2023-10-21 07:34:06
The Argentine hope that the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games will be a springboard to the Paris 2024 Olympics does not displace the challenge of repeating, at least, the Lima 2019 medal harvest, with hopes in hockey, rugby, handball and boxing, among others. disciplines.
“We have doubled the budget in the National High Performance Entity for better preparation of all the teams and athletes that represent us,” said the government secretary of Sports, Inés Arrondo, Olympic silver and bronze medalist with Las Leonas.
Precisely, the women’s hockey team is the team with the best harvest of international success, with five Olympic podiums, three silver and two bronze, among other achievements.
The Pumas 7 march to the Chilean event with the aim of retaining the title won in Lima 2019, after the bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. “They have not only won games, but also the respect and admiration of the international community” , commented coach Santiago Gómez Cora.
In canoeing there is Sabrina Ameghino, in her sixth Pan American Games. She will join the K4 along with former cyclist Walter Pérez. Ameghino is Argentina’s top medal winner in Pan American Games, with nine.
Another candidate for the podium is middle distance runner Belén Casetta, finalist at the 2017 London World Cup, bronze at the 2019 Lima Pan American Games and gold at the 2022 Odesur Games in Asunción in the 800 meters hurdles.
In handball, Los Gladiadores aim high and defend the Lima 2019 title, with a historic harvest of two golds, three silvers and two bronzes. In tennis, Facundo Bagnis returns to the Pan American Games after winning gold in singles in Toronto 2015, and in swimming, expectations lie with Mónica Hein.
An intense Saturday with 26 finals
Twenty-six finals will be played today, on the first day of the finals of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, which opened yesterday with the opening ceremony at the National Stadium. Swimming, with eight finals, attracts attention on this first day of new continental champions.
The following are the 26 finals that will be held today: Mountain bike cycling, Men’s Olympic cross country, Women’s Olympic cross country, Diving, Women’s 10m platform, Men’s 1m springboard, Swimming, Women’s 400m freestyle, Men’s 400m freestyle, Women’s 100m backstroke, 100m men’s backstroke, women’s 200m butterfly, men’s 200m butterfly, women’s 4x100m freestyle, men’s 4x100m freestyle, sport climbing, women’s speed, artistic gymnastics, weightlifting, Skateboarding, women’s street, men’s street, Taekwondo, men’s individual poomsae, women’s individual poomsae (-49kg female kyorugi, -58kg male kyorugi, -68kg male kyorugi), Shooting, Female 10m Air Rifle, Male 10m Air Rifle.
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