Costa Rica wants a podium at Centrocaribes Barranquilla-2018

A press release, published on the website of the National Olympic Committee of Costa Rica (concrete), states that athletes will seek to reach the podium in the sports event in force in Mexico, in 1926 , and in which Cuba has been the historical ruler.

Remember that this small Central American nation has a record in this type of competition of 163 medals, including 37 gold, 41 silver. and 85 bronze, to occupy the 12th place among the 32 countries that attended one of its 22 editions.

This medallion, refers to, is led by Cuba, with 3,2020 medals (1552 gold, 889 silver and 679 bronze), followed by Mexico with 235 gold medals, Venezuela (564), Colombia (451) and Puerto Rico (323).

For Central America, the best place is Panama, in eighth place with 86 gold medals; Guatemala ninth (84), El Salvador tenth (49), Costa Rica twelfth (37), Nicaragua twenty-first (three) and Honduras twenty-second (three).

The concrete indicates that the country's last golds in the sporting event The oldest regions of the planet were the members of the Karate Karate team Juan Achío, Roy Lee Gatjens and Fabricio Román, in Veracruz -2014.

Costa Rica's best performance took place in Santiago de los Caballeros-1986, Dominican Republic, with 11 gold medals, including 10 won by swimmer star Sylvia Poll, who two years later would win. the first medal at the Olympic Games, money in Seoul-1988.

At the gold harvest of this country in the centrocaribes also contributed the swimmer María del Milagro París, with eight gold medals between the games Santo Domingo-1974, Medellín-1978 and Havana- 1982.

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