Costa Rican judoka Diana Brenes took another gold medal at the Lima Pan American Open by beating Colombian Luisa Bonilla in the women’s -70 kilograms.
Costa Rican judoka Diana Brenes also left the Lima Pan American Open with a gold medal for the -70 kilogram category because her opponent, Colombian Luisa Bonilla, was disqualified via Hansokumake with one minute left in the fight.
In addition to her, Julián Sancho had also achieved the most desired medal of all the day before in this tournament, so the country ends with two golds, a silver and a bronze.
The result allowed Brenes to finish the scoring stage with 564 points in the International Judo Federation (IJF) ranking.
Even so, in the absence of official status that will have to be done in a few days, as other candidates for one of the 11 continental places for women in America took other tournaments where they won more points, the native of Chirraca de Acosta was not able to displace any of them. of them, and everything seems to indicate that Sebastián Sancho Chinchilla will be the judoka qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, since although he finished with 431 points as a result of yesterday’s silver, he is in ninth place among 10 men on the continent benefited from these unique places for each country so that two judokas of the same or different sex cannot be classified by this mechanism.
Sebastián, 25 years old and a resident of Canoas de Alajuela, from a family where they eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and even dream of judo, will take the baton directly from his older brother Ian Ignacio, who was on the tatami in Tokyo three years ago and achieved the first victory of a Costa Rican judoka in the Olympic Games with his brother Julián in the role of physiotherapist and coach.
2024-06-23 00:58:11
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