Street to London 2012!
Athletics
Do you know- Guatemala’s racewalker Julio Urias obtained a bronze medal for putting third within the males’s 50 km stroll within the Pan American Video games in 1995.
Boxing
Do you know- Undoubtedly, Alexis Arguello was one of many world’s most profitable skilled boxers. Actually he was the toast of the Latin American sporting group. Between 1974 and 1983, Nicaragua’s former boxer Alexis Arguello gained six world championships ( featherweights & lightweights) and have become an icon in Latin America. Sports activities Illustrated printed an interview with Arguello in October 1985.
Pan American Video games
Do you know- By October, 1975, the Panamanian Olympic Committee despatched a nationwide delegation, made up of 19 athletes, to Mexico Metropolis to take part within the Pan American Video games, an important pre-Olympic occasion within the Western Hemisphere since 1951. The workforce from Panama competed in six sports activities: aquatics (1), biking (5), fencing (1), taking pictures (6), weightlifting (2), and wrestling (4). Two weightlifters, Narciso Oran and Pablo Justiniani, and one wrester, Segundo Olmedo, had been probably the most distinguished nationwide athletes within the worldwide video games. Sarcastically Man Abrahams, the nation’s finest athlete, didn’t compete in Mexico. The next yr, Abrahams, an Afro-Panamanian sprinter, completed fifth within the males’s 100m, with a time of 10, 25 seconds, on the 1976 Montreal Video games.
Host Nation
Do you know- Managua, the capital metropolis of Nicaragua, hosted the Caribbean Boxing Match in 1984. Eight nations competed within the worldwide occasion: Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the host nation. Puerto Rico and Venezuela didn’t compete in Managua. The Nicaragua’s boxer Gustavo Herrera gained the gold medal within the 54-kilogram class on the 1984 Central American and Caribbean Match.
Pan American Video games
Do you know- The Nicaraguan Olympic Committee didn’t take part in three Pan American Video games: in 1951 in Buenos Aires (Argentina), in 1959 in Chicago (U.S.), and Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 1963.
Softball
Do you know- The boys’s softball workforce of Guatemala got here in eighth place within the Central American and Caribbean Video games in 1982.
Swimming
Do you know- Towards the top of the Nineties, Panama’s swimmer Eileen Coparropa -the nation’s finest feminine athlete in that time- captured a silver medal within the Pan American Video games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Throughout the previous Video games, by 1995, she had completed fifth within the ladies’s 50m.
Taekwondo
Do you know- Taekwondo, an Olympic sport, is a well-liked sport in Costa Rica and Guatemala.
Monitor & Discipline
Do you know- On the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Video games, Jennings Blackett (Panama) set a brand new worldwide report of 10,4 seconds within the males’s 100m, the most effective data within the Thirties.
Volleyball
Do you know-By 1974, Panama gained the best to compete within the Males’s Volleyball World Cup within the United Mexican States. This Spanish-speaking nation grew to become the primary Central American nation to take part within the FIVB World Championships.
