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Cycling and weight gave the first medals to the national delegation in the races that take place in Barranquilla, Cali and Bogotá
Wálter Vargas, Rodrigo Contreras and Pedro Portuondo, the best in the time trial. / EFE
Making the house respected is the slogan of the 597 Colombian athletes participating in the 23rd Central America and Caribbean Games of Barranquilla 2018, whose sub-offices are Cali and Bogotá.
That's why this Friday, the first The day the medals were given, tried to get off to a good start and get on the podium so many times.
In the women's time trial, played in the capital of Valle del Cauca, the Cuban Sierra of Arlenis was the best Colombian Ana Cristina Sanabria and Sérika Gulumá respectively in second and third place.
But the revenge for the national team came a few minutes later, in the men's branch, in which the Cundinamarca Rodrigo Contreras demonstrated his experience as a national, South American and Panamerican champion, to record the best mark, followed by the antioquien Wálter Vargas and the Cuban Pedro Portuondo.
Something similar happened at the Coliseum of the Atlantic University, where bodybuilding competitions are held. The Antioquia Carlos Berna was second at the start of the 56-kilo category, but had his revenge for keeping the gold clean, with a record of Central America and the Caribbean included.
The third gold of the tricolor team got the weightlifter vallecaucana Ana Iris Segura, who got the first place, with a mark of 81 kilograms lifted, at the beginning of the category of 48 kilos.
The Colombian, also Pan American Champion, won in a final fight against Dominicans Georgina Silvestre and Santa Dolorita Cotes
This Friday started activity in 19 of the 36 sports jousting, including several in the group such as women's basketball, baseball, hockey, handball and softball.
will deliver 3,220 medals
In the XXIII edition of the Games, 5,339 athletes from 37 countries will fight to hang one of the 3,220 medals in dispute.
The medals were developed by a company that has been doing this work for the Colombian Olympic Committee for four decades. They bear the logo of the Games on one side and on the other images of Barranquilla
They were made in imported zamak, an environmentally friendly material. They are 80 millimeters in diameter across seven wide and each weigh 200 grams.
The ribbon that accompanies them and rests on the neck of the victors is blue, double-baded, and two-and-a-half centimeters wide.
These medals lack a bath of gold, silver and bronze, although this is their name. However, the tone or color of these metals is due to electrolytic baths.
A total of 3,520 medals were produced, but 3,220: 1,010 gold, 1,010 silver and 1,200 bronze medals will be delivered. In reserve will be 300, to save any eventuality.
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