Swimming added nine gold medals and has fifteen in the Alba Games – DiarioVea

SEE / Juan Cermeño

Swimming was the most productive discipline for Venezuela on this Sunday, April 23, corresponding to the fifth edition of the Alba Sports Games that are taking place in Caracas, La Guaira and Miranda. This specialty, which stages its tournament in the swimming pool complex of the United Nations Park, in the Venezuelan capital, added nine gold medals and there are already 15 of that metal that total in the first two days of that sport. The combinations of skating, fencing, taekwondo, judo and road cycling also contributed medals.

The ten member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) participate in the sports event: Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Venezuela and Russia that attends as a guest country.

In swimming we have that Nikol Gutiérrez dominated the 100 meter backstroke, with 1 minute, 07 seconds and 10 hundredths, followed by his compatriots Mónica Leydar and Sofía García; while the same test for men was won by Jesús López with a time of 58 seconds, escorted by the also Creole Sebastián Terán and the Cuban Fermín Rodríguez.

The 200-meter breaststroke competition had a podium dominated by locals, with victory for Eric Veit, 2m, 23s, 04cs, escorted by his compatriots José Rivas and Kelvin Cabrera.

Jorge Eliézer Otaiza dominated the 50-meter butterfly, with a time of 24s, 71cs, followed by Emil Pérez, also from Venezuela, while third place and the bronze medal went to Bolivian Esteban Núñez. The Venezuelan Ana Verde, just 14 years old, won the same test for women with 27s, 95cs, escorted by the Bolivian María Ribera, establishing a new national junior A record, surpassing the 28.23 that Fabiana Pesce had since July 2017 .

The two tests of the 200 m freestyle were also won by Venezuelans, in the women’s event María Victoria Yegres prevailed, while the men’s event went to Bryan Chávez, escorted by the brothers from Caracas Emil and Dennis Pérez.

Venezuela also prevailed in the two competitions of the 400-meter medley relay, in the women’s with a time of 4m, 25s and 16cs, followed by the Creole B team, while the third position went to Nicaragua; In men, the hosts dominated with 3m, 02s, 84cs, escorted by Cuba and the B team from Venezuela.

The other three tests of the day were left for the visit. In the women’s 400 m medley, the Cuban Daine Pedré won, with 5m, 07s, 62cs, who was followed by the locals Mónica Leydar and Natalí Medina; while the men’s was won by the Bolivian Esteban Núñez, 4m, 42s, 00cs, and the locals Winston Rodríguez and Raúl Briceño continued. The other competition, the women’s 200m breaststroke, was for the Cuban Daisy Ramírez, with 2m, 40s, 81cs, escorted by her compatriot Daine Pedré and the Venezuelan Alexandra Álvarez.

They put on the skates

In the skating tournament, which takes place on Avenida Teherán de Montalbán and the skating rink of the Teo Capriles complex, in the Venezuelan capital, the hosts obtained the four gold medals in dispute, won by Daniela Bustamante (elimination modality by points). , Wilmary Toro (women’s sprint), José Rojas (1,000 meters) and Juan Herrera (elimination by points).

Bustamante, who added 25 points, was escorted by Angy Quintero (20) and Sofía Cuevas (8); while Toro was followed by Quintero herself and the Cuban Adriana Cantillo. After Rojas came two other compatriots, Gustavo Rodríguez and Edgar Mendoza; Herrera shared the podium with Gustavo Rodríguez and Jefferson Carrillo.

The day of this specialty was accompanied by the mayoress of Caracas, Carmen Meléndez, together with the president of the National Sports Institute, Ninoska Clocier, and the vice minister of Comprehensive Care, Peace and Life, Pablo Yustiz.

Taekwondo at the top

Members of the Venezuelan taekwondo teams climbed to the top of the podium four times during Sunday, a great contribution to the Venezuelan harvest. It is good to remember that our country participates with two delegations in these games, A and B, so it also presents two teams in the different competitions.

In the 68-kilo division, local Luis Acosta defeated Cuban Ángel Fernández in the final, 7-5, leaving the bronze medals for Renato Hernández (Nicaragua) and Venezuelan Alexander Ruiz.

Abraham Vallenilla (Venezuela) dominated the division of less than 74 kilos, beating his compatriot Jhoan Cedeño in the final and the Nicaraguan Jonathan Zuñiga was left with bronze; In -80 kilos another Venezuelan triumphed, Edgar Contreras who defeated David Robleto (Nicaragua) in the final, with bronze medals for Yunier Quintosa (Cuba) and Junior Piñango (Venezuela-B).

The Cuban Zalarit Cortez won the gold of the -57 kilos division after beating the local Alexmar Sulbarán, with bronze for the Bolivian María Áñez and the Creole Naholy Bastillas. In the final of the -62 kilos, two Venezuelans faced each other, with victory for Génesis González (Venezuela-A) against Silmary Martínez (Venezuela-B), bronze for Mariling Venegas (Nicaragua).

Two visitors met in the final of -67 kilos, the Cuban Arlenys Acosta and the Nicaraguan Chrisley Oliva, with victory for the first and bronze medals for the Venezuelans Hilary Clemente (B) and Iveth Riobueno (A).

judo added two

To the two gold medals that Natalia Odremán (-48 kilos) and Audreys Pacheco (-57) won on Saturday in the first day of judo, they added another pair that Ling García (-78 kilos) and Luis Pariche (-90) obtained this Sunday. ), who maintained that his mentality “is always to win. This medal represents effort and discipline”, leaving silver for the Cuban Sergueis Rodríguez and Elvin Reyes (Nicaragua) was in the third place.

As for Ling, his conquest had a very special meaning, “this gold medal is everything to me, because I won it in my first international competition and I had been longing for it for a long time. My fights with the Cuban Lianet Cardona (bronze) and the Nicaraguan Tatiana Valenzuela (silver) were very moving, short but explosive”.

gold in foil

The Venezuelan fencer Antonio Leal climbed to the top of the podium in the foil tournament, in a final that pitted him against his compatriot Janderson Briceño, whom he defeated to win the gold medal, while the bronze medals went to the also Venezuelan César Aguirre and Cuban Carol Rivero.

The other fencing competition held this Sunday was the women’s saber, dominated by the Cuban Leydis Mustelie who in the final beat the Venezuelan Crelia Ramos, leaving the bronze medals for the Creole Luismar Banezca and the Cuban Orquídea Ferrer.

Reinaldo Arocha dominated the route

This Sunday, road cycling closed its schedule with the individual competition, with a 124-kilometer route on José María España de Macuto avenue, in the state of La Guaira, where Reinaldo Arocha, born in El Tigre, Anzoátegui state, prevailed. In the test 23 participants started, representatives of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Dominica.

At the finish line, Arocha was followed by another Venezuelan, Luis Pinto, born in Guárico state, while the third step was occupied by a Tachirense, Luis Mora, so the three medals stayed in the country.

bodybuilding with seven

On Saturday, the entire bodybuilding program was completed, in the theater of the Military Academy of the National Guard, in Fuerte Tiuna, where the Venezuelan team won seven gold medals. Arelys Zambrano won gold by beating her compatriot Antonella Peña, in women’s mail fitness, while José Ojeda dominated in men’s, beating Víctor Arteaga.

Also on the top of the podium were Athenas López (bikini fitness), Alexandra Santos (body finess), José Eurea (men physique), Claudio Nieves and Yoemir Azuaje (bodybuilding category).