translated from Spanish: Pan American Games: Argentina won the first ever gold medal

Argentina continues to advance at the Pan American Games in Lima which seem to be historic for the delegation, which will seek to have the third best harvest of gold medals in history, even achieved pan-American titles in competitions in which it had never done so , as happened this afternoon. On a day full of ups and downs and where the mixed composite bow team had to play a tiebreaker and defeat one of the best couples in the world in the semi-finals, Eugenia González and Ivan Nikolajuk reached the final against another surprise such as Guatemala, and managed to conquer the gold in that discipline.

The archers won the first gold medal for Argentina at the Pan American Games. Photo: Twitter @PrensaCOA

The match was defined in the end with a result of 153-152, after the cetro-Americans had the chance to be champions in case of adding two 10 in the last shots, but fate and aiming played in favor and closed the key with a double 9 for the joy of the Argentine. As soon as his golden medal was achieved, Eugenia González immediately again competed for the bronze medal against American Paige Pearce, but ended up falling 149-143, to a rival who had no flacker in his game. In this note:

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