The gymnast Hillary Heron and a veteran pitcher baseball, Davis Romero, They will be standard bearers for Panama in Pan American Games Santiago 2023, as he announced Panama Olympic Committee (COP).
Heron at the recent world championship in Antwerp, Belgium He got a ticket to Paris in 2024.
The athlete showed her joy for placing on Olympic Games in Parisupon arrival last night at Panama comes from Belgium.
The gymnast said that she is very happy about the success achieved and now the Panamanian gymnastics team will focus on Brazil, As part of his preparations for Games in Santiago 2023.
The other bearer of the Panamanian flag is the left winger and former first league player, Coclesano Davis Romero.
Romero who arrived at the big tent with Toronto Blue Jays, He can do the job as a starter, but also as an assistant.
He will represent Panama 87 athletes who will compete in 19 sports in Santiago 2023. This is the largest number of sports in which we have competed in the history of the Games, including 17 individual and 2 team sports (baseball and basketball), as well as the largest historical number of Panamanian athletes in multi-sport history. the most important event on the continent since its first edition in Buenos Aires in 1951, as well as sports.
Santiago 2023 will be the Pan American Games with the most Olympic classifications in history, with 21 direct places and 12 by marks and order. It will have 39 sports, 57 modalities, 18 days of competition, 6916 registered athletes and 425 gold medals in competition.
Sports in which Panama will compete: baseball, boxing, gymnastics, aquatics, weightlifting, taekwondo, shooting sports, cycling, surfing, judo, basketball, fencing, equestrian sports, athletics, wrestling, bowling, triathlon, golf, karate and esports.
At the previous edition of the Games in Lima 2019, Panama won 4 bronze medals with athletes Alvis Almendra in Greco-Roman style wrestling up to 87 kg, Kristine Jiménez in judo in the category up to 52 kg, Héctor Censión in karate – cate and Miryam Roper in judo up to 57 kg.
Source: Panama America
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