Panamanian weightlifters without competing in international tournaments

They are stagnant, that’s how weightlifters are, for about a year, they couldn’t compete at the international level because of some economic reports among Panama Weightlifting Federation and Pandeportes, they do not match.

In the administration of Eduardo CerdaFinancial support is given to the Panama Weightlifting Federation, but the financial reports are not added up, so at the time Hector Brands and now Denis Arce They could not cooperate with the sport of weightlifting.

There were six commercial applications, one was resolved immediately, so there are five left and that’s the documentation, the paperwork that was kept by the head of the weight competition, the president admitted Panama Weightlifting Federation, Henry Phillips.

He skills manager dThe federation resigned more than a year ago, so the athletes did not compete in international competitions for about a year.

So far, three economic reports have been resolved, three are in the works that have yet to be resolved, he explained. Phillipswho added that the person responsible for keeping these economic report papers was the federation’s competition manager and he was not.

Phillips also did not elaborate on the mismatched financial amounts, saying they were not large numbers.

This stagnated the athletes who could not compete in various international events such as Central American and Caribbean Weightlifting in the Dominican Republic, Pan American Weightlifting in Argentinaand, all qualifications for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games in Chile.

Panamanian weightlifters could not travel to competitions in youth categories such as U-17 World Cup in Albania and U-2 Pan American0 what was done in the past days in Colombia.

“They blocked me at Pandeportes until these (economic) reports are resolved”he replied Phillips, to a question about the absence of Panamanians at international events and added “thank God that is being resolved”.

The Panamanian leader in weightlifting pointed out that for Games of Central America and the Caribbeane that will take place in El Salvador between June 23 and July 8, will have Panamanian weightlifters and that it was done through Pan American Weightlifting and the Panama Olympic Committee (COP), in other words, they entered through a wildcard

in games Savior will have a national team of six Panamanian athletes, namely: Jorge Medina 81 kg, Ronier Martínez (67 kg), Juan Martínez (61 kg), Mariadni Batista (87 kg), Ángel Agrazal (96 kg) and Beatriz Oduber (55 kg) and the coach will be Arnulfo Castillo Alderete from Colón.