Panama women with a magical year 2023

In 2023, women were the face of Panamanian sports and were consolidated as the letters of the country in the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

In that deck, gymnast Hillary Heron, 400 meter hurdler Gianna Woodruff and boxer Atheyna Bylon.

Heron, Remembered as the second competitor to complete the ‘Biles I’ movement at the World Championships, she is the face of the Panamanian gymnastics revolution. It was in a Belgian city Antwerp, and the final result practically sealed his visa for Paris 2024.

Heron had a dream in 2023. He won three medals in the JCentral American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador (silver for teams and bronze in the floor and around) and bronze in the floor in World Championship held in Cairo.

Before he won three medals in South American Gymnastics Championship, which took place in the Colombian city Cali last September. One of them won gold in the jumping event.

“We are growing, we are working and there are generations coming up that are showing very well,” he said, but not before insisting that more support was needed.

Gymnastics is not among the most popular sports in the country, as preferences are split between boxing, baseball and football.

She herself comes from a family connected to baseball, as she is the granddaughter of a former scout New York Yankees Karl Heron, the same one that led to Major leagues toHe who later established himself as the leader of the rescuers and entered the Hall of Famer, Mariano Rivera.

Athena Bylon, who combines boxing with his police profession, will compete for the third time at the Olympic Games after his experience in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2020.

“Every athlete’s dream is to reach some Olympic games, a sacrifice that all athletes make every day,” he pointed out.

Bylon she sealed her qualification after defeating Brazilian Viviane Dos Santos (5-0) unanimously in the semi-finals Pan American Games Santiago de Chile.

In these Bylon Pan American Games she could not add gold, she fell in the last match against the Canadian Tammara Thibeault.

A hurdler Gianna Woodruff Woodruff He must have worked hard to win gold in the 400m hurdles at the last Pan American Games.

Before, she experienced moments of tension, as she was disqualified for allegedly knocking down a fence improperly. The Olympic Committee of Panama appealed and his victory was upheld.

An athlete born in an American city Santa Monica and whose mother is Panamanian, became the first woman from this country to win the gold metal in history Pan American Games.

Those in Paris will be his second Olympic Games. In those of Tokyo 2020 finished in seventh place. In Paris, he wants more, much more.