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– 3 gold medals in a row lead Mónica Puig to Central America and the Caribbean. The Puerto Rican, Olympic champion at Rio 2016, won the gold medal at Mayagüez 2010 – where she also won the bronze medal – in Veracruz in 2014 and today in Barranquilla in 2018.
– 25 years old she was carrying Colombia without winning the cycling event in Central America and the Caribbean. Something accomplished by the Barranquillero Nelson Soto in Cali with a time of 3 hours, 36 minutes and 57 seconds.
– 8 gold medals to the Mexican Juan Barrios and is the first athlete to reach it in regional contests to conquer this Sunday the 10,000 meters. Since the games of 2002 has realized gold metals, in addition, in the tests of 1,500 and 5,000 meters.
– 56 years passed for Colombia to win gold in the discus throw of Central America and the Caribbean when won in 1962 with Dagoberto González. The spell was broken by Mauricio Ortega, with 66.30 meters, early in athletics.
– 42 total gold medals have won Colombia in athletics in the history of these regional jousts, 23 men have reached and 19 women
– 72 years have passed for Colombian baseball to return to the podium in Central America and the Caribbean. On this occasion, in Barranquilla in 1946, the ninth host was champion. This Sunday, the bronze was beaten by a 3-1 defeat against Cuba and must play tied to try to qualify for the Panamerican Games in Lima in 2019.
– 3 gold won Puerto Rico in baseball for 80 years years in Panama 1938. They dressed in gold in Caracas 1959, San Salvador 2002 and Barranquilla 2018.
– 4.7 million pesos is the price of the medal for Colombians who win gold in these contests, those who conquer the silver medal will receive 2.3 million and those who will reach the bronze 1.5 million.
EFE / OS
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