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The cucuteño was the key to the Colombian delegation to stay in the first place of this modality this Friday in the Central American Games and Barranquilla Caribbean 2018.
This sport gave Friday a huge joy in Jossimar Calvo. The Colombian gymnast has been key for the Colombian group to retain the gold medal in the Artistic Gymnastics Team of the Central America and Caribbean Games Barranquilla 2018. Calvo's performance has been essential for the group formed by Andrés Martínez, Carlos Calvo, Didier Lugo, Javier Sandoval and the cucuteño will be able to impose with a score of 2.49.400 on Cuba and Mexico, which will remain respectively the silver and the bronze.
The talent of the born in Cúcuta was fundamental for the country to be finished with the medal. His individual score was the highest of any competitor during the day that Friday held at the Puerta de Oro Events Center in Barranquilla. (Read here: Our athletes and their pride to represent Colombia abroad)
84,950 points accumulated that Jossimar contributed to his team, in a competition in which the points that each gymnast adds to the event. team and the top three scores are those who keep the medals.
The triumph came at a difficult time for Jossimar. On Friday, July 13, the athlete lost his mother Nohora Moreno who suffered an open heart surgery that he unfortunately could not overcome. So, the athlete minutes after the results were known, he remembered his mother. (Read also: Francisco Mosquera was left with a gold medal in the Central American Games)
"In each of the modalities in which I competed I still engaged him and what I did And the truth in paradise or wherever I am, thank you for having advised me to come here Today we give a triumph to Colombia and artistic gymnastics ", said the sportsman to the media after the triumph
" All will be well mom, God is with you, you are a strong woman and warrior I ask everyone to join me with a prayer for the health of my mother today that will be operated openly, blessings for everyone, "wrote Jossimar in his Instagram account, just before his mother entered the room. # 39; operation. (This may interest you: Jossimar Calvo and his teaching: the failure is p have an option)
This Friday, Calvo gave a new gold medal to the country, him and his mother.
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