Santo Domingo. – The President Luis Abinader received this Monday in the National Palace to Olympic medalists Marileidy Paulino, Yunior Alcántara and Cristian Pinales, who won medals at the 2024 Paris, France Olympic Games.
The Head of State was accompanied by First Lady Raquel Arbaje and Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña.
Paulino won a gold medal by breaking the Olympic record with 48.17 seconds in the women’s 400-meter dash, becoming the first Dominican woman to win a gold medal.
The Dominican sprinter became the fourth fastest woman in history in this discipline and broke the Olympic record, which had been held since July 29, 1996, in Atlanta, by the Frenchwoman Marie-Jose Perec.
At the same time, Paulino became the most Olympic medalist in the history of the Dominican Republic, achieving her third in Paris 2024, after the two silver medals she obtained in Tokyo 2020 in the 400-meter dash and in the 4×400-meter mixed relay race.
While the boxers, Alcántara and Pinales, won bronze in their different divisions. Before, in the boxing discipline, only Pedro Nolasco had won bronze in Los Angeles 1984 and Félix Díaz in Beijing 2008, won gold.
Present were the Minister of Sports, Kelvin Cruz; the president of the Dominican Olympic Committee, Garibaldy Bautista; the president of Centro Caribe Sports and former president of the Dominican Olympic Committee, Luisin Mejía Oviedo; the executive director of Creando
