By: Luis Imana
After 15 long days of tough competition, the South American Games Asuncion 2022 ended yesterday, the Peruvian delegation added a large number of medals in different disciplines.
The representatives of our country completed their participation in the South American competition with a total of 74 medals: 19 gold, 18 silver and 37 bronze. The final gold medal was won by the volleyball team, who defeated a similar team from Argentina 3-2 in the final.
The Red-Whites got off to a tricky start after losing the first set 22-25, but were able to level the score after a 25-21 win in the second set.
Although the Gaucho team won the third set 17-25, the Peruvians kept it all on the court and secured the victories by winning the fourth and fifth sets 25-19 and 15-11.
Aixa Gabriela Vigil Quispe, Julca Rock’s Diana Aurora, Esmeralda Sanchez Macedo, Karla Beatriz Ortiz Oyola, Maria Jose Rojas Ecker, Maria Paula Rodriguez Huarachy and Maricarmen Nicole Guerrero Balarezo were key figures to climb to the top of the podium.
The Peruvian volleyball team is the champion of the 2022 South American Games. Photo: Ovation
The others Gold medal for Peru were competed in mixed skeet with shotgun (Nicolás Pacheco and Daniella Borda), mixed 10m air pistol (Marko Carrillo and Annia Becerra), men’s skeet (Nicolás Pacheco), women’s skeet (Daniella Borda) and im Won 10m Air Pistol (Annia Becerra). ), Long Jump (Jose Luis Mandros), Men’s Individual Bowling (Kenny Kishimoto), Judo -90 kg (Yuta Galarreta), Judo -73 kg (Alonso Wong), Men’s Olympic Pit (Asier Cilloniz), IQFOIL 95- Women’s sailing (Maria Bethlehem Milz), sunfish sailing (Jean Paul de Trazegnies), boat sailing an ILCA 7 crew (Stefano Peschiera), taekwondo in mixed pairs in poomsae mode (Luis Sacha and Krishna Cortez), single poomsae -Taekwondo (Hugo Del Castillo) karate modality kumite -61 kg (Alexandra Grande), fencing (Mary Louise Doig) and skateboarding (David Tuesta).
Did you know…
classified. Five Peruvian athletes have received the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games passport at the South American Games.
Final. The closing ceremony of the South American Games took place at the Paraguayan Olympic Committee in Luque.