2023-11-05 03:01:00
Argentine basketball also spread joy during the day on Saturday by winning the final of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games once morest Venezuela, although the competition does not grant Olympic tickets.
The victory was by a comfortable 79 to 65 (the advantage was 26 points entering the last quarter) for the team whose scorers were forward Bautista Lugarini (Instituto de Córdoba) with 17 points, Franco Baralle (Minas Tennis of Brazil) with 15 and Javier Saiz (Institute) with 12 and 10 rebounds.
The Argentine road to gold began with tight wins in the group stage over Venezuela (95 to 88 in overtime), the Dominican Republic (82 to 81 also in extra time) and Panama (85 to 77). While in the semifinals, Mexico was beaten (108 to 73).
This is the third Pan American gold medal that the Argentine National Team has achieved in its history, adding to those from Mar del Plata 1995 and Lima 2019.
The Olympic qualification was already a thing of the past, with the successive defeats in the FIBA Qualifiers – and the consequent non-participation in the World Cup – and the Olympic Pre-Qualifiers. In Paris 2024, a string of five consecutive Olympic appearances will be broken, with gold in Athens 2004 as the maximum achievement.
For its part, Brazil took the Pan American bronze following beating Mexico 73-61.
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