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Yucatan reached 33 gold medals by winning first place in fencing with the 18-20 year old team, in competitions that take place in the Mexicali Sports City Auditorium.
The team of the 18-20 years of sword category added the second gold medal for Yucatan in this sport. The team is made up of Guillermo Alejandro Cervera Córdova, Ángel Eduardo Pérez Molina, Gerardo Rafael Rojas Solís (he already had a gold medal in singles) and Carlos Adolfo Sosa Campo, who defeated the Jalisco representative 45-40 in the final.
The Guadalajarans came closer in the closing, reaching 35-33, but the Yucatecans pressed to get the gold. Third place went to the Mexico City representative team.
In the women’s branch of this same modality, Yucatan was in sixth position with Natalia Castillo Medrano, Camila Montserrat Chi Herrera and Alondra Mariana Peraza Vargas. The men’s foil team was placed in fourth place and the ladies’ team in sixth.
For its part, the men’s saber team ranked fourth with Esteban Uriel George Batún, Ángel Eduardo Pérez Molina and Pedro Iván Pérez Rosas. They lost the opportunity to fight for the bronze when they fell in the semifinal against Nuevo León.
On the second day of judo competitions, the Yucatecan delegation in Hermosillo was denied the gold medal, but the peninsular team left with one silver and two bronze medals.
Valeria Espinoza Godoy, from the U-18 category, minus 44 kilos division, reached the final, leaving on the way the representatives of Jalisco, Guanajuato, Baja California and Sonora, but faced Kali Olvera, from Hidalgo, in the final. who defeated her.
The bronze medals went to Adán Guzmán Uicab, in minus 40 kilos, and Naomi Vargas Montejo, in 48 kilos. They reached the semi-finals, but lost.— Gaspar Silveira
