The Vallecaucana received the Fair Play award at the Pan American Games in Santiagothe fair play statuette at the Panam Sports Awards, the Guillermo Cano Athlete of the Year award from El Espectador and the Altius Fair Play from the Colombian Olympic Committee.
“If you raise the laso with just your hands, Yuri completes the trip,” coach Ruperto Guauña told a young girl who had just started judo in Jamundí; She accepted the challenge, went up and Yuri complied, she was able to travel to compete and, 10 years later, that girl is champion of the Central American and Caribbean Games and the owner of all the Fair Play awards in America, for a unique action in the Pan American Games in Santiago.
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With effort, dedication, the unconditional support of Jackeline Arias and a lot of discipline, Erika Andrea Lasso Arias is today an example to the world of Olympic values, sporting excellence, friendship in sport and respect for life, to be the pride of his grandmother Aurora, his brother Brandon, his aunt Adriana, his cousins Danna and Joanly and his nephew Jean Paul.
On Saturday, December 9, he received the Fair Play Award at the Panam Sports Awards 2023, on Monday, December 11, he won the Guillermo Cano Fair Play distinction at the El Espectador Athlete of the Year Awards and this Thursday, January 18, he premiered the Altius Juego Clear of the Colombian Olympic Committee, thanks to his noble gesture with the Dominican Estefanía Soriano in the first judo match of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, where after winning the duel, he carried her up because she could not walk.
But this achievement of a public action is the reflection of a private life full of effort, sadness, joy, struggle to get ahead, finding in judo and the support of his mother, a lifestyle that is an example and that he still has a way to go, because at 24 years old, there are still many competitions and sporting dreams to fulfill.
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