Diario Extra – Costa Rican athletes shone despite pandemic

• Keylor Navas
Discipline: soccer
* Champion of the French League 1, the French Cup, the French League Cup and the French Super Cup with PSG. He also reached the final of the Champions, where he fell by the minimum against Bayern Munich.

• Noelia Vargas
Discipline: athletics
* New Central American record in 10,000 meters marches with a time of 45: 49.26, breaking a record in force since 2009. He added important points in his aspiration to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

• Joel Campbell
Discipline: soccer
* Champion of the 2020 Guard1anes Tournament of Mexican soccer with the Lion. Determining figure for the Fiera to get the eighth title in its history. First Attic Monarch on Aztec soil in the last 64 years.

• Diana Brenes
Discipline: judo
* Bronze medal in the -78 kilos category of the Senior Pan American Judo Championship, which took place in Mexico. Silver medal in the Absolute Spanish Judo Championship.

• Andrey Amador
Discipline: cycling
* In his first season with the Ineos team, he ran two of the great tours of the year: the Tour de France, where he ranked 77, and the Tour of Spain, where he finished 52nd in the general classification.

• Miracle Mena
Discipline: cycling
* Winner of the National Cross Country Championship, the Central American Road Championship and the National Endurance Marathon Cup. He was supposed to race in Italy during 2020, but the pandemic changed his plans.

• Luis Díaz
Discipline: soccer
* MLS Champion with the Columbus Crew. He played 25 games this season, 17 as a starter, gave 5 assists, including one in the final against Seattle Sounders. Monarch fourth penthouse on American soil.

• Daniela Solera
Discipline: soccer
* The goalkeeper was proclaimed national champion in Colombia with Independiente de Santa Fe after defeating América de Cali in the final. Second title of his career, first champion Tica on coffee soil.

• Cali Muñoz
Discipline: surf
* Gold medal in the ALAS tournament (of the Latin American Association of Professional Surfers), which took place in La Bocana beach, in El Salvador. Good omen in search of the ticket to the 2021 Olympic Games.

• Joshua Núñez
Disciplina: karate
* The 18-year-old national team won first place in the European Continental Karate World Virtual Tournament, in the Male Elite Senior Kata modality, after beating a rival from the United States in the final.