Pan American Games: A Historic Brand for Argentina

The Pan American Games in Lima have been completed and the Argentinian delegation has achieved its best performance without taking into account the two competitions that took place in our country: Buenos Aires 1951 and Mar del Plata 1995.

In Buenos Aires, first edition of the Pan American Games, Argentina has 154 medals and in the city of Buenos Aires he has attained the maximum number of medals up to now 159. In Lima, the 101 They meant the third historic mark.

Meanwhile, the 32 golden in Peru they were only behind the 68 obtained in Buenos Aires and the 40 of Mar del Plata. As far as actions outside the country are concerned, the best thing so far has been recorded in Mexico City in 1955 with a total of 80 (27 gold, 33 silver and 20 bronze).

Argentina has added at least one medal in athletics, basketball, 3×3 basketball, handball, boxing, power boating, boat slalom, BMX cycling, freestyle skiing, mountain biking, track cycling, road cycling, horseback riding, fencing , water skiing, football, artistic gymnastics, hockey, karate, swimming, open water, skateboarding, basque ball, modern pentathlon, racquetball, rowing, rugby, softball, squash, surfing, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, sport shooting , archery, triathlon, sailing, beach volleyball and volleyball.

Sport as a whole has been one of the major drivers of historical performance. Hockey won in both branches and entered Tokyo in 2020, while men's football kept the title and women's football escaped penalties. men's volleyball won the gold medal and the Panthers the bronze medal, while the Gladiators earned their title and pbad for the Olympic Games and La Garra was a finalist; In basketball, men met the odds in being champions and in the Giants was the only place: paper with shirts and fifth place.

Many medals come from the water, this time being no exception to the rule and the swimming, with Delfina Pignatiello in mind, made a remarkable presentation. Julia Sebastián and Santiago Grbadi managed to score for Tokyo 2020. Argentina dominated the speed medalist with 7 out of 3 slalom boats. The open water has contributed to both money and surf and sailing has collected seven, leaving only Brazil.

Another sport that added success was the Basque ball, I did not go to Toronto. He promised joy and the national delegation did not disappoint: three gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals. Mexico, the only one to have exceeded Argentina on the medals table.

The sport shot also had very good Pan American Games and finished third in his medal table behind the United States and Cuba. The archery shot won a historic gold medal in the mixed track, fencing provided four medals and cycling allowed Argentina to get on the podium on the track, road, BMX, free BMX and mountain biking.

Tennis, Skeet, riding, pentathlon and sailing they also won places for the Tokyo Olympics; The racquetball girls left Lima with four medals and the softball, who was world champion, ratified it with outstanding performance.

Belén Cbadetta got the only record of athletics, while judo – without a podium – was one of the sports that, compared to Toronto (which had won four medals), had drastically reduced her performances.

When the activity was over Agustina Roth, BMX Freestyle, was responsible for giving the country the 100th medal This is how, for the third time in its history, the Argentine delegation reached the three personalities at the Pan American Games in Lima. And the yapa, in the same discipline, came from the hand of Jose Torres …

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# Lima2019EnTyCSports | LLEGà "THE MEDALLION 101! 🠥 The great routine of José Torres en #Cyclage #Freestyle who takes the money for #Argentina. ðŸ 'Great actor, José! 🠇 |🠇 · #VamosArgentina pic.twitter.com/kolebxxIXG

– TyC Sports (@TyCSports) August 11, 2019