Weightlifting, archery and Panamanian baseball, ready for the Pan American Games

Panamanian delegations continue their journey towards Chilee, to participate in Pan American Games 2023 that will be held in the city Santiago

This Monday they started their “journey” to Pan American Gameswith athletes, weightlifters, tsports iro and baseball team.

These Panamanian representative offices will join those installed such as boxing and gymnastics, who are already in Santiago, Chile.

Panama has in gymnastics Hillary Heron and veteran former major league pitcher Davis Romero their flag bearers at the Pan American Games.

The Panamanian baseball team is the first to play in the highest regional tournament, against which they will make their debut Dominican Republicuntil October 19.

Panama will represent 87 athletes who will compete in 19 sports in Santiago 2023, which 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), and as the largest historical number of Panamanian athletes in the history of the most important multi-sport event on the continent since its first edition in Buenos Aires in 1951, as well as sports.

Santiago 2023 will be Pan American Games with the most Olympic classifications in history, with 21 direct places and 12 by marks and ranking. 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, Archery, Cycling, Surfing, Judo, Basketball, Fencing, Equestrian, Athletics, Wrestling, Bowling, Triathlon, Golf, Karate and Esports .

In the previous edition of the Lima 2019 Games. Panama He won 4 bronze medals with athletes Alvis Almendra in Greco-Roman style wrestling up to 87 kg, Kristine Jiménez in judo up to 52 kg, Héctor Censión in karate – kata and Miryam Roper in judo up to 57 kg.