Great Sunday for our athletes at the San Salvador 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Today, the yaucana Yarimar Market he won the first gold medal in his career, after four participations in the Central Americans. It was the field of the Salvadoran Shooting Federation that provided everything necessary for the double Olympic air rifle three positions to make La Borinqueña sound.
Likewise, the judoka Adrián Gandía obtained the gold medal in the 81kg when he measured himself against the Cuban Jorge Martínez in 1 minute and 13 seconds. The fight was at the University of El Salvador.
In the same discipline, María Pérez won a silver medal. She faced the Venezuelan Elvismar Rodríguez in the 70kg.
Another silver medal was added to our medal table with the women’s air pistol team, made up of Jennifer Valentín, Abigail Granell and Laura Acosta, who won the first silver medal in history for their discipline.
The feat was in the modality of 10 meters air pistol carried out in the Polígono Estadio Mágico.
At the moment, Puerto Rico has 12 medals: 3 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze.
The mixed duet Javier Ruisánchez and Nicolle Torrens signed the history book of the XXIV Central American and Caribbean Games San Salvador 2023, by competing in the new modality in the contest that takes place at the El Polvorín Sports Complex. It is the first time that artistic swimming includes a mixed duet in its sports programming.
The Puerto Ricans finished in fourth position with 152.8183 points in the technical routine. The podium was occupied by Colombia (217.8867), Mexico (193.7933) and Centro Caribe Sports (Guatemala, 164.0767).
