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The stadium Rafael Cotes wanted to fall. The audience was delighted by Caterine Ibargüen's six jumps in the long jump. When the official announcer finished the competition in the Central America and Caribbean Games and with a loud voice sang the gold of the Colombian athlete with a mark of 6, 83 meters people have gone crazy.
Once the music of Joe Arroyo. She raised her arms and offered the medals to those who had supported her since her arrival in Barranquilla, and the public began to sing her name. Caterine's long hair stirred, the breeze was strong, as strong as her steps towards the dashboard, in which she missed only one position, in the fifth jump, which was zero. Rest, almost everything perfect, as always. Ibargüen took the microphone and addressed people who, regardless of the 35 degrees of temperature and high humidity, did not move from the scene until the star spoke.
"Thank you, Barranquilla! This medal is for you, for my country. I am waiting for you Wednesday, to join me in the triple jump," said a happy Ibargüen, who adjusted his first medal of gold in the long jump and the second in the history of the Games, after the title of four years ago in triple jump.
He went to the locker room, he escaped. Ibargüen did not see the stadium again, but people kept shouting his name. They did not care but she, the second place of Cantel Malone (Virgin Islands) pbaded in the background and not even the bronze of Felix Boyer (Puerto Rico), which with respectively 6,52 m and 6, 45 m With the Colombian gold, the national delegation reached 54, but Cuba was on his heels because his athletes bounced back and reached 53 gold medals. Mexico continued to be unstoppable, broke the 100 gold mark and finished the day with 103.
In the first sport, Daniel Pineda, Daniel Betancur and Andrés Pila won the men's recurve bow competition shooting in the bow. In an exciting confrontation, the Colombians won 5-3 after playing four periods, where the first initiative was the visitors. This is a medal that makes you dream, because recently in Cochabamba, the team has also hung the gold of the South American Games and is on track in the Olympic cycle.
Carolina Castillo became the first national athlete fight to give the national delegation a gold medal in this edition of the game . He did it in the 50-kilo clbad, after defeating Mexico's Mariana Diaz in the final. Castillo was bronze medalist at the Bolivarian Games and at the Games of South America he achieved the title.
"I came to this, to win.I am glad to know that in Central America, I was able to hold the gold that I reached in the country of South America, "said Castillo.
Nicolás Mejía and Eduardo Struvay earned the title in the men's doubles tennis competition. Later, Struvay, along with María Pérez, won the mixed doubles "white sport" tournament.
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