The Guatemalan badminton player, Kevin Cordón, made his debut on the right foot this Saturday at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, beating the American Justin Ma 2-0.
Hours after María Alejandra Higueros Luna won the first medal for our country, in the taekwondo poomsae modality, Cordón gave a good feeling by starting the championship in the best way, with her victory by 13-21 and 12-21 in the first round.
Now, the golden left-hander will have to face the winner of the duel that preceded his participation at the Olympic Training Center, where Yonathan José Linarez from the Dominican Republic and the Salvadoran, Manuel Alfonso Mejía Ramírez, faced each other. This match was resolved with the victory of the Dominican, also by 2-0 (21-14 and 21-13).
Let us remember that fourth place in Tokyo 2020 came from falling to the Japanese Takuma Kawamoto 2-1 with partials of 12-21, 21-16 and 21-14, in the final battle of the Peru-2023 Challenge held at the sports complex. San Luis, in Lima on September 24. Before that, he played in the final of the Guatemala International Challenge, where he also won silver against the Brazilian, Ygor Coelho.
Let us remember that the native of La Unión, Zacapa, is the player with the most medals in the singles event of the Pan American Games. Since, during his career, he has obtained 4 in total, which are distributed as follows: 2 gold (2011 and 2015), 1 silver (2007) and 1 bronze (2019).
For this reason, in this edition of the championship, Kevin is in search of his fifth Pan American medal.
2023-10-21 18:17:54
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