In a festive ceremony, the Municipality carried out the delivery of the 44th edition of the “Justo Román” Sports Merit Medal and, in addition, the “José Luis Campo” Paralympic and Adapted Sports Medal, in which local young people were highlighted for their performance during the year 2021.
In this framework, Mayor Guillermo Montenegro expressed his gratitude to “athletes for the effort they make every day: you, your families, your teams and many people who help, push and are trying to generate this. Also, back there is a city and each one of you is an ambassador of Mar del Plata”.
Immediately afterwards, the communal chief made special emphasis that “this award has nothing to do with what they won, but with everything that transpired to achieve it. That is why it is a pride for us to see when there is an athlete from Mar del Plata competing and above all in the way they have done it, not only for the sporting part, but also for the values they were transmitting in each of the times they had to compete”, he concluded.
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The 30 shortlists in different disciplines as well as the 31 special mentions were proposed by the Sports Associations and Federations and selected by voting by the Sports Advisory Council.
The winners of the Medal were Valentina Oyola (chess), Leandro Pérez Lazarte (athletics), Facundo Dolce (handball), Juana Barrionuevo (women’s basketball), Gerónimo Salas (men’s basketball), Ramón Echandía (cycling), Franco Alarcón (Paralympic sport) , Ailén García (horse riding), Priscila Araxi (football), Nicole Iribarne Aparicio (artistic gymnastics), Guillermo Polo Bodart (golf), Camila Contreras (field hockey), Matteo Etchechury (judo), Aylén Yardin (karate), Guadalupe García (artistic swimming), Lucía Gauna (swimming), Agustín Gallardo (paddle tennis), Ona Palumbo (figure skating), Agustín Peluso (race skating), Julieta González Ricciuti (rowing), Michael Palanga (roller hockey), Manuel Iglesias (decorative jumps ), Segundo Portabales (squash), Ezequiel Puentes (adapted surfing), Flavia Cianciarulo (surfing), Antonella Mattei (taekwondo), Solana Sierra (tennis), Martín Reynoso (triathlon), Franco Sánchez (sailing), Mauro Zelayeta (volleyball) .
Likewise, the athletes Renzo Zanella (rugby), Diego Fernández (futsal), Camila Pérez (table tennis), Lourdes Magdaleno (canoeing), Clara Nievas (for karate), Lucas Conde (volleyball), Cecilia Peralta (beach volleyball), Valentina Caramello (archery), Sebastián Caram (karting) and Jano Yosha’Oh (skate).
There were special mentions for the representatives at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Leandro “Lele” Usuna, Belén Casetta, Mauricio “Coqui” Ibarbure and Matías De Andrade; the champions of the Copa América Emiliano Martínez and Lucas Martínez Quarta; the winner of the Buenos Aires marathon Florencia Borelli; the South American open water champion Ivo Cassini; to the centenary clubs Independiente, Kimberley and San Lorenzo; to Argentinos del Sud for their first title in the Mar del Plata football league and to Once Unidos for the national title in handball.
Juan Quesada was mentioned as sports director; Ezequiel Valdez as sports coach; Marcela Harispe in collegiate teaching work; Carlos Olivera in sports career; Cesareo Morales as a professional referee; the sports manager Raúl Gazaba; sports journalist Víctor Molinero and professor Gabriel Lorenzón in sports and community activities.
