Santo Domingo, April 14. The Dominican Republic will participate in the San Salvador 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games, which begin in 70 days, with the largest delegation in the history of its participation in this competition, with around 480 athletes and almost 700 people in total.
The country will also host the XXIV Games, which will take place between June 23 and July 8, and will host seven disciplines: taekwondo, modern pentathlon, canoeing, field hockey, racquetball, equestrian, and shotgun shooting. .
The Dominican athletes classified for the event total 429 so far, distributed among the 356 who will travel to the Salvadoran capital and the 73 who will compete in their own country.
“Right now we have several sports and modalities to define, among which are athletics, bodybuilding, golf, judo, open water (swimming), surfing, soccer in the beach category, tennis, table tennis, weight lifting , gymnastics and taekwondo,” the technical director of the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD), Juan Febles Dalmasí, told EFE.
Febles explained that, at the end of these classifications, the Dominican delegation hopes to increase the final number that will compete in the Games by about 60 athletes.
The sports in which the Dominican Republic will compete will be athletics, badminton, chess, traditional and 3×3 basketball, handball, baseball, bowling, boxing, cycling, swimming, fencing, bodybuilding, soccer, gymnastics, golf, judo, karate and weightlifting.
In addition, wrestling, skating, rowing, softball, tennis, archery, table tennis, precision shooting, triathlon, sailing, volleyball and netball or netball, which debuts at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
To these sports are added the seven that the country will host as a sub-venue.
As for the number of medals that could be achieved, the Dominican Olympic authorities prefer to “wait” for the classifications to finish to offer a “finished forecast” in this regard.
“No, we have not yet sat down with the technicians, we will do that in the next few days. We have to wait because there are still qualifying events and after that we will sit down to analyze with the entire delegation,” the president of the COD told EFE. Garibaldy Bautista.
In the last edition of Barranquilla 2018 (Colombia), the Dominican Republic ranked fifth in the medal table, the same position it held in Veracruz 2014 (Mexico).
In Barranquilla the Dominicans won 107 medals, 25 gold, 29 silver and 53 bronze. EFE
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