{"id":80490,"date":"2025-11-17T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-sports-12-immortal-legends-enter-the-hall-of-fame\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:11:36","slug":"dominican-sports-12-immortal-legends-enter-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-sports-12-immortal-legends-enter-the-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Sports: 12 Immortal Legends Enter the Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo was the epicenter of Dominican sports this weekend, celebrating the induction of twelve emblematic figures into the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame in its 59th edition.\n\nThe event took place at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, where personalities and legends of national sport gathered to honor the new immortals.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Dominican Sports Immortals<\/h2>\n\n\nThe new Hall of Fame inductees include outstanding athletes from various disciplines:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jos\u00e9 Reyes, Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n, and Jos\u00e9 Offerman (baseball)<\/li><li>Joan Guzm\u00e1n (boxing)<\/li><li>Juan Carlos Jacinto (judo)<\/li><li>Rubel Salom\u00f3n (karate)<\/li><li>Luis Ben\u00edtez (taekwondo)<\/li><li>Wilfredo Almonte (athletics)<\/li><li>Francia Jackson (volleyball)<\/li><li>Charlie Villanueva (basketball)<\/li><li>Gonzalo Mej\u00eda (player and manager)<\/li><li>Beato Miguel Cruz (coach, posthumous)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nDionisio Guzm\u00e1n, president of the Permanent Committee of the Hall of Fame, led the event, highlighting the legacy and international significance of those inducted. Manuel Estrella, Honorary President, and Rafael Damir\u00f3n, secretary, were also present.\n\nThe ceremony featured the participation of the Orfe\u00f3n de Santiago and the blessing of Monsignor Lorenzo Vargas.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tributes and Special Recognitions<\/h2>\n\n\nThe event paid tribute to Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez, a prominent Major League player, for his impact on the sport and his exemplary conduct. In addition, Yudelina Mej\u00eda was recognized, who made history by winning gold at the World Weightlifting Championship.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speeches of the New Immortals<\/h2>\n\n\nThe new members of the Pavilion shared emotional words of gratitude:\n\nJos\u00e9 Reyes: He thanked God, his family, and those who supported him in his career, dedicating the achievement to his childhood friends.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo was the epicenter of Dominican sports this weekend, celebrating the induction of twelve emblematic figures into the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame in its 59th edition. The event took place at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, where personalities and legends of national sport gathered to honor the new immortals. New Dominican Sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2550,6132,477,1651],"class_list":{"0":"post-80490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-ceremony","9":"tag-exaltation","10":"tag-hall-of-fame","11":"tag-sport"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80490","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=80490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}