{"id":115150,"date":"2026-03-22T14:51:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rd-weights-pre-selection-to-jarabacoa-for-pan-american-and-2026-games\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:51:44","slug":"rd-weights-pre-selection-to-jarabacoa-for-pan-american-and-2026-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/rd-weights-pre-selection-to-jarabacoa-for-pan-american-and-2026-games\/","title":{"rendered":"RD Weights: Pre-selection to Jarabacoa for Pan American and 2026 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.- The national weightlifting team begins its concentration this Monday in Jarabacoa, starting the final stage of preparation for the Senior Pan American Championship, which will take place in Panama City.\n\nThe delegation, led by the outstanding Yudelina Mej\u00eda, world medalist in Forde (Norway) 2025, will settle in the Jardines de la Monta\u00f1a vacation complex. There, for a month, the athletes will intensify their training with a view to their upcoming international challenges.\n\nWillian Ozuna, president of the Dominican Weightlifting Federation, reported that, in addition to focusing on the Pan American Senior Championships, the concentration in Jarabacoa will serve to strengthen the preparation for the Central American and Caribbean Sports Games Santo Domingo 2026.\n\nThe sports leader also announced that the Dominican Republic will compete in the continental championship with athletes.\n\nThis event will take place from April 27 to May 1.\n\nThe concentration, which begins this Monday, will bring together eighteen athletes from both genders. The technical team will be headed by H\u00e9ctor Dom\u00ednguez, accompanied by Moreno Mart\u00ednez, Edward Josep, the Colombian Oswaldo Pinilla and the Venezuelan Luis Silva. Crislibel Mota will be in charge of physiotherapy and Juan P\u00e9rez, as a masseur.\n\nIn the women&#8217;s pre-selection, along with Yudelina (86 kg), are C\u00e1ndida V\u00e1squez and Dahiana Ortiz (48 kg), Rosalba Flori\u00e1n (53 kg), Alicia F\u00e9lix (58 kg), Nathalia Novas (63 kg), Daiana Serrano (77 kg), Fransheska Mat\u00edas (69 kg), the Tokyo 2020 Olympic medalist Crismery Santana and Ver\u00f3nica Salad\u00edn (+86 kg).\n\nThe men&#8217;s team will be made up of Luis Garc\u00eda, Manuel Reyes, Francisco Tint\u00edn, Julio Cede\u00f1o, Daury Vargas and Yendry Ben\u00edtez, who will compete in the 60, 65, 71, 79 and 94 kg categories, respectively. In addition, super heavyweights Ezequiel Germ\u00e1n and Luis Coca (+110 kg) complete the selection.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The presence in this concentration and the participation in the Pan American Games will be training events for our athletes with a view to the Central American Games, events to which we will be able to attend thanks to the timely delivery of the resources provided by the Ministry of Sports and by its minister Kelvin Cruz.<\/p><cite>Willian Ozuna<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The national weightlifting team begins its concentration this Monday in Jarabacoa, starting the final stage of preparation for the Senior Pan American Championship, which will take place in Panama City. The delegation, led by the outstanding Yudelina Mej\u00eda, world medalist in Forde (Norway) 2025, will settle in the Jardines de la Monta\u00f1a vacation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8749,11023,9644,9645],"class_list":{"0":"post-115150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-jarabacoa","9":"tag-pan-american","10":"tag-weightlifting","11":"tag-yudelina-mejia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115150","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=115150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}