2023-10-24 20:28:57
The participation of José Luis Acuña at the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile 2023 It ended this Tuesday. Was in the kyorugi taekwondo team competition with the Argentine team that could not beat Brazil in the round of 16 and was left without a chance of a medal.
After Saturday’s great performance, in the category up to 68 kilos, where the native of Plottier managed to win the bronze medal In his first foray into a senior Pan American tournament, this Tuesday he had the opportunity to share a team with Lucas Guzmán and Agustín Alves.
He Albiceleste trident debuted in the competition against Brazil and equal battalion, but was defeated 101 to 95 with just under a minute left in the third and last round.
Acuña had good interventions every time he had to enter the tatami to fight, either against the rival of the same category or a different one. His best moment came in the second round, when he raised ten points and equalized the procedure between Argentines and Brazilians.
This is how the Neuquén’s participation in Santiago 2023 came to a close, in which he managed to win the bronze medal thanks to winning the repechage over the Uruguayan Federico González Gómez and then in the final fight against the Colombian Felipe Paz.
Two silver medals for Argentina in racquetball
The female Argentine couple racquetball, formed by Natalia Méndez and María José Vargas, and then Vargas with Diego García in the mixed doubles, won two silver medals today at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
In the women’s doubles final, Mendez and Vargas fell 11-2, 8-11, 14-12 and 11-6 to Guatemalans Gabriela Martinez and Maria Rodriguez (Independent Athletes Team), and took second place.
In the final of mixed double, Vargas and Diego García (another born in Bolivia who represents Argentina) They fell to the United States couple, Adam and Erika Manila, 3-0 (11-4, 11-4 and 11-6) and won the silver medal.
First medals for Argentina in rowing
Las Argentine duos made up of Sonia Baluzzo and Evelyn Silvestro, and Alejandro Colomino and Pedro Dickson got today bronze medals in rowing at the Pan American Games of Santiago 2023 in Chile.
Sonia Baluzzo Chiaruzzo and Evelyn Maricel Silvestro got on the podium in the short rowing double pair test women’s lightweight, in which they had a time of 7:15.27, behind the Chileans Antonia Leonor Liewald Heise and Isidora Niemeyer Walbaum (gold), and the Americans Mary Wilson and Elizabeth Martin (silver).
In the same men’s event, Dickson and Colomino completed the regatta in 6:27.26 and also achieved bronze. The Mexicans Miguel Ángel Carballo Nieto and Alexis Bladimir López García took the gold medal, while the Chileans César David Abaroa Pérez and Eber Sebastián Sanhueza Rojas took the silver.
Argentine triumphs in tennis
Argentine tennis players Facundo Díaz Acosta, in the men’s singles, Julia Riera, Lourdes Carlé and Martina Capurro Taborda, in the women’s singles team, presented themselves with triumphs at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
Díaz Acosta, first seed, beat Venezuelan Brandon Pérez 6-2 and 6-1 in his debut in the second round and advanced to the round of 16 of the Games. Facundo Bagnis narrowly defeated Bolivian Federico Zeballos yesterday by 6-2, 6-7 (4) and 7-6 (2).
In the women’s box, Julia Riera, Lourdes Carlé and Martina Capurro obtained easy wins in their presentations and they also got into the round of 16.
Quarterfinals in beach volleyball for the female duo
Ana Gallay and Fernanda Pereyra defeated the Dominican duo Julibeth Payano-Bethania Almanzar and qualified for the beach volleyball quarterfinals at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
Gallay from Entre Ríos (8 points) and Pereyra from San Juan (16) They were superior to the Dominicans and won 21-18 and 21-15 in 40 minutes of game.
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