{"id":108605,"date":"2026-02-16T15:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/athletics-rd-gil-santana-and-mejia-shine-central-american-games-preselection\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:50:39","slug":"athletics-rd-gil-santana-and-mejia-shine-central-american-games-preselection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/athletics-rd-gil-santana-and-mejia-shine-central-american-games-preselection\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics RD: Gil, Santana and Mej\u00eda shine; Central American Games Preselection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>National Athletics Championship: Success and Qualification for International Events<\/h2>\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The Dominican Athletics Federation held the National Championship of Jumps, Throws, Middle Distance, Long Distance and Race Walking this weekend. The event, which took place on the tracks of Bayaguana and La Romana, served as a platform to identify the athletes who will represent the country in important competitions.\n\nAthletes with the best marks in this championship will be selected to join the national pre-selections that will participate in the Central American and Caribbean Games.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are focused on the Central American Games where we will bring our best to the track to raise the tricolor flag in the regional event.<\/p><cite>President of the Athletics Federation<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn addition to qualifying for the Central American and Caribbean Games, the outstanding performances in this championship will also serve to define the participants in the National Superior Championship, organized by the Athletics Federation in collaboration with the provincial associations.\n\nRegarding the score by province, La Romana stood out by accumulating a total of 177 points, followed by El Seibo with 128 points, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds in third place, and Monte Plata in fourth, with 60 points.\n\nThe event was supported by the Ministry of Sports, the Olympic Committee, Grupo Creso, Adidas, World Athletics, and INEFI.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Results<\/h2>\n\n\nHere are the results of the athletes who won gold, silver, and bronze medals in various disciplines:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Men&#8217;s Discus Throw:<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gold: Juan Ram\u00f3n de Vega (49.10m)<\/li><li>Silver: German Valdez, Dajab\u00f3n (46.23m)<\/li><li>Bronze: Ozoria Acosta, Espaillat (45.87m)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Bullet Boost:<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gold: Reyes Gil, San Crist\u00f3bal (2:16.39)<\/li><li>Silver: Julian Deivelin, San Pedro (2:18.94)<\/li><li>Bronze: Perez Boludez, Independencia (2:20.51)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>5,000 Meters:<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gold: Jilberto Santana, La Romana (14:26.45)<\/li><li>Silver: Ramoncito Mej\u00eda, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds (14:49.43)<\/li><li>Bronze: Montilla, Andriw (15:05.87)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>1,500 Meter Men:<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gold: Ramoncito Mejia, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds (3:53.82)<\/li><li>Silver: Del Rosario, Wand, El Seibo (3:59.98)<\/li><li>Bronze: Josenyer Cabrera, San Crist\u00f3bal (4:00.97)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>3,000 Meters Women&#8217;s:<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gold: Anayelis Ramirez, San Juan (11:40)<\/li><li>Silver: Yafreisi Adelino, Hato Mayor (11:58.64)<\/li><li>Bronze: Nai Lopez Moreta, Barahona (12:31.55)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Athletics Championship: Success and Qualification for International Events Santo Domingo \u2013 The Dominican Athletics Federation held the National Championship of Jumps, Throws, Middle Distance, Long Distance and Race Walking this weekend. The event, which took place on the tracks of Bayaguana and La Romana, served as a platform to identify the athletes who will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[776,1967,1622,11072],"class_list":{"0":"post-108605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-athletes","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-central-american-games","11":"tag-national-championship"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}