Formosa: A Legacy in Argentine Sport | agenfor

The first Argentine high performance games (Jadar) Rosario 2025 passed

Rosario and the Subsces of Santa Fe and Rafaela marked a milestone for the history of Argentine sport, between September 9 and 14, our country lived their own Games of Olympic and Paralympic spirit, now in nothing more it will be the same for athletes, coaches, officers, judges and Argentine leaders, the Olympic cycle will start in our country, a year after a year after a summer. and one before the South American Games (ODESUR), with its own national games, which will gather from now on the elite of national high performance.

The Argentine High Performance Games, were for a little more than a year organized by the Argentine Olympic Committee and the Argentine Paralympic Committee, which, together with the Government of the Cities of Rosario, Santa Fe, Rafaela and the Government of the Province of Santa Fe, formed an organizing committee and managed to bring together more than 3000 athletes of the 24 district of the country, which participated in more than 50 Olympic disciplines and Paralympic

From now on, the Jadar, are the maximum multisport event that Argentina has, and thus initiating the new Olympic calendar and as a prelude to the South American Games (Odesur), which next year in its XIII edition would be held in these three Santa Fe cities, that is to say that these games also served as a prelude and prepare the land.

It will be the third time that Argentina housed the South American Games, did so in its II edition in 1982, precisely in the city of Rosario and in its number VIII edition in Buenos Aires 2006, also Rosario already knew how to host the IV South American Games of Beach 2019 (the first in Playa de Rio) and the III South American Games of Youth in 2022.

The Jadar marked a milestone that the world speak today the Olympic and Paralympic family, since, of what there are no precedents, is that both Olympic and Paralympic National Committees decided to celebrate a simultaneous games and not waiting for one to end one to start another, demonstrating the world that this can and that the sport is actually one.

Among the 24 Argentine districts (23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires) Formosa said present, the classification to these Games, such as the assembly of regulations and the infrastructure of each conventional or adapted sport ran by the National Federations members of the Olympic or Paralympic Committee and also these institutions that made their ranking and classification system, formose thus obtained in Judo Triathlon, Wushu, Kun Fu and Modern Pentathlon, as well as the large regional, continental or Olympic games based on the Olympic Chart Also the Executive Council of the Argentine Olympic Committee), on the other hand, the Ministry of Sports of Formosa decided to register to accredit the classified athletes that each provincial entity requesting the places obtained, in the aforementioned sports (Judo, Kung Fu, Triathlon and Modern Pentathlon).

The modern pentathlon represented us with a seedbed that is present but also the great future of the discipline, with Luz Fernández, Valdir Fernández, Franco Suárez and Ludmila Bogado, but also the already experienced and so far, the only Olympic Formoseño in an individual sport, Sergio Ali Villamayor Oly (Tokyo 2020) that resides in Hungary, but returns to the country to represent our country to represent our country to represent our country to represent our country to represent our country. In the individual tests the Formoseños were located in female: Luz Fernández in the 5th place and Ludmila bogado in the 9th, in male: Ali Villamayor Oly in the 6th, Valdir Fernández in the 7th and Franco Suárez in the 9th.

There were also relay competitions, in the female, Fernández and Bogado culminated in 4th position very close to the bronze medal and in the masculine, Villamayor Oly and Fernández also in the 4th place, in the mixed relays, Luz Fernández and Ali Villamayor Oly were also located in the 4th place, while the still youth Suarez and bogate in the 7th place. The Head of Pentathlon of Formosa, was Professor Rosana Motrovichi.

The first two medals for Formosa, would be bronze and arrived from judo, the already experienced national representation, from Pirané, Galo Villavicencio in the male category -60 kilos fell into the first fight but could recover in the repechage managing He won the first struggles and fallen in which he would come, he had the opportunity to go for bronze and give us the second medal for Formosa, and he did, in an admirable struggle, where a few seconds of initiates he crowned with a spectacular Ippon. The officer who accompanied the Judo Formoseño in these games, was also the Piranense, Professor Blas Parada.

The triathlon was a party within the jadar, and gave spectacular to the Santa Fe subsede, the Setúbal Lagun They located in the 7th and 12th place respectively, in a very high level test, where gold took nothing more and nothing less than the two -time Olympic Romina Biagioli (Córdoba), in the masculine the gold went to San Juan, with the experienced and ranked world Arias culminated 21.

But it was still on Sunday (last day of the games), the exciting and adrenalinic Mixed Relay Test, where the Formoseño Team, made up of the appointed four classified triathletes, were replaced and throughout the test they gave everything and more, disputing second to second, step by step the bronze medal with San Juan and Entre Ríos, finished in a 5th place with a final sprint And he demonstrated how the soul of a triathlete is truly, Team Formosa was above other Team such as team 2 of Buenos Aires, the Team of Catamarca and the local team of Santa Fe.

Officially and for quotas of the delegations, the Triathlon Team, was directly in charge of the Mission Chief of the Formosa Delegation, Orlando Eugenio Arauz (also president of the Argentine Federation of Triathlon and the South American Confederation of Triathlon) and of Orlando Eugenio Arauz (father), who was accredited in these games as a submEfe of mission.

The final joys for Formosa would come from a sport, which whose participation and inclusion in these games already represented a joy itself, the Wushu Kung Fu that next year will be as an official sport in the IV Olympic Games of Youth (Dakar 2026), the first games to be held in Africa, the jadar were included by the decision of the Argentine Olympic Committee GRILLA DE SPORTS Guest or officers at the Odesur or Pan -American Games, the historic Legion of Wushu Kung Fu of Formosa, made history for the Formoseño sport when we gave us 4 medals, the first would arrive by Yamila Arroyo in an optional female fist with a 7.65 score, hours later Christian Carrizo gave us another bronze and the fourth medal for Formosa in an option 8.22 score and to close the first day of Wushu Kung Fu, Jorge Diaz, in male weapons he gave us another bronze with a score of 8.11, but they still subtracted the finals of the last day of the jadar on Sunday September 14, and Santiago Aquino Stachuk in Tai Chi traditional was close to giving us another show with an excellent score that earned him the fourth place (8,591).

The games already culminated and the delegations were preparing for the closing ceremony, all the provinces had won at least one medal and all except Formosa, at least one gold medal, and it was the last medal that was played in the games, which gave us a joyhistoric and did the already experienced and that with this achievement, it ends up becoming a legend of the formoseño sport, the teacher and ath 8560 points in a traditional male fist, giving us about the end of the long -awaited gold medal for all Formoseños. The Wushu Kung Fu technical chief for Formosa was Professor Matías Diaz.

In this way, a new page of the Formoseño sport was written and we already await for the 2029 edition, to be able to attend with more athletes and that Formosa, in each four -year period can be ascending in the medal. The jadar arrived to make history and change the Argentine and Formosa sport is up to accompany and continue to develop in the high sports performance.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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