Aaron Johnson clinches wrestling bronze, increasing Jamaica’s tally at Pan American Video games

Jamaica’s athlete Aaron Johnson contributed to the nation’s medal depend on the ongoing 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, Chile, by profitable a bronze medal within the males’s freestyle 126kg wrestling division.

Johnson secured his bronze by defeating Elison Adames of the Dominican Republic with a rating of 5-1.

Earlier within the competitors, Johnson had a quarter-final match that resulted in a 0-0 outcome towards Diego Almendras, adopted by a semi-final loss to American wrestler Mason Parris with a rating of 0-10. Mason Parris finally claimed the gold medal within the occasion.

Johnson’s bronze medal provides to Jamaica’s rising medal tally on the Pan American Video games. Bike owner Dahlia Palmer had beforehand gained a bronze medal within the keirin competitors. Samantha Corridor and Fedrick Dacres additionally secured bronze medals of their respective discus competitions. Jamaica’s present complete of 4 medals is a commendable achievement, though it falls in need of the report 19 medals gained on the final version of the Pan American Video games.

In different occasions on the Pan Am Video games, Jamaican athlete Jaheel Hyde gained warmth one of many males’s 400m hurdles semi-finals with the quickest time, advancing to the ultimate. The ladies’s 400m hurdles semi-finals featured opponents from varied nations who additionally progressed to the ultimate. Moreover, athletes from the Caribbean excelled within the ladies’s 200m semi-finals, securing locations within the last.

Whereas Jamaica made progress in a number of occasions, the ladies’s soccer staff confronted one other loss within the 7-8 classification, succumbing to a 1-2 defeat towards Bolivia.