Argentine yachting has closed its participation in the South American Games of Asuncion 2022. After a negative performance at last year’s Tokyo event – if we talk about numbers, because for the first time since 1996 no medals have been added -, the national sailors have left their mark in the capital of Paraguay, where won medals in six of the seven classes program, and proved that the sport is in good health, at the beginning of the Olympic road ahead paris 2024.
The collection of the blue and white candle was of three golds, one silver and two bronzes; and allowed the national team to lead the medal table ahead of Peru (3-1-0) and Chile (1-0-1).
The first bream came from the hand of Luciana Cardozoone of the great promises of Argentine sailing, which has won the test of ILCA laser. La porteña swept the waters of Club Mbiguá in the bay of Asunción. He won six of the eight races and in the other two he got a second and a third place (the one discarded), for which he finished with eight points. To accompany her on the podium the Uruguayan Dolores Fraschini (13 units) and the Brazilian Isadora Dal Ri (21).
The sailor of the Yacht Club Olivos had already won a gold medal in Laser Radial at the Odesur of Cochabamba 2018 and gold in the same class in Rosario Beach Pan American Games 2019. Meanwhile, last year, he was bronze in the ILCA Laser in Cali Junior Pan American Gamesin which she was the standard-bearer of Argentina at the opening ceremony.
Francisco Saubidet Birkner, 24, was crowned champion in iQFoil 95, after also finishing in the top three of all races in his class. Who made his Olympic debut last year in Tokyo (21st in RS: X) finished first with 9 points (three first places, four seconds and a third), beating Aruba Malik Hoveling and Brazilian Guilherme Hony Plentz . It was his second medal at the South American Games, after the gold in Techno 293 that he had won in the youth event of Lima 2013. In that class he was also a youth Olympic champion Nanjing 2014.
The third gold came from a more experienced boat, the mixed Snipe of Augusto Amato (50 years) e Florence Galimberti (27). The blue and white duo won three of the eight races – including the first this Thursday – and finished with 12 points. Silver went to Uruguayans Ricardo Fabini and Carolina Rodríguez (17) and bronze to Chileans Matías Seguel and Constanza Seguel (23).
Francesco Guaragna, 25, took silver in the ILCA Laser after finishing third in the first two races of the day and second in the last. The man from Santa Fe, who also played his first Olympics in Tokyo (24th in the Laser), amassed 20 units and was behind Peruvian Stefano Peschiera Loret (gold with 11).
They took the bronzes Martin Alsogaray in Sunfish (repeated the result of Cochabamba 2018) e Chiara Ferrettithe youngest of the team, just 15 years old, in the iQFoil 95 class. The performance of Sofia D’Agostinowho finished fourth in the women’s Sunfish with 23 points, just two points from the podium.
With six medals in seven events, Argentine yachting has met the expectations with which it arrived in Asunción and left very positive feelings for the Olympic cycle that is just starting and will end in Paris in two years.
The great performance of the national sailors in Asunción also brought serenity to one of the sports that gave our country the most podiums in the history of the Olympics, but which in Tokyo did not behave as expected.
In the Japanese capital the best results were the fifth place of the couple Maria Sol Branz-Victoria Travascio at 49erFX and the sixth of Facundo Oleza in Finnish. While the 2016 Rio champions, santiago langia Y Cecilia Carrarawho came as big favorites to repeat the title at Nacra 17, were seventh.
The good results of the juniors in various international competitions last year – such as Cardozo’s bronze at the Pan American Games in Cali – made it clear that there is a future in Argentine sailing. And the brilliant performance at the Odesur in Asunción, with some young sailors and others with more experience, confirmed that they are on the right track.
Taekwondo and two new medals
Argentine taekwonders have added two new bronze medals to the national harvest. Margherita Echeverria Y Ruben Guagliarello They climbed to the third step of the podium in the poomsae mixed pair competition, a discipline that made its debut in the Odesur program.
The Argentines shared that position with Dariana Softe and Leandro Rodríguez, from Colombia. While the gold went to the Peruvians Krishna Cortez López and Luis Enrique Sacha and the silver to the Brazilians Lina Leal Bacelar and Alex Silva.
Echeverría, 18, closed her first South American Games with two medals, as she had also won silver in the women’s individual event in the same discipline.
Secondly, Carla Godoy It was third in the category up to 57 kilos. The native of Florencio Varela, who usually competes in the 53 kilos (she is not in these Games), lost in the semifinals to Peruvian Camila Cecilia Cáceres González 2-0 and shared the bronze with Colombian Daniela Muñoz Díaz, who also fell in that case.
In fencing, the women’s sword team, consisting of Isabel Di Tella, Datev Nahapetyan, Melissa Englert Y Tamara Shwojnikgot a silver by falling 45 to 36 against Brazil in the final.
The men’s foil teamAugusto Servello, Dante Cerquetti, Nicola Marino Y santiago padlocks-, who beat Peru 45-28 in the semifinals, is also looking for gold against the Brazilians at the end of the day.
The women’s handball team he made his debut with a large 48-1 defeat against Bolivia and leads the only group of the tournament. He will play again this Friday against Paraguay.
The men’s beach soccer team He is waiting for what will happen at the end of that sport (the last date in which Uruguay-Venezuela and Paraguay-Peru will play) to know which place he will occupy on the podium. Silver is assured, with two points more than the Peruvian team, which could overtake it if they win.
While, The lioness they face Uruguay in their second submission to the competition. And national gymnasts appear in the all-round team event of the artistic gymnastics.
Argentina accumulates, for now, 12 gold, 23 silver and 31 bronze medals and go fifth in the medal table. They are ahead of Brazil (57-46-38), Colombia (33-39-40), Chile (15-8-24) and Venezuela (14-15-24).
Source: Clarin
