Camila Suárez was the figure of Argentina’s victory and the scorer with 27 points, seconded by Candela Gentinetta, with 19 points.
From the start, Argentina showed a different game from the premiere and the previous confrontation with the Cubans: with superiority they quickly went 9-0 and with three minutes left to play, they stretched the difference on the scoreboard to 19-8.
Cuba scored (24-25) opening the second quarter, but the national team responded with an 8-0 to escape again 33-
24, and then, when the team recovered its game led by Mauricio Santangelo They went into halftime winning 39-30.
Argentina He took care of the advantage and stretched it to 11: 45-44 in just over five minutes of the third segment. The Cubans narrowed it 46-51 but the national team closed it out well and took the difference 58-46.
With their weapons, in defense and attack, the Argentine team stretched the lead to 15: 65-50 in four minutes of the fourth quarter. In the end he suffered, but he celebrated big.
Gold in men’s tennis
The Argentine tennis player Facundo Díaz Acosta was proclaimed Pan American champion on Sunday by beating the local Tomás Barrios in the final of Santiago-2023 who, although encouraged by his audience, had to settle for a second consecutive silver medal.
Argentina was close to achieving a double of golds in the individual tournament but Lourdes Carlé fell in the women’s final against the Brazilian Laura Pigossi, Olympic doubles medalist in Tokyo 2020.
In the most anticipated duel by Chilean fans, Barrios, number 105 in the ATP, was again on the verge of gold when he fell to Díaz Acosta (109th) 6-3 and 7-6 (7/5) .
The player from Chillán, the third best-positioned Chilean in the ATP ranking, also won silver in doubles partnering with Alejandro Tabilo in this tournament played on a clay surface.
Díaz Acosta, 22, exploited the local tennis player’s nervous start to the match, who wasted his five break points in the first set.
The Argentine left-hander, on the other hand, took advantage of his only break opportunity to bag the first set.
With 3-4 down in the second, Barrios reacted with his only break of serve and forced the tiebreak to the joy of the 3,300 fans who cheered him on strongly on the cold Santiago night.
The Chilean went ahead 1-3 but, after a double fault much protested by the stands, he saw Díaz Acosta take the lead with three points in a row and then maintain his advantage until claiming victory after two hours and 11 minutes of play.
The bronze medal went to Thiago Monteiro after a tough duel between Brazilians against Gustavo Heide 1-6, 6-3 and 7-6 (7/5).
With their presence in Sunday’s final, Barrios and Díaz Acosta earned a place for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as did Argentina’s Carlé and Brazil’s Pigossi on the women’s side.
Pigossi, number 275 in the WTA, also took the gold by beating Carlé (436) 6-2 and 6-3 in one hour and 41 minutes of play.
The 23-year-old Argentine was unable to succeed her compatriot Nadia Podoroska, champion in Lima-2019, in the Pan American honors list.
Dominant with his serve (80% effectiveness on the first serve), Pigossi did not concede a single break opportunity to Carlé, who only had a hint of a reaction in the second set.
The player from Buenos Aires saved three match points to get closer to 5-3 but Pigossi certified the victory with her serve and claimed her second Argentine victim of the weekend after beating Julia Riera in the semifinals.
On Sunday, Riera won the bronze medal by defeating Canadian Rebecca Marino 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
The 29-year-old champion Pigossi thus added the Pan American gold to the Olympic bronze she achieved in the doubles in Tokyo partnering with fellow Brazilian Luisa Stefani.
This same duo won gold in the women’s doubles in Santiago on Saturday.
“I am happy with the mission accomplished. I came to give the gold medal to Brazil. It has been a very special week”Pigossi congratulated himself. “After the doubles, today it was difficult for me to walk. When you have a mission everything is behind you but I will need a few days to repair the damage.”
Results of Sunday’s tennis finals
Women’s singles
1. Laura Pigossi (BRA)- gold
2. Lourdes Carlé (ARG) – silver
3. Julia Riera (ARG) – bronze
Men’s singles
1. Facundo Díaz Acosta (ARG) – gold
2. Tomás Barrios (CHI) – silver
3. Thiago Monteiro (BRA) – bronze
Silver in Open Water
The Argentine swimmer Franco Ivo Cassini today added a new silver medal for the national delegation by obtaining second place in the 10-kilometer open water event at the Santiago de Chile 2023 Pan American Games.
Cassini, 29, clocked a time of 1:50:23.6, two seconds behind American Brennan Gravley, while Mexican Paulo Delgado completed the podium with 1:50:23.8.
The man from Mar del Plata took revenge for the sixth place obtained in Lima 2019, after recovering from a kidney operation just two months before starting the competition in the Chilean capital.
Furthermore, in the same competition, held in Los Morros lagoon, the Argentine Joaquín Moreno Muñoz finished in fifth place (1:50:34.4).
For her part, the swimmer from Córdoba Cecilia Biagioli took fourth place in the women’s 10 kilometer open water event, with a time of (1:58:09.7), while Candela Giordanino from Santa Fe finished seventh (2:01:43.3) .
In this race, American Ashley Grace Twichell won the gold medal (1:57:16.4), while Brazilians Ana Marcela Cunha (1:57:29.4) and Viviane Jungblut (1:57:51.1) completed the podium.
Silver in cycling
The Argentine cyclist Eduardo Sepúlveda won the silver medal at the Santiago de Chile 2023 Pan American Games after finishing as escort in the road cycling final with a time of 3:37:57one second behind the Ecuadorian Jhonatan Manuel Narváez Prado.
In this way, the 32-year-old from Chubut obtained his first medal in this continental competition, after an extensive career in which he accumulated two golds in the Pan American Individual Pursuit and Team Pursuit Championships, in addition to a silver in the Time Trial Championship.
The member of the Belgian cycling team Lotto Dstny competed in the Tour de France, in the Vuelta a España and won the last qualifying stage in the Vuelta a Castilla y León.
The Uruguayan Antonio Eric Fagundez Lima completed the podium of the competition (3:37:57), while the Argentine Laureano Rosas took tenth place (3:43:35), while his compatriots Tomás Contte and Rubén Ramos finished in 15th (3:46:17) and 20th (3:47:08), respectively.
In the women’s turn, Maribel Roxana Aguirre finished in 24th place (3:00:24), while Irma Cristina Greve did not finish the race where the American Lauren Stephens took gold (2:51:05), followed in the podium was won by the Ecuadorian Myriam Núñez Padilla and the Paraguayan Agua Marina Espínola Salinas, both with times of 2:52:29.
Source: Ambito
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