Rebecca Henriquez
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Badminton athlete Uriel Canjura became the first Salvadoran to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after he reached the grand final at the XXVII Yonex Pan Am Individual Championship Guatemala 2024. The Cuscatleco said he felt very excited.
After losing in the grand final of the tournament that was held in Guatemala against medalist Kevin Cordón, from the same country, the silver medal gave the Salvadoran the score to reach 5,900 points in the Olympic ranking and thus secured his name. among the 32 classified for the most important sports contest in 2024.
“I’m excited, very excited, it was a difficult match against Kevin, a player with a lot of experience, but I’m happy because this secures my qualification for Paris 2024, and I want to assimilate that first. Thank God that it was a medal for El Salvador,” said the athlete.
In the individual final, the Salvadoran was defeated by Cordón with 21-14, 17-21, 13-21, but he won the silver medal and the ticket to Paris 2024 in box 28 of the Olympic ranking, the feat became a canjura the first Salvadoran badminton representative in the Olympic Games.
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