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Senior Multimedia Reporter
T&T junior athletes will begin their medal hunt at the second edition of the Junior Pan American Games in Asuncion, Paraguay, today.
Overall, more than 4,000 athletes from 41 countries are carded to compete in 28 sporting events.
At the National Archery Centre, T&T’s Cam’ron Dinnoo competes in the Individual Recurve ranking round from 9 am, while at the same time at the SND Stadium, the trio of Amara Urquhart, T’Shelle Barnes and Reese Marcano serve off their respective campaigns in the round-of-32 in the women’s and men’s badminton singles competition before Urquhart and Marcano line up in the mixed doubles round-of-32 from 3 pm.
At the National Hockey Centre, the T&T junior men’s hockey team come up against Chile in the Group B opener from 11.30 am after Canada and Mexico, the two other teams in the pool, clash from 9.30 am.
Dinnoo was the first to arrive in Paraguay, as he was in the South American country for the Games pre-camp and should be well adjusted to conditions there for the start of his competition.
T&T’s 74 athletes will compete in 13 sporting disciplines – archery, badminton, 3×3 basketball, cycling, golf, hockey, rugby, sailing, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field and triathlon.
Four years ago in Cali, Colombia, at the inaugural Junior Pan Am Games, T&T won two medals, via Kelsey Daniel in the men’s long jump and Tyriq Horsford, a bronze in the men’s javelin.
The Games began with two competitions in the same number of venues yesterday.
In the historic Old Town of Asunción, rowing kicked off the largest competition of nations played in Paraguay.
With great excitement and in the middle of the cold Paraguayan winter morning, the boats took to the water of the Bay of Asunción for the first contest of the continental event: rowing. A total of 16 rowers, divided into the two branches, will make their debut rowing to the classification for the medals.
The other sport that opened the curtain was shooting, with its modality in Skeet 75, in a sector of the huge Paraguayan Olympic Park.
There, 16 athletes from different nations gathered to start this competition of extreme precision, while the opening ceremony of the Games took place last night at the Defensores del Chaco Stadium.
Swimming (Aug 10-14), Archery (Aug 10-12), Badminton (Aug 10-13), Road Cycling (Aug 10, 17), Track Cycling (Aug 12-15), 3X3 Basketball (15-17), Golf (Aug 19-23), Hockey (Aug 10-19), Rugby (Aug 16-17), Table Tennis (16-21), Tennis (Aug 11-16), Track and Field (Aug 18-22) and Triathlon (Aug 20, 22).
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