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At the XXIII Games of Central America and the Caribbean, Antonio Diaz won his league title for the sixth time
PRESS COV | BARRANQUILLA.- Venezuelan karate player Antonio Díaz clinches his sixth gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games. In Maracaibo 1998 Díaz started what would be an undefeated career in the modality of kata, four years ago he graduated in Veracruz 2014 and today from Barranquilla 2018 he once again wrote his name in the book of exploits of the sporting history of Venezuela and the region.
Díaz won the final against Mexico's Waldo Ponce with a 5-0 result obtained using the Suparimpei kata. In the first match Antonio Paulino of Puerto Rico was measured. Then with the Dominican Nykolai Arango. Díaz closed the first round hen against Panamanian Hector Cencion, who he beat with the Nipaipo kata.
In the semifinals, he faced Roy Gatjen of Costa Rica, who won with the kata Anan Dai, one of the lesser-known figures of the kata, but which the Creole has polished since more than a year.
This medal represents three gold medals in the Olympic cycle towards Tokyo 2020, as Diaz climbed on the highest step of the podium at the Games. Bolivarianos de Santa Marta (2017) and South American Games of Cochabamba this year
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