Jamaican athletes face sluggish begin at 2023 Pan American Video games in Chile
Jamaican athletes collaborating within the 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, Chile, have encountered a sluggish begin to their marketing campaign. The Jamaican delegation, consisting of 90 athletes competing in 16 sporting disciplines, has but to make a major impression.
These clad within the black, inexperienced, and gold will contest basketball, rugby, soccer, biking, gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, taekwondo, weightlifting, canoeing, diving, swimming, e-sports, tennis, badminton, and monitor and discipline athletics.
Nicole Grant serves because the chef de mission, with Novelette Harris, Mark Broomfield, and Gregory Moore as group managers, and Leroy Harrison because the group physician. The highest three athletes in 13 sporting disciplines will safe {qualifications} for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. Nevertheless, if these ending within the prime three have already got Olympic spots, the qualification will likely be handed on to the subsequent best-placed athlete.
In girls’s soccer, the Jamaican group suffered a difficult begin with a 7-0 defeat to the Mexican girls’s soccer squad, who demonstrated their dominance on the pitch on the Elias Figueroa Stadium in Valparaíso, situated 120 kilometers west of Santiago.
The match’s early moments noticed María Sánchez show her ability and precision, discovering the again of the Jamaican web within the twelfth minute, granting Mexico an early benefit. The Aztecs continued to say their dominance, amassing a 3-0 lead earlier than the shut of the primary half. Targets from Karla Nieto (thirty fifth) and Kiana Palacios (42th) additional solidified Mexico’s commanding place.
The second half introduced no respite for Jamaica, as Diana Ordoñez prolonged Mexico’s result in 4-0 with a aim within the 58th minute. Merely 10 minutes later, Alicia Cervantes added one other aim to the tally for El Tri. The goal-scoring spree continued with María Sánchez securing her second aim within the seventy fifth minute, whereas Charlyn Corral accomplished the victory with a aim within the eighty fifth minute.
After the sport three gamers, Future Powell, Chris-Ann Chambers, and Shaniel Buckley, departed Chile for Panama to affix the senior Reggae Girlz squad which can have interaction Panama within the CONCACAF Ladies’s Gold Cup Qualifier on Wednesday.
In badminton, Jamaican athletes confronted blended outcomes with each wins and losses in singles and doubles competitions. Within the males’s singles Spherical of 32 motion on Saturday, Soren Opti of Suriname beat Jamaica’s Bradley Evans 2-0 (21-16, 21-18), and Mexico’s Luiz Garrido defeated Samuel Ricketts 2-0 (21-13, 21-16), additionally within the Spherical of 32.
The ladies’s equal resulted in Katherine Wynter defeating Bolivia’s Juanita Siviola 2-0 (21-3, 21-8) in 17 minutes, and Tahlia Richardson blanked Chile’s Vania Diaz 2-0 (21-13, 21-11) in half-hour.
The blended doubles resulted in Evans and Wynter happening 0-2 (21-10, 21-15) within the Spherical of 32 to Cuba’s Yeily Ortiz and Juan Bancomo in 22 minutes.
Within the girls’s singles Spherical of 16 on Sunday, Wynter misplaced 0-2 (21-5, 21-8) to Canadian Jun Ling Rachel in 19 minutes. Richardson additionally misplaced 0-2 (21-14, 21-5) to American Jennie Gai.
The lads’s doubles Spherical of 16 noticed Evans and Ricketts struggling a 0-2 loss (21-11, 21-12) to Brazilians Davi Carvalho and Fabricio Rocha.
Wynter and Richardson superior in girls’s doubles after beating the Chilean pair of Camila Asforga and Valerie Santos 2-0 (21-17, 21-12), and in blended doubles, Richardson and Ricketts misplaced 0-2 (21-15, 21-11) to Mexico’s Luiz Montoya and Mariam Rodriquez.
In boxing, Jamaican athletes Jaden Eccleston and Sanji Williams confronted defeats of their respective weight courses. On Saturday, Eccleston misplaced 0-5 to Haiti’s Cedrick Belony-Deliepre in bout eight of the boys’s 80kg preliminaries Spherical of 16, whereas Williams misplaced in bout seven of the boys’s 63.5kg preliminaries Spherical of 16 to Mexican Miguel Martinez.
The gymnastics efficiency noticed Tyesha Mattis and Sabrina Lyn competing, with blended ends in their respective occasions. Mattis completed 15th on the uneven bars with 12 factors on a 5.3 issue and a 6.9 execution. She didn’t end within the all-around occasion and was 33rd on the stability beam, and didn’t begin within the flooring train.
On Saturday, Sabrina Lyn completed sixth within the girls’s 100m breaststroke in Warmth One in 1:15.32 (7.13 seconds behind the winner).
Different Jamaican athletes competed in numerous disciplines, together with weightlifting, diving, and taekwondo.
Brandon Sealy misplaced 1-2 (11-2, 8-8 with two penalty factors to the winner, 20-8) to Brazil’s Lucas Ostepiv in bout two of the boys’s taekwondo Kyoruhi -80kg Spherical of 16.
Within the males’s 89kg Group A of weightlifting, Omarie Mears completed in 13th place, and Yona Knight-Knowledge additionally completed in 13th place within the males’s springboard diving on Saturday, with Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson ending 18th.
Knight-Knowledge was 11th within the ultimate.
Competitors on the Pan American Video games will proceed on Tuesday as Jamaican athletes goal to enhance their performances and safe {qualifications} for the upcoming Olympic Video games.