The first edition of this sporting event will be held between November 24 and December 5. Tricolores will perform in 25 sports disciplines.
Lucia Yepez, current U-23 world wrestling champion, and David Farinango, Olympic athletes at Tokyo 2020, were designated by the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE) as flag bearers tricolor for the first edition of the Junior Pan American Games to be held in Colombia.
Cali will be the main headquarters of this sporting event that will be held between on November 24 and December 5.
Ecuador attends with a delegation of 168 athletes to fight for the medals in 25 disciplines.
With 31 athletes, athletics is the largest delegation, in which the marchista stands out Glenda Morejon, in addition to David hurtado and the sprinter Anahi Suarez, who were part of the historic tricolor participation in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Cycling (17 athletes), swimming (13), judo (11), basketball and karate (8), boxing, gymnastics, wrestling, weights, skating, squash (6), rowing and archery (5), badminton, boating , fencing, taekwondo, triathlon, table tennis (4), field tennis (3), bowling, modern pentathlon, volleyball (2) and sailing (1) complete the national team.
In addition to Cali, Yumbo, Buga, Jamundí, Calima El Darien, Palmira and Barranquilla are the cities that will host the 3,500 athletes from 41 delegations, who will live the sports festival for twelve days.
The flag ceremony It was held this Wednesday at the COE headquarters in Guayaquil. Due to training sessions carried out outside the country, Yépez and Farinango were not in the act. The skater Maria Loreto Arias and the athlete Justin Herrera received the national pavilion on request.
“Today the dream of a whole country begins. Represent Ecuador in the best way, you represent the present and the future of Ecuadorian sport. This is where our future world champions and Olympic medalists will be born ”, he said. Sebastián Palacios, Minister of Sports, during the ceremony of delivery of the national standard.
As detailed by Palacios, this State portfolio invested $ 241,106, “Money given to the COE to carry out items of logistics, mobilization, lodging, sports equipment, sports vouchers, among others.”
The national delegation for the games consists of 246 members, with 168 athletes and 78 people from the technical team; in addition to two technical-methodological directors from the ministry.
The latter will aim to initiate “the classification of our athletes for the new reserve category of the High Performance Plan”, The ministry detailed in a statement. (D)
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