After 20 days of sports competitions, Armenia, Manizales y Pereira (headquarters) and Bogota, Buenaventura, Cali, Calima, The Darien, Chinchina y Need (sub-headquarters) said goodbye this Thursday, November 29, to the I National Youth Games of our country, an event that represents the impetus for national sports training in the present and in the future.
Antioch He got first place in the medal table thanks to his 293 medals divided into 108 gold, 101 silver and 84 bronze. The runner-up of the contest went to Bogota with a total of 254 (90 gold, 91 silver and 73 bronze), while the Cauca Valley closed the podium with 244 medals (85 gold, 66 silver and 93 bronze).
The medals of Antioch They represented victory in 18 of the 52 sports tournaments: archery, athletics, badminton, women’s 3×3 basketball, men’s 5×5 basketball, women’s handball, men’s handball, bowling, BMX racing cycling, track cycling, road cycling, men’s soccer, swimming races, skating skateboarding, women’s rugby 7, men’s rugby 7, table tennis and men’s floor volleyball, highlighting that the department did not compete in the surfing discipline.
Of the 32 delegations participants in the national competition, 28 won at least one medal, being Guainía, Vaupes, crashed y Putumayo the only ones who did not obtain any medal. The 40 sports disputed, over 20 days of competitions, they delivered more than 1300 medals divided into individual modalities (male and female) and mixed teams.
In total, 5,625 athletes and Para athletes from 32 delegations were present at the I National Youth Gamesso they represent part of the country’s sports reserve, which will be in charge of generational change, in the different sports disciplines, for future national and international competitions.
Tiffany Murillo She was the most successful athlete in the competition and Antioch by achieving a total of 10 medalsnine gold and one silver, in the swimming discipline. For its part, Alice Belotti was the protagonist in the medal table for Bogotawell he harvested seven medals (four golds and three silvers) also in swimming. For its part, Paola Andrea Loboa She was the most outstanding athlete of the Cauca Valley con four medals (all gold) in athletics.
In this way, the Greater Coliseum of Manizales was the headquarters, during the night of this Thursday, November 28, where more than 3.500 personas attended for the closing of the I National Youth Gamesan event that represented the beginning of a new history for sports in training, which is already getting ready for the edition of Sucre and Córdoba 2028.
