Pan American Champion! The fencer Katherine Paredes won her place at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Published at: 08/04/2024 10:04 AM
The fencer fencer Katherine Paredes
got her ticket to the next Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in the women's sabre category.
The Venezuelan won her Olympic ticket
after beating Cuba's Leidis Paredes 15-10 in the sabre final of the Pan American Fencing
Championship, held in Costa Rica.
In the phase of 16 match, she beat Chile's
Yolanda Muñoz 15-9, then got rid of Colombia's Jessica Morales
15-12 in the quarterfinals. Paredes , the sixth place in the main draw,
beat Heyddys Valentin from the Dominican Republic in the semifinal, 15-12 before the final against the Cuban one, according to a press release
from the Venezuelan Olympic Committee.
Paredes became the Venezuelan ranked 23rd for the most important sporting event
in the world and the third in fencing, joining Grabiel Lugo and Jesús
Limardo
Mazo News Team