Team Ecuador is seventh in the medal table, with 33 medals in total.
With three days to go before the end of the first edition of the Junior Pan American Games, Ecuador is the seventh country with the most gold medals so far in the tournament held in Cali and Valle del Cauca, in Colombia.
Only Brazil, Colombia, the United States, Mexico, Cuba and Argentina surpass what has been done so far by the Tricolor, which arrived on November 25 with a delegation of 168 young athletes to participate in 25 disciplines.
To the six gold medals are added the ten silver and the seventeen bronze that they have achieved in the seven days of competition, adding a total of 33 medals in a Pan American Games directed exclusively for those under 23 years of age for the first time in the history.
The medals were obtained in ten of the 28 disciplines that take place in the Games, 12 of which were obtained by male athletes and 19 female; the other two medals were earned in mixed sports.
Medal disciplines:
- Weightlifting: 5 medals: 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
- Athletics: 2 medals: 2 gold
- Judo: 2 medals: 1 gold, 1 silver
- Triathlon: 3 medals: 1 gold, 2 bronze
- Speed skating: 7 medals: 7 silver
- Swimming: 2 medals: 1 silver, 1 bronze
- Squash: 4 medals: 4 bronze
- Boxing: 3 medals: 3 bronze
- Taekwondo: 2 medals: 2 bronze
- Struggle: 1 medal: 1 bronze
- Remo: 1 medal: 1 bronze
- Artistic gymnastics: 1 medal: 1 bronze
Gold medals:
- Bryan Garboa was the first Ecuadorian athlete to win the first gold medal for Ecuador in the Junior Pan American Games, after beating the Mexican Juárez Silva in the judo discipline in the men’s 60 kg category.
- Ivan Escudero got the second medal in the weightlifting discipline. The Cuencano was crowned champion of the 81 kg division, after marking a total of 342 kg in weight, with 152 kg snatch and 190 kg clean and jerk.
- Triathlon team followed, with a gold in mixed relays. César Criollo, Gabriel Terán, Nancy Lojano and Paula Vega were in charge of finishing the timer in 1 hour, 23 minutes and 48 seconds, beating Mexico.
- Bella Paredes got another gold medal in weightlifting, but this time in the 87 kg division. The Ecuadorian lifted a total of 229 kg: 101 kg in snatch and 128 kg in clean and jerk.
- David hurtado he also added a gold medal for Ecuador by finishing first in the men’s 20,000 meter track. The champion crossed the finish line after 1 hour, 21 minutes, 55 seconds.
- The sprinter Anahi Suarez she was the last athlete to achieve a gold medal. The Ecuadorian ran the 100 meter dash in 11 seconds and 23 milliseconds.
Silver medals:
Seven of the ten silver medals were achieved in the speed skating discipline and these were his results in the different categories.
- María Arias got second place in 1,000 meters sprint female, reaching a time of 1 minute, 36 seconds and 193 milliseconds, very close to the 1 minute, 35 seconds and 949 milliseconds of the first place.
- Joel Gaucho – 10,000 meters of men’s elimination.
- Martina Pita – 10,000 meters of women’s elimination.
- María Arias got three gold medals at the Games: 200 meters of goal against female goal, 500 meters + distance and round the circuit.
- Juan Reinoso – return to the men’s circuit.
- Anicka Delgado managed to be on the podium in the women’s 50 meter freestyle in swimming, with 25 seconds and 74 milliseconds, close to the 25 seconds and 47 milliseconds that made the first place.
- Kelin Jiménez finished second in the women’s 76 kg weightlifting division. The Ecuadorian lifted a total of 218 kg: 95 kg snatch and 123 kg clean and jerk.
- Edith Ortiz could not defeat Dominican Ariela Sánchez in the 63 kg final in judo, for which she won the silver medal.
Bronze medal
- Erick Naranjo – Men’s 91 kg in boxing
- Janina Cuero – Women’s 75 kg in boxing
- Piero Prieto – men’s 69 kg in boxing
- César López – male jump in artistic gymnastics
- Jennifer Becerra – 59 kg Women’s Weightlifting
- Neiser Grefa – Men’s 96 kg Weightlifting
- Jeremy Peralta – greco men’s 60 kg wrestling
- Anicka Delgado – Women’s 100m Freestyle Swimming
- Domenique Murrieta, Helen González, Lulia Solano and Kerly Salazar – women’s wx4 rowing
- María Buenaño and María Falconí – women’s doubles squash
- David Costales and María Moya – mixed doubles squash
- María Buenaño, María Falconí and María Moya – women’s squash team
- María Moya – women’s singles squash
- Mell Mina – 57 kg-67kg femenina en taekwondo
- César Criollo – men’s individual triathlon
- Paula Vega – women’s individual triathlon
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