In a magical second for Jamaica, bike owner Dahlia Palmer secured the nation’s first medal on the 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, Chile. Palmer’s exceptional efficiency within the keirin last earned her a bronze medal, making her the pleasure of Jamaica.
Dahlia Palmer was solely 0.286 seconds behind the winner, Colombian bike owner Martha Bayona, who clinched the gold, with Mexico’s Luz Gaxiola carefully following in second place, trailing Bayona by 0.273 seconds.
Earlier within the day, Palmer had additionally impressed by ending third within the spherical one heats, the place she was simply 0.127 seconds behind Bayona. In that occasion, Chile’s Daniela Calilef secured the second place, trailing Bayona by a mere 0.066 seconds.
Palmer’s luck took a activate Thursday
Nevertheless, Palmer’s luck took a activate Thursday when she positioned seventeenth within the girls’s dash qualification, clocking in at 11.693 seconds, virtually a full second behind Bayona, who emerged because the winner with a time of 10.699 seconds.
On a special sporting entrance, Jamaican tennis participant Blaise Bicknell confronted a difficult match within the males’s singles Spherical of 16, in the end shedding 3-6, 7-6, 2-6 to Chile’s Tomas Barrios. Bicknell additionally participated within the males’s doubles quarter-finals alongside compatriot Rowland Phillips however was defeated 6-2, 6-3 by the Brazilian pair of Gustavo Heide and Marcelo Demolinar.
Jamaica’s presence on the 2023 Pan Am Video games is substantial, with 90 athletes representing the nation throughout 16 sporting disciplines. This 12 months’s efficiency builds upon the success of the 2019 Video games in Lima, Peru, the place Jamaica secured a complete of 19 medals, together with six gold, six silver, and 7 bronze. This achievement surpassed the earlier greatest efficiency of 14 medals (two gold, 4 silver, and eight bronze) recorded on the 1959 Chicago Video games.
