The Cuban delegation was left with 15 of the 18 golds that the fight delivered in the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador and Santo Domingo, in which Venezuela scratched two gold medals and Colombia one.
In the last day, played this Saturday, the Cubans won three titles, while Venezuela won two at the Cuna del Mágico Coliseum, in the Salvadoran capital.
The first winner of the day was the Cuban Osmany Diversent who achieved the epic and came back from a 0-4 loss against the Dominican Juan Ramírez and took the gold medal home with a score of 7-6 in the 57-kilogram division.
The bronze in that category went to Puerto Rican Jacob Morán, who beat Venezuelan Víctor Parra in the medal match.
In the 65 kilograms, the Island reaped its second gold of the day with Alejandro Valdés, who subdued Puerto Rican Sebastián Rivera in the final. The Colombian Uber Cuero climbed to the third step of the podium, who also defeated the Jamaican Jordan Mitchell without much difficulty.
The Cuban Yurieski Torreblanca hung the gold, the Colombian Carlos Izquierdo, who kept the silver, did not appear in the final of the 86 kilograms, a division in which the bronzes were awarded to the Venezuelan Pedro Ceballos and the Puerto Rican Ethan Ramos .
The last gold for the Island on the day was achieved in the 97 kilograms by Arturo Silot, who in a very close fight broke Maxwell Lacey’s illusion of giving Costa Rica its first gold in this edition of the Central American Games with an 8-6 victory. and the Caribbean.
In the last day, played this Saturday, the Cubans won three titles, while Venezuela won two at the Cuna del Mágico Coliseum
The third place in the box was occupied by the Mexican Pedro Garay and the Dominican Luis Pérez.
Venezuela, meanwhile, won its first gold in the fight with an extraordinary performance by Anthony Montero, who beat Dominican Julio Rodríguez 3-1 in the final of the 74-kilogram division.
Cuba took one of the bronzes with Franklin Maren, who defeated the Nicaraguan Eliezer Baltodano, while the other was won by the Puerto Rican Franklin Gómez, who beat the Colombian Hernán Guzmán.
The last fight of the San Salvador Games was won by the Venezuelan José Díaz against the Puerto Rican Jonovan Smith in the 125 kilograms by three to one. The Jamaican Aaron Johnson and the Cuban Ibrahim Torres completed the category podium.
This Saturday night the first match in the men’s basketball category between Cuba and El Salvador was also played, in which the Cuban delegation defeated its host with 86 out of 56 at the José Adolfo Pineda National Gymnasium.
Yamil Bukele, president of the Salvadoran Basketball Federation and the National Sports Institute of El Salvador (Indes), assured that this meeting broke the attendance record registered in the first week of the competition, with “10,400 fans seated and a few more standing”. the salvadoran newspaper The world He described that on the sports stage “not even a pin could fit”.
Until this Sunday, Cuba is the third favorite on the board, with 107 medals (45 gold, 29 silver and 33 bronze). At the top is Mexico with 190 awards and Colombia with 113.
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