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The capital will be with 28 athletes in the competition, representing Colombia, which seeks to defend the title achieved in Bogotá two years ago.
Bogotá, October 31, 2025.- With the opening ceremony on Friday night, and the table tennis competitions, the VI Junior Parapan American Games begin in Santiago, Chile, which will run until November 9 and will have 1,100 athletes from 27 countries competing.
These Games will be played in 14 sports disciplines, which are para-swimming, para-athletics, 5×5 wheelchair basketball, 3×3 wheelchair basketball, boccia, para-archery, sitting volleyball, wheelchair tennis, blind football, goalball, parajudo, PC football, parapowerlifting and table paratennis.
Colombia, which will have 124 athletes in action, of which 28 are from Team Bogotá (22.58 percent of the team), will seek to endorse the title achieved in 2023 in Bogotá, where it won with 106 medals in total (52 gold, 30 silver and 24 bronze), followed by Argentina with 85 (36-26-23), Mexico with 75 (33-22-20), Brazil with 52 (30-13-9) and Ecuador with 23 (15-7-1).
Team Bogotá athletes will compete in 11: blind 5-a-side soccer (2 athletes), 5×5 wheelchair basketball (4), 3×3 wheelchair basketball (2), parapowerlifting (3), table paratennis (2), para-athletics (3), 7-a-side soccer (2), wheelchair tennis (2), boccia (2), paraswimming (5) and parajudo (1).
They will try to surpass what was achieved in Bogotá 2023, when they won 30 medals for Colombia (15 gold, 10 silver and 5 bronze), where Sara Vargas (6 gold and 1 bronze), Ionis Salcedo (4 gold), Julián Chinchilla (2 gold), Gabriela Oviedo (1 gold and 3 silver), Michelle López (2 silver), Jhoan Gasca (1 silver) and Johan peña shone. (1 bronze).
For Santiago de Chile 2025, the medalists from Team Bogotá who repeat the Games are Johan Sebastián Peña (5×5 wheelchair basketball), Gabriela Oviedo (paraswimming), Johan Gasca (parapowerlifting), Julián Chinchilla (table paratennis) and Michelle López (wheelchair tennis).
The chosen ones
The roster of Team Bogotá in the II Junior Parapan American Games is as follows:
-Blind 5-a-side soccer (2): Ronald David Madrid Hernández and Johan Herney Hernández Camargo.
-Wheelchair basketball 5×5 (4): Johan Sebastián Peña Romero, Óscar Eduardo Monsalve Torres, Carlos Andrés Calderón Macías and Federico López Rodríguez.
-Wheelchair basketball 3×3 (2): Caren Vanessa Dueñas Urrego and Caren Natalia Barreto Sarmiento.
-Parapowerlifting (3): Kevin Andrés Pinzón Hernández, Jhoan Danilo Gasca Beltrán and Alison Arianna Fajardo Reyes.
-Table tennis (2): Julián Andrés Chinchilla Ramos (class 9) and Juan Pablo Bermúdez Ávalo (class 8).
-Para athletics (3): Emily Camila Valencia Castilla (T37), Samuel Bueno Forero (T32) and Carlos Lorenzo Sánchez Montero (T37).
-Football 7 PC (2): Julián David Velasco Buenahora and Cristian Felipe Espitia González.
-Wheelchair tennis (2): Darío Antonio Martínez Sánchez and Paula Michelle López Mesa.
-Boccia (2): Adrián Meléndez Fierro (BC4) and Michel Díaz Vargas (BC1).
-Paraswimming (5): Juan Manuel Barahona Jerena (S4), Gabriela Oviedo Rueda (S5), Julián Santiago Triana Villaco (S6), Laura Valentina Ladino Arizmendi (S7) y Cristian Esneider Barreto Agatón (S7).
-Parajudo (1): David Santiago Noriega Trujillo (J1).
On the opening day Julián Chinchilla and Juan Pablo Bermúdez began playing table paratennis, and this Saturday they will be in action:
-Wheelchair tennis
8:00 am: Darío Martínez vs. André Alberca (Peru)
9:15 am: Michelle López vs. María Fernanda Arones (Peru)
-Wheelchair basketball 5×5
1:00 p.m.: Colombia vs. Argentina.
-Table tennis
3:00 pm: Colombia vs. Rival to be defined. Mixed doubles (Julián Chinchilla)
IDRD COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY OFFICE – BULLETIN 621
