Women’s football, boxing, tennis, swimming, fencing and artistic gymnastics were the group of disciplines that had Olympic competitions during the programming this Sunday, July 28, in Paris 2024.
The Colombian Women’s Team achieved its first victory in this Olympic event after defeating the New Zealand team with a final score of 2-0, during the morning.
Marcela Restrepo and Leicy Santos were the ones who scored the two goals that led the ‘Tricolor’ to win this match.
The Colombian Women’s National Team will play next Wednesday, July 31 at 2:00 pm (Colombian time) against the Canadian National Team at the Stade de Nice in the city of Nice for the last day of Group A. At the same time, at the Stade de Lyon, New Zealand and France will face each other to determine the two teams that will qualify for the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games.
National boxing shone thanks to the debut of Ingrit Valencia in Paris 2024, by achieving victory after the unanimous decision (5-0) of the judges, the Olympic medalist advanced to the round of 16 of the 50 kilograms by defeating the representative of Mongolia, Yesugen Oyuntsetseg, at the North Paris Arena during the morning of this Sunday, July 28.
Ingrit will compete again next Thursday, August 1, facing Australian Monique Suraci in the round of 16 at 4:32 am (Colombian time) at the North Paris Arena.
The weather in Paris allowed the Olympic tennis competitions that were postponed yesterday to take place, which is why our country’s number one tennis player, MarÃa Camila Osorio, was able to debut in this Olympic event and advance to the second round.
Maria Camila achieved her first victory at the Games after defeating Latvian representative Jelena Ostapenko (one of the tournament favorites and number 11 in the world) on Court 6 at Roland-Garros on the morning of Sunday, July 28.
Her next match will be against Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, this Monday, July 29 on Court 7 of Roland-Garros starting at 5:00 AM (COL) – 12:00 PM (FRA)
Artistic gymnastics had national representation with the athlete Luisa Blanco who performed the women’s All-Around at the Bercy Arena in Paris 2024 and managed to qualify for the final by occupying the 24th position after obtaining a cumulative score of 51,698 points.
These numbers allowed her to become the first woman in Colombian history to qualify for the final of this event and the second national athlete after gymnast Jossimar Calvo, who also qualified in Rio 2016.
Anthony Rincón and StefanÃa Gómez, the only representatives of our country in swimming races, finished in 37th and 29th positions in the 100-meter backstroke and 100-meter breaststroke, respectively, thus ending their participation in the qualifying series for the Olympic Games that took place at the Paris La Defense Arena.
Skateboarding, boxing, MTB cycling, archery and tennis are the group of disciplines that will compete this Monday, July 29, starting with the participation of the men’s archery team made up of Santiago Arcila, Andrés Hernández and Jorge EnrÃquez, who will compete in the elimination round on the Esplanade des Invalides at 3:39 (COL) – 10:39 (FRA).
Street skateboarding will start its national competition at 11:49 (FRA) 4:49 (COL), with the athlete Jhancarlos González representing. Diego Arias will make his debut at 14:10 (FRA) 7:10 (COL) in the men’s cross country final. MarÃa Camila Osorio will continue her path in this Olympic event with her participation in the second round from 12:00 (FRA) – 5:00 (COL) and boxer Angie Valdés will compete in the preliminary round of the round of 16 of the women’s 60 kilograms at 20:00 (FRA) – 13:00 (COL).