Jamaica’s athlete Aaron Johnson contributed to the nation’s medal depend on the ongoing 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, Chile, by successful 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 led to a 0-0 consequence 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. Bicycle owner Dahlia Palmer had beforehand received a bronze medal within the keirin competitors. Samantha Corridor and Fedrick Dacres additionally secured bronze medals of their respective discus competitions. Jamaica’s present whole of 4 medals is a commendable achievement, though it falls in need of the file 19 medals received on the final version of the Pan American Video games.
In different occasions on the Pan Am Video games, Jamaican athlete Jaheel Hyde received 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 rivals from numerous nations who additionally progressed to the ultimate. Moreover, athletes from the Caribbean excelled within the ladies’s 200m semi-finals, securing locations within the ultimate.
Whereas Jamaica made progress in a number of occasions, the ladies’s soccer group confronted one other loss within the 7-8 classification, succumbing to a 1-2 defeat towards Bolivia.
