Yesterday the Pan American Youth Championship and Masters 2024 began with the qualifying round of the compound and recurve bow modalities in the U15, U18, U21 and Masters categories of the 21 nations that visit us.
The archers shot 72 arrows to define the positions for the elimination round and determine who they will face in the individual, mixed and team categories.
In U21 individual recurve, Salvadoran Justin Rivera (607) was fourteenth and will face Richard Abramson from the Dominican Republic. While Luis Avilés finished in box 20 (543 points) and will face the Brazilian Eduardo Diamantino.
In the U18 category, Jesús Castro finished in box 17 (580) and goes against the Peruvian Valentino Sánchez. While William Sullivan, ranked 18th (579) in the qualifying round, will face the Canadian Mao Richard. For his part, the national Andrés Hernández was ranked 19th (570) and will fight against the Brazilian Alex Nakahama.
In the U15 men’s recurve category, the Salvadoran Ángel Martínez (629 points) was sixth and will face the Colombian Nicolás Gómez in the next stage.
While in men’s 50+ recurve, nationals Jaime Díaz, eighth with 487, and Juan San Lorenzo, tenth with 393, will face Scott Sullivan and Javier Rivas, from Costa Rica, respectively.
In the compound bow modality, women’s U21 category, the Salvadoran Jennifer Gómez shot 663 points and placed herself in box 11, and Gabriela Argueta, who shot 613 and was 18, will face the Guatemalans Itcel Composeco and Claudia de la Cruz, respectively.
In the U18 individual women’s compound, the national goalkeeper Camila Merino was placed in box 13 (617) and will compete against the Colombian María José Quintero. While Gabriela González (14th position with 521 points) will shoot against the Colombian Michelle Cardona.
The U15 women’s team will face the Salvadoran Nahomy Campos, who finished third (645) and goes against the Colombian Susana Monsalve.
The national Héctor Vigil of the Barebow 50+ category will compete for the gold medal against the Canadian Dragos Olarescu, since they are the only participants in that category.
The national U18 men’s recurve bow team made up of Jesús Castro, Andrés Hernández and William Sullivan completed the qualifying round in fourth place (1,729) and will face the Brazilians Félipe Fogliarini, Carlos Batista and Alex Nakahama.
The Salvadoran goalkeeper, Justin Rivera, from the under 21 category, commented on his impressions about the first day of competitions of the Pan American Youth Championship and Masters 2024, after his participation in the morning.
“The first day of the championship has been very busy, with quite a few emotions on the line, but you have to learn to control them, because the level of your rivals is very good, so you have to keep a cool mind in the face of pressure. These are my first and last Pan American Games as a youth and I am excited to see how the federation organized the event,” he commented.
For his part, Juan San Lorenzo, who competes in the +50 masters, spoke about his first experience competing in an event of such magnitude.
“Just the fact of being here is a great emotion, especially because it is my first time in a Pan American Championship. It is an honor to represent my country, this has been my dream for years and I am satisfied to achieve it at my age. I have been practicing it for more than two years and it has helped me focus on technique, it gives me confidence in the competition,” he explained.
During today’s intense day, the national archers had the support of the parathlete, Ever Lemús, who arrived at the Jorge Jiménez Archery Range of the Merliot Sports Complex, exclusively to send good vibes to the members of the Salvadoran delegation.
“I come to support all the Salvadoran athletes in this beautiful event. I am excited to see so many athletes from different countries, it is great to witness how archery is happening in El Salvador. I consider the organization of this event to be fabulous and I wish the archers all the best,” he stressed.
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