2023-10-21 20:50:07
José Luis Acuña did not have the dream debut at the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile 2023, but Fortune smiled on him and now he will have the chance to fight for the bronze medal to bring it to Neuquén. In a few minutes He will compete against the Canadian Pietro Park to try to get on the podium this Saturday.
The taekwondo player from Plottierwho a few years ago had decided to retire from official competition, returned with everything and is one step away from winning a medal at the great sports event on the American continent.
After having been silver medal at the Cali 2021 Junior Pan American Games, in the category up to 59 kilograms, José Luis focused fully together with Sebastián Crimanich (gold at the 2012 London Olympics), He worked piecework and today luck returned him so much effort.
This was the path of José Luis Acuña in Santiago 2023
The thing is The story for Neuquén did not start well in Santiago. He debuted in the round of 16 against the Dominican Bernardo Piebut fell without mitigation by 2-0 (with partials of 10-7 and 15-2). The fall left him with almost no chance of staying alive in the contest, but His rival advanced to the semifinals and gave him the option to continue.
This way, Acuña had the chance to fight in the repechage for the bronze medal and it did not fail. The Neuquén He beat the Uruguayan Federico González with authority 2-0 (with partials of 8-4 and 13-4). In a few minutes will go for the bronze medal in the category up to 68 kilos against the Canadian Pietro Park.
Lucas Guzmán goes for the gold medal in tae kwon do
The Argentinian Lucas Guzmán defeated the Brazilian Paulo Souza de Melo 2 to 0 in one of the semifinals of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Gamessecured the silver medal and Later he will go for the gold against the Mexican Brandon Plaza Hernández.
The athlete from Merlo, 29 years old, He had a very tight end to the second round against Souza de Melo and this afternoon, not before 7 p.m.will face the Mexican Plaza Hernández in the final for gold, who beat the Canadian Braven Temuco Park 2-1.
The Argentinian, who fights in the category up to 58 kilos, won the gold medal at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, while in Toronto 2015 he had achieved bronze. In addition, the taekwondo player holds a bronze medal in a World Cup, in 2019, in Manchester, England.
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