The Salvadoran shared the podium with Canadian Brian Yang, gold medalist, and Kevin Cordón, independent athlete, who secured silver, while the second bronze went to Mexican Luis Garrido.
CHILE.- The athlete, Uriel Canjura, received the bronze medal he won in the individual modality in badminton at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
At the ceremony, the Salvadoran shared the podium with Canadian Brian Yang, gold medalist, and Kevin Cordón, independent athlete, who secured silver, while the second bronze went to Mexican Luis Garrido.
“It’s a lot of emotion, it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever felt, seeing the El Salvador flag there, it’s something incredible, but I was left wanting to hear the El Salvador anthem at the games,” said Uriel Canjura, medalist in Santiago. 2023.
“This helps me a lot in qualifying for the Olympic Games, but we have to keep pushing,” he added about his participation in the Paris 2024 Games and said that the list is closed in April and that for the moment he is among the participants.
Uriel commented again that when the national flag was raised it was his best moment of these games and that he wants to enjoy this achievement. “I can’t explain to you what it felt like to see the flag of El Salvador, to see the blue and white there in the middle of the best in America, thank God I was able to get a medal and now to enjoy it.”
“It’s very nice, I liked the back and I enjoyed it,” Uriel commented about the medal. “Thanks to everyone who was attentive and to the other athletes, let’s fight because we can do it,” he concluded with a message to El Salvador.
#Sports | “It is a lot of emotion, it is the greatest thing I have ever felt, seeing the flag of El Salvador there, it is something incredible, but I was left wanting to hear the anthem of El Salvador at the games”, Uriel Canjura, medalist in Santiago 2023 . pic.twitter.com/UZ181KaUal
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2023-10-26 02:15:04
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