The field and track will give 45 tickets to Santiago. Author: Calixto N. Llanes
The Central American and Caribbean Games (JCC) are of great importance to the athletes of the region, who see this event as a key step in a four-year cycle in which the Olympic Games are the most desired moment, not only on a competitive level, but also symbolically.
In addition to creating a space to test each athlete’s level against their “neighboring” peers in the area, the Central Caribbean multisport competitions are an important step along the route as they provide tickets for the Pan American Games (JJPP), Intermediate and Above, for which you need to go on the way to the event under the five rings.
This 2023 San Salvador JCC will coincide with Santiago de Chile’s JJPP, which is why it’s so important for many to get to that first moment well in order to get medals or related performances that will allow them to qualify. multiple continental tournament and, once there, to compete for controversial tickets to Paris 2024.
For the upcoming Central Caribbean Games, the number of places the sports group will provide at the Pan American Games has already been confirmed.
Athletics will have 45 spots for individual and relay winners, except for the half marathon and 35km march.
In the open waters, 16 of the top eight classified for both sexes will be offered, representing Zone 2 of the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Confederation.
In boxing and hockey, the finalists of each gender will be safe, while in handball and water polo, the three podium winners will be able to qualify. In the case of baseball, the fourth-place team also wins.
Sports shooting will give 17 tickets to Santiago de Chile. Each gender will have: a pair of 10m air rifle tickets (4); one in a 50m three-position rifle (2), two in a 10m air pistol (4); one in 25m pistol/rapid fire (2) and one in the pit (2). Finally, on the plates (3), women will have two places, and men only one.
His archery peers will have four places distributed one for each gender in curved and complex shape modalities. These slots will be for the highest ranked athletes from the country that did not earn slots during the 2022 Pan American Championships.
In triathlon, the winners of the mixed relay will have their place, although in the event that winners have already been classified, the advantage will go to the country with the best place that did not achieve it.
In mountain biking, two tickets will be given away to the respective XCO winners in each gender, while in equestrian sports there will be eight tickets awarded to the top four countries at the collective level and the countries with the top four riders at the individual level. who did not qualify through their teams.
Finally, bowling will also give out a sextet of tickets, divided equally between men and women, based on the number of pins each country adds in singles, doubles and triples.
Source: Juventud Rebelde