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Ecuador improves its participation in the Bolivarian games
Posted On 26 Nov 2013

Elizabeth Bravo
The national delegation added yesterday 53 gold medals, in the seventeenth Bolivarian Sports Games, Trujillo 2013 (Peru), with only four days of the completion of the tournament and which already exceeds what they did four years ago at the Sucre Games in 2009.
In the competition carried out in Bolivia in 2009, the tricolor added 48 gold medals, which, in the current Bolivarian Games, Ecuador has already better gold medals.
Yesterday, in Peru, the triathlete Elizabeth Bravo, the women’s team chess; Sofia Correa (daughter of the Ecuadorian President), continues to improve, and Henry Sigchos in taekwondo, won gold.
Other triumphs earned, besides the last addition of yesterday, are those of Carlos Matute, who surprised at the Games by winning the half marathon of skating. Racquetball highlighted in combined teams that finished first, by the performance of Jose Alvarez, Maria Paz Muñoz, Fernando Rios, Maria Veronica Sotomayor and Jose Ugalde, who won the first place in the team event.
The horse riding delegation earned the first place by winning Bolivarian individual event (William Narvaez) and team (Narvaez, Gonzalo Meza, Carlos Narvaez and Ronald Zavala).
Samantha Arevalo and Ivan Enderica also highlighted by earning two gold medals each, after winning 5 and 10 km open water.
Yoan Blanco, Lissette Antes, Andres Montaño and Vicente Huacon dominated the wrestling.
The women’s basketball made history back to first after 28 years when they won gold in the event held in Cuenca and had as part of the team to the Landthis sisters and Clara Ortiz.
The sub 18 soccer fell last night 1-3 against Colombia and stayed with the silver medal.