Jamaican athlete Navasky Anderson clinched the nation’s final medal on the 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, Chile, with a commendable bronze medal efficiency within the males’s 800m remaining on Saturday.
In a outstanding achievement, the 23-year-old Anderson secured his first senior medal for Jamaica throughout the penultimate day of competitors within the occasion that ran from October 20 to November 5. Anderson accomplished the race with a time of 1 minute and 46.40 seconds, ending behind Venezuela’s gold medalist Jose Maita, who clocked 1 minute and 45.69 seconds, and Jesus Lopez of Mexico, who secured the silver medal with a time of 1 minute and 46.04 seconds.
Anderson had beforehand represented Jamaica on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, earlier in the summertime, the place he confronted disqualification throughout the heats of his specialty occasion. His excellent efficiency earlier this yr included breaking his personal nationwide report with a time of 1 minute and 44.70 seconds on the DC Monitor Championships on July 30, which allowed him to satisfy the World Championships qualifying commonplace.
With this bronze medal, Jamaica’s total medal tally on the Pan American Video games reached six, consisting of 1 gold and 5 bronze medals, a efficiency that fell under the nation’s report haul of 19 medals achieved on the earlier version in 2019.
Beneath-par efficiency
Jamaica’s below-par efficiency positioned the nation at twenty first place on the medal desk. The US topped the desk with a powerful whole of 267 medals (112 gold, 73 silver, 82 bronze), adopted by Brazil with 191 medals (60 gold, 67 silver, 64 bronze), Mexico in third place with 129 medals (48 gold, 32 silver, 49 bronze), Canada with 159 medals (46 gold, 52 silver, 61 bronze), and Cuba finishing the highest 5 nations with a complete of 67 medals (29 gold, 21 silver, and 17 bronze).
Within the ladies’s equal 800m occasion, Cuba showcased their dominance with a primary and third-place end, courtesy of Sahily Diago and Rose Almanza, respectively. Diago secured gold with a time of two minutes and a couple of.71 seconds, whereas Almanza clocked 2 minutes and three.68 seconds.
The US had two representatives within the race, with Brooke Feldmeier (2 minutes and 6.10 seconds) ending sixth and Breana Dera (2 minutes and seven.27 seconds) coming in seventh place.
Within the males’s javelin throw, Jamaican athletes Elvis Graham and Zaavan Richards confronted a difficult competitors. Graham recorded a throw of 67.86 meters, inserting him tenth, whereas Richards achieved a distance of 60.27 meters, securing the twelfth place. Curtis Thompson of the USA emerged because the winner of the occasion with a throw of 79.65 meters, whereas Guyana’s Leslain Baird claimed third place with 78.23 meters.
American Rachel McCoy wins ladies’s excessive bounce
The ladies’s excessive bounce occasion noticed victory for the USA, as Rachel McCoy cleared 1.87 meters to safe the gold medal. Her teammate, Rylee Anderson, managed 1.75 meters, incomes her a seventh-place end. Marisa Senyu of the Dominican Republic took the third spot with a clearance of 1.81 meters.
Cuba triumphed within the ladies’s 4x400m relay remaining, reaching a time of three minutes and 33.15 seconds, whereas the Dominican Republic completed second with 3 minutes and 47.27 seconds. The US workforce secured the fifth place with a time of three minutes and 35.91 seconds.
Within the males’s 4x400m remaining, the Dominican Republic clinched third place with a time of three minutes and 5.98 seconds, whereas the USA workforce completed fifth with a time of three minutes and eight.67 seconds.
