The Argentinian Kai Ditsch gave today to Argentina the second medal gold in the Panamerican Games Santiago de Chile 2023by winning the wakeboard test in the men’s Water Skiing.
The Argentine, originally from the Buenos Aires city of Tigre, thus contributes the second gold medal for the country, after the one achieved yesterday by Eugenia de Armasalso in water skiing.
Kai Ditsch, born on March 20, 2000, won the gold medal with a mark of 88.33 points, and surpassed the Canadian Hunter Smith (silver), with 82.67, and the American Daniel Johnson (bronze) 78.33.
Previously, the Santa Fe Tobias Giorgis21 years old, won the silver medal in the men’s Overall final in water skiing after great performances in slalom, jumping and figures.
The Santa Fe native was only behind the Canadian Dorien Llewellyn, top 3 in the world; while Patricio Zohar from Buenos Aires finished fourth in the same event and was close to achieving a medal; while the podium was completed by Chilean Martín Alberto Labra, who won bronze.
“I was fighting the Canadian until the end, I’m happy about that. With the silver I’m very happy,” highlighted the man from Santa Fe, speaking to TyC Sports.
In this way, Giorgis achieved his second personal medal after the one obtained yesterday in the Jumping specialty, also in Water Skiing.
A day with more medals for Argentina
Daniel Villafane won the silver medal after having obtained 14,133 points in the Rings final in the Artistic gymnastics Masculine.
Villafañe took medal number 19 for the Argentine Delegation at the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile 2023.
The American, Donnell Whittenburg, took first place with a score of 14,200 and in third place was Félix Dolci with 13,800 points.
The Argentine, after winning gold at the South American Games in Asunción, is Pan American Runner-up.
Meanwhile, the Argentine female couple racquetball formed by Natalia Mendez and Maria Jose Vargasand then Vargas with Diego Garcia In the mixed doubles, they won two silver medals today.
In the women’s doubles final, Méndez and Vargas fell 11-2, 8-11, 14-12 and 11-6 against the Guatemalans Gabriela Martínez and María Rodríguez (Independent Athletes Team), and took second place.
The Argentines, both born in Bolivia and naturalized, had defeated the Mexicans Monserrat Mejía and Alexandra Herrera 3-2 in the semifinals.
In the mixed doubles final, Vargas and Diego García (another Bolivian-born representing Argentina) fell to the pair from the United States, Adam and Erika Manila, 3-0 (11-4, 11-4 and 11-6) and won the silver medal.
When the day was just beginning, the Argentine duos made up of Sonia Baluzzo and Evelyn Silvestroand Alejandro Colomino and Peter Dickson today they won medals bronze in rowing at the Pan American Games.
Sonia Baluzzo Chiaruzzo and Evelyn Maricel Silvestro got on the podium in the women’s lightweight short row double pair test, in which they made a time of 7:15.27, behind the Chileans Antonia Leonor Liewald Heise and Isidora Niemeyer Walbaum (gold ), and the Americans Mary Wilson and Elizabeth Martin (silver).
In the same men’s event, Dickson and Colomino completed the regatta in 6:27.26 and also achieved bronze. The Mexicans Miguel Ángel Carballo Nieto and Alexis Bladimir López García took the gold medal, while the Chileans César David Abaroa Pérez and Eber Sebastián Sanhueza Rojas took the silver.
Source: Ambito
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