals (410 gold, 410 silver and 516 bronze) at the end of the 416 scheduled competitions in 38 scenarios of the cities of Asunción, Luque, Encarnación and Itaipú.
Half of the sports will grant quotas for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games: aquatics -including skiing-, athletics, handball, boxing, bowling, cycling, equestrian, field hockey, karate, speed skating, rugby 7, squash, tennis, table tennis, archery, shooting and triathlon.
The other activities on the Asunción 2022 calendar will be chess, badminton, basketball, bowls, canoeing, fencing, bodybuilding, soccer, gymnastics, golf, judo, weights, wrestling, paddle tennis, rowing, skateboarding, taekwondo, sailing and volleyball.
The 15 countries that will take part in the Games will be Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Curaçao, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Argentina will attend the event with 592 athletes (289 women and 303 men) who will participate in the 36 sports and in all modalities except for 5×5 basketball and men’s indoor volleyball.
The contingent sets a new participation record, surpassing the largest group (545 athletes) that had participated in Medellín 2010.
