In addition to these figures, the delegation has its ranks Glenda Morejón and David Hurtado, in the 20-kilometer march; and the sprinter Anahí Suárez.
The president of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE), Jorge Delgado Panchana, assured that the greatest expectations will focus on wrestling and swimming to win medals at the first Junior Cali Valle Pan American Games, which will be held in Colombia from November 25.
“In youth, not everything is written or predicted, but the highest expectations for medals will be in wrestling and swimming, but we expect a good performance from our debutants in Games of this magnitude”, Delgado Panchana told Efe.
Among the athletes recognized by the manager who has the best chances to win medals, there are Anicka Delgado and David Farinango, in swimming, and Lucía Yépez, in wrestling.
Delgado debuted, at the age of 19, at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 and Farinango, 21 years old, reached fifteenth place in those same jousts.
For its part, the Tiger Yépez, as the fighter is known, she ranked eighth in her category in Tokyo and was recently the World Champion in Belgrade, Serbia.
“Actually, there are three or four references, the rest are all new athletes who are going to have their first experience in the Pan American Games, in which Mexico, the United States, Canada will enter and usually the youth do not compete with that, but there are expectations “, he claimed.
In addition to the figures mentioned by Delgado Panchana, Glenda Morejón and David Hurtado will come out with experiences of the Olympic Games, in the 20-kilometer march; and Anahí Suárez, who debuted in Tokyo 2020 with the female post team.
Only in that discipline, Ecuador brings 32 athletes to Colombia. Suárez will hit the slopes as a bronze medalist at the Youth Olympic Games held in Buenos Aires in 2018.
The 20-year-old sprinter is in the top 5 of the continental ladder and she is the South American U23 champion in the 100 and 200 meters.
Morejón becomes one of the most experienced of the team, as he won his first title at the 2017 World Cup in Nairobi and then reached the silver medal at the 2018 World Team Walking Championships in Tiacang, China.
The 21-year-old marcher set the world record in 2019 in her debut in the 20 kilometers at the XXXIII edition of the Catones Grand Prix in La Coruña, Spain, with a time of 1:25:29.
However, he did not do well in the last Olympic Games, in which he recognized that the nerves of the debut took their toll.
The Ecuadorians yearn for their athletes to have a great debut as Morejón, the first Olympic medalist Jefferson Pérez or Delgado Panchana himself, who debuted at the age of 18 at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
The country’s hope of medals is also encouraged by the great performance of the soccer team, which with young people between 19 and 23 years old are just four points, of the 12 that remain in dispute, to access the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
Ecuador will participate in the Junior Pan American Games with 168 athletes in 25 sports, 86 men and 82 women. (D)
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