Ingrit Valencia and Yilmar González Secure Spots for Paris 2024 Olympics: Colombian Boxing Triumphs!

2024-03-12 01:08:00

Íngrit Valencia, legend of women’s boxing in Colombia, will be in Paris 2024.

Photo: AFP – RAUL ARBOLEDA

Boxing gave Colombia new places for the Paris 2024 Games this Monday, at the Pre-Olympic World Championships being held in Italy.

The national delegation, which already included Angie Valdés, Valeria Arboleda and Yeni Arias, who qualified for the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, sealed new tickets from boxing to travel to France.

Ingrit Valencia and Yilmar González were the two boxers who got the new spots for a total of five Colombian boxers for Paris 2024.

Ingrit Valencia, for the third time at the Olympics

The experienced Ingrit Valencia, in the 50 kilogram category, was the first to confirm her Olympic quota for Paris 2024 this Monday, after victory in her decisive battle.

👀🇨🇴🥊 Ingrit Valencia and a new qualification for the Olympic Games 🇫🇷! The Colombian advanced to the semifinals in the 50 kg division at the Boxing Pre-Olympic in Busto Arsizio, Italy, 2024. pic.twitter.com/txqlcWbWsc

— Ministerio del Deporte (@MinDeporteCol) March 11, 2024

The Colombian, who knows what it is like to be runner-up in the world, will play in her third Olympic Games, after beating Natalia Kuczewska of Poland by unanimous decision. The Colombian thus advanced to the semifinals, an instance with which she already guaranteed her place in the Olympic event.

It is worth remembering that the Caucana is an important card for Colombia in Paris, since in the past, at the Rio 2016 Games, Valencia was a bronze medalist in the women’s flyweight.

🥊 Ingrit Valencia qualified for her third Olympic Games! 🛬🇫🇷

🇨🇴 The Colombian advanced to the semifinals in the 50 kg. at the Pre-Olympic Boxing World Cup in Busto Arsizio (Italy) 2024, after defeating Natalia Kuczewska from Poland. #Olympicqualifiers #ColombiaInParis pic.twitter.com/snhpden93a

— COL Olympic Committee (@OlimpicoCol) March 11, 2024

Yilmar González will be in Paris 2024

Yilmar González was the second Colombian to get a place in the Olympic Games this Monday, in the Pre-Olympic Games in Italy.

The boxer got ticket number 39 to Paris 2024, after beating the Chinese Lyu Ping in the quarterfinals of the tournament.

González is the first Colombian male boxer to qualify for the next Olympic Games.

🇨🇴🛫 Yílmar, welcome to the Olympic journey #Paris2024! 🛬🇫🇷

🥊 Colombian puncher Yílmar Gónzalez qualified for the semifinals in the 57 kg division. in the World Pre-Olympic Boxing Championships held in Italy, after defeating the Chinese Lyu Ping. pic.twitter.com/qUdyU405dx

— COL Olympic Committee (@OlimpicoCol) March 11, 2024

Yuberjen Martínez did not make it to the semifinals and will have to look for his ticket to Paris in the next Pre-Olympic, which will be in Bangkok (Thailand) from May 26 to June 2.

The 18 players of the Colombian women’s team will also be in the Olympics; the athlete Lorena Arenas, the current Olympic runner-up in the 20 kilometer walk; the gymnast Luisa Blanco, who has just achieved a perfect score in vault in the USA this week, and Flor Ruiz, who won gold in the javelin throw at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.

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