{"id":89877,"date":"2025-11-27T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-weightlifting-and-wrestling-candida-vasquez-leads-triumphant-return\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:18:51","slug":"dominican-weightlifting-and-wrestling-candida-vasquez-leads-triumphant-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-weightlifting-and-wrestling-candida-vasquez-leads-triumphant-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Weightlifting and Wrestling: C\u00e1ndida V\u00e1squez Leads Triumphant Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>PUNTA CANA, LA ALTAGRACIA.<\/strong> The national weightlifting and wrestling teams returned to Dominican soil after their outstanding participation in the XX Bolivarian Games 2025 Ayacucho-Lima, where they obtained a total of eight medals.\n\nThe arrival of the athletes, who competed representing the Dominican Republic, took place on Wednesday evening.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Success at the Bolivarian Games<\/h2>\n\n\nC\u00e1ndida V\u00e1squez, gold medalist in weightlifting, led the group of nine athletes who arrived at Punta Cana airport.\n\nThe weightlifting team won a gold medal, a silver medal, and two bronze medals. Meanwhile, the wrestling team achieved three silver medals and one bronze medal.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We positively value returning to the country with good results, as well as serving as an inspiration for their teammates to win medals.<\/p><cite>C\u00e1ndida V\u00e1squez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAlong with V\u00e1squez, bronze medalists in weightlifting, Pamela Rojas and Dauri Vargas, also arrived, accompanied by the other Dominican representatives of the discipline and their coaches.\n\nRojas expressed his surprise at the results obtained, while Vargas highlighted the good work done.\n\nEdison Adames Garc\u00eda, silver medalist in wrestling, expressed his pride in representing the country.\n\nCarlos Alberto Adames, also a silver medalist in wrestling, commented that the competition will serve as preparation for the qualifier for the Central American and Caribbean Games.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNTA CANA, LA ALTAGRACIA. The national weightlifting and wrestling teams returned to Dominican soil after their outstanding participation in the XX Bolivarian Games 2025 Ayacucho-Lima, where they obtained a total of eight medals. The arrival of the athletes, who competed representing the Dominican Republic, took place on Wednesday evening. Success at the Bolivarian Games C\u00e1ndida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[10313,901,2799,9644],"class_list":{"0":"post-89877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-bolivarian-games","9":"tag-fight","10":"tag-medals","11":"tag-weightlifting"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89877","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=89877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}