Cuba said goodbye to the Pan American Major Table Tennis Championships with the gold medal in the women’s team final by beating the Chilean squad.
The final score was 3-1. Along the way, the Cubans left Brazil in the semifinals, and the Chileans left the United States in the semifinals, according to Prensa Latina. Meanwhile, in the men’s division, the United States quartet beat their counterpart from Argentina, with a 3-0 tie.
During the competition, the Brazilian Hugo Calderano won the gold, in the men’s individual, over his countryman Victor Ishiy, 4-0, and in the women’s Ariana Díaz, from Puerto Rico, confirmed her favoritism and defeated the Brazilian Bruna Takahashi with a balance of 4-2.
In the women’s doubles, the Brazilians Giulia Takahashi and Laura Watanabe defeated the Chileans Paulina Vega and Daniela Ortega 3-0, while in the men’s the Argentines Horacio Cifuentes and Santiago Lorenzo defeated the Cubans Andy Pereira and Jorge Campos, 3-0 .
In the mixed doubles, Rio’s Theodoro Guilherme and Giulia Takahashi beat their compatriots Hugo Calderano and Bruna Takahashi, 3-2.
The El Salvador-2024 Pan American Table Tennis Championship, which took place from October 13 to 20, at the Merliot city sports center and, apart from the results, countries like Cuba attended the event to win a place in the world championship. of Qatar-2025.
