Gold medals for Guatemala on days 9 and 10 of the JCA: Equestrian, jumping, individual - Eduardo Castillo/Waltaire Palo Blanco Athletics, men's 10000m - Víctor González (his 3rd gold) Athletics, men's javelin - Luis Taracena Equestrian, jumping, team Swimming, women's 50m backs - Gisela Morales Swimming, women's 50m butterfly - Gisela Morales Athletics, women's triple jump - Ana Lucía Camargo Athletics, 3000m steeplechase - Miguel Chan Gold medal race: GUA 65, CRC 58
Gold medals won by Guate on day 11 of the JCA: Cycling, men's time trial - Manuel Rodas Swimming, men's 100m butterfly - Luis Martínez Swimming, men's 200m backs - Daniel Santis Karate, women's individual kata - Nathalie Barrera Karate, men's individual kata - Guido Abdalla Karate, kumite - María Castellanos Bowling, mixed doubles - Armando Batres / Sofía Granda
Guatemalan gold medals won in the past two days, with one day to go at the JCA, include: Cycling, men's road race - Julio Padilla (GUA won all 3 medals) Swimming, women's 100m backs - Gisela Morales Wrestling, men's -55kg - Abner Elel Wrestling, women's -48kg - Jennifer González Wrestling, women's -55kg - Mishel Asencio Equestrian, individual jumping - Ivonne Balz/Ayton Tennis, women's doubles - Camila Ramazzini & Andrea Weedon Tennis, mixed doubles - Christopher Díaz & Daniela Schippers Taekwondo, men's -63kg - Andrés Zelaya Taekwondo, women's -49kg - Elizabeth Zamora Karate, men's -67kg - Carlos Alemán Karate, women's -55kg - Cheili González Boxing, women's -60kg - Karen Pérez Bowling, women's threes Gold medal totals: GUA 88, CRC 79, ESA 58
Eddie Valenzuela (-52kg) and Juan Reyes (-56kg) win gold medals in boxing, bringing the count up to 90 for Guatemala.
José Amado García wins the marathon, with a new C.A. record of 2:26:24, and Guatemala wins the JCA in its return after being absent in 2010. This was special because the games were celebrated in Costa Rica and the hosts did everything they could to finish ahead of Guatemala -- many of the disciplines where chapines dominate (sailing, rowing, shooting, some swimming events, etc.) were not celebrated in this games. In addition, Erick Barrondo and co. did not participate as they are preparing for the upcoming World Championships. Here is a very nice read about 20 of the most outstanding Guatemalan sportspeople of present times: http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/TRIUNFADORES_0_884311584.html
Erick Barrondo The Great won the European Cup of Racewalking 50km event today in Dudince, Slovakia, breaking an Americas' 35-yr old record with a time of 3:41:09.
Mirna Ortiz placed 2nd in Portugal, only behind Olympic champion Lashmanova. Another great performance for her. Erick Barrondo disqualified after 14km.
Racewalking team to compete at the World Championships (20km): Men's (Sunday, Aug. 11, 09:00 EDT) Érick Barrondo Daniel Quiyuch Aníbal Paau Women's (Tuesday, Aug. 13, 01:35 EDT) Mirna Ortiz Mayra Herrera
All Guate is going to be following Barrondo make history again, hope he does good. Gracias Cha for keepin us uptodate on other sports, sometimes we forget that we have other sports than football that we're good at.
Barrondo disqualified after 17km when he was fighting for the Gold Medal vs. Russian competitor Alexander Ivanov. Too bad, it looked like he was going to win. Ivanov won the event and $60k in home soil, 3 1/2 minutes above WR. Daniel Quiyuch finished in the top 30, 3 minutes behind the winner.
The Baltimore Orioles sign Juan Montes to a minor league deal as a catcher/outfielder where they will attempt to make him a fulltime outfielder. I have my Guate flag ready for whenever him or Andres Aguilar make their major league debut at Camden Yards! http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/...-to-minorleague-deal-20131112,0,6929658.story http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/ne...md=20131112&content_id=63874384&vkey=news_bal
And yet another Guatemalteco will sign with the best team in baseball Fabián Vizcaíno will sign a 7 year contract this Friday with the Baltimore Orioles! http://www.guatefutbol.com/index.php/noticias/otros-deportes/item/10648-a-las-grandes-ligas
Didnt want to start a whole new thread. So whats the word on the this tourney that just happened in Guate? You think any of our players may get picked up by some other teams?
Guate just got a gold medal in Panamerican games jorge vega.....sorry the link is in portuguese......and kevin cordon is in the final so at the very least that's a silver medal guaranteed
Hebert Brol won the double trap in shooting, Kevin Cordón won the badminton singles title , and Juan Maegli came out on top on the laser, so the gold medal count for Guatemala is now at 4. 0 silver, 2 bronze. Cordón and Maegli became the 2nd and 3rd athletes to win multiple gold medals for Guatemala in Pan American Games (Attila Solti was the first). Maegli is the most successful Guatemalan athlete in the history of the games, with 2 gold and 2 bronce medals.