Canada and Puerto Rico, with first and third place in the Continental Archery Qualification Tournament of the Americas, were left this Tuesday with two places in women’s for Paris 2024, while in men’s the two places were awarded to Colombia and the Islands. Virgins of the United States.
Georgian archer Kristine Esebua, who competes for Canada, won the gold medal by beating her teammate Virginie Chenier 6-4 in a final that guaranteed the Olympic berth in Medellín for the Canadian delegation.
“It was hard to compete against Virginie. There was pressure, but at the same time it relaxed me to know that we have already trained together,” Esebua told Agencia EFE and then specified that she will not be in the tournament in Paris, despite having won the qualifying tournament. .
“I am happy and at the same time a little sad because I will not be able to go to the Olympics, I do not have Canadian citizenship, I do not have a passport. I am proud of the work I did in winning the place for Canada,” explained the 39-year-old goalkeeper, who represented to Georgia in Athens-2004, Beijing-2008, London-2012 and Rio-2016.
For Puerto Rico it was a memorable day with the bronze won by Alondra Rivera by beating, after a 5-5, with a decisive arrow her compatriot Nilka Cotto for the pass to Paris 2024 and thus ending a cycle of 28 years of absence, since She will be the first Puerto Rican goalkeeper in the Olympics since Atlanta 1996 with María Reyes.
“The emotion is high for such a great result. I couldn’t ask for more,” Rivera, 22, told World Archery.
In the second hour, the Continental Archery Qualifier of the Americas, which was held at the Belén Sports Unit, defined the men’s Olympic quotas, the first of them for the Colombian Santiago Arcila with his brilliant performance against the American Virgin Nicholas D’Amour, whom he beat 6-2 in the final.
“It is gratifying and exciting that everything was fulfilled. I achieved the quota and became champion, I couldn’t have done better (…) I was good in each round, with very good averages,” summarized the Colombian after his conquest at home.
For his part, D’Amour, silver in the competition in Medellín, took second place in Paris after beating the Argentine Mario Jajarabilla in a semi-final in which a tiebreaker was necessary, but in the gold contest he lost his way and could not revalidate his favorite status.
The bronze went to the Argentine Jajarabilla with his resounding 6-0 victory against the Salvadoran Oscar Ticas, whom Arcila left in the semifinal with a 6-2 that represented qualification for the Olympics.
For its part, this Wednesday the curtain will rise on the Pan American Archery Championship with the dispute for team quotas for Paris 2014, when 206 archers from 23 countries will take action in Medellín (68 archers from 19 countries in the Olympic qualification ).
Likewise, competitions will take place in the compound modality to deliver six places for the World Championship to be held in Chengdu (China).
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2024-04-10 03:08:02
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