The countdown begins. In the final face-offs before the
Pan American and Para-Pan American Games, several sports continue to finalize their qualifiers for this continental sporting and multi-disciplinary event.
In this context,
the team sports already know which countries will participate in
Lima 2019.
For baseball, Canada, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua became the last four teams to qualify in a tournament played in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The champions also include Argentinean Santiago Muñiz, gold medalist in the World Surfing Games 2018; the two-time winner of the golden medal at the
ISA World Surfing Games, Puerto Rican Tia Blanco; four-time SUP Racing gold medalist Candice Appleby; and the winner, twice in a row, of the gold medal in SUP Surfing, Brazilian Luiz Diniz.
With them, a total of 88 surfers will take part in the competition that will play out along the legendary beach of Punta Rocas, the setting for the World Championship in 1965, where Peruvian Felipe Pomar secured his place as champion.
The athletes qualified for the Pan American Games by passing through a process defined by ISA and the Pan American Surfing Association (PASA), which included a combination of competitions such the Pan American held last year, the tour of the Association of Paddlesurf Professionals and the competitions of the ALAS Tour.
The Pan American men's soccer competition, which will take place in the
remodeled San Marcos Stadium, is also quickly approaching. Ecuador, champion of the South American Sub 20 of Chile, as well as Argentina and Uruguay, second and third, have all qualified.
Maria Fernanda Reyes, Tamil Martino, Vania Torres, Itzel Delgado and Giannisa Vecco are Peruvian competitors in surfing.
Argentina, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Peru have also qualified for baseball.
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Published: 3/25/2019