The last day of competitions for the Athletes from Mar del Plata at the Parapan American Games of Santiago de Chile 2023, Rodrigo Romero I have a new one this Saturday gold medal for the Argentine delegation. Furthermore, the Tigers they got on the second step from the podium in Soccer 7, while the Argentinian national team of basketball andIn a wheelchair, with Matías Méndez, she fell in a duel for bronze and finished fourth.
Rodrigo Romero had a dream debut at the Parapan American Games. After hanging the silver medal in the competition of boccia individual category BC3, with Stefanía Ferrando, carried out this Saturday gold medal in the pairs competition.
Bochero and Ferrando from Mar del Plata beat the Peruvian duo of Niurka Callupe and Dean Acosta in the final by 6 to 5 in order to climb to the top of the podium.
(Photo by: Javier Vergar / Santiago 2023)
In the first round of the day, the Argentine couple defeated María del Mar Vélez and Jesús Romero from Colombia in the semifinals by 6 to 2 and thus entered the decisive duel against the representatives of Peru.
For its part, at the Bicentenario Municipal Stadium of La Florida, the Argentina national football team 7with Nahuel Gutiérrez, Federico Ocantos, Matías Bassi and Matías Vera from Mar del Plata, won the medal money after falling in overtime of the final against Brazil by 1 to 0.
The Tigres, led by Marcelo Sánchez, had finished the qualifying phase behind the Brazilian team with four victories and one defeat. Precisely, in the final, they once again faced Brazil, against whom they had suffered their only defeat on their debut. 2 to 1. But the duel for gold was once again for the Yellowish green who, despite having played a large part of the match with one less, scored the winning goal in the first extension after equalizing in regulation 60 minutes without a goal.
Finally, to the Argentine national team wheelchair basketballwith Matías Méndez from Mar del Plata, was not enough to reach the podium and fell in the bronze medal match against Canada for 70 to 62.
After the semi-final defeat against the United States by 88 to 54, the Argentine team had to face the Canadians in the fight for bronze. However, the North American team went further and ended up reaching the third step of the podium after winning 70 to 62.
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