{"id":93707,"date":"2025-12-05T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rd-impulsa-el-deporte-central-american-weightlifting-championship-in-santo-domingo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:00:42","slug":"rd-impulsa-el-deporte-central-american-weightlifting-championship-in-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/rd-impulsa-el-deporte-central-american-weightlifting-championship-in-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"RD Impulsa el Deporte: Central American Weightlifting Championship in Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic \u2013 The country is preparing to be the epicenter of regional sports with the celebration of the Central American and Caribbean Weightlifting Championship.\n\nThe inauguration is scheduled for this Monday at 4:00 PM in the Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Puello pavilion of the Parque del Este.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This championship represents an event of great importance for the country due to its sporting impact and its qualifying significance.<\/p><cite>Jos\u00e9 Antol\u00edn Polanco Rosa, president of the Organizing Committee<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe lawyer Jos\u00e9 Antol\u00edn Polanco Rosa, president of the Organizing Committee, emphasized the Dominican Republic&#8217;s preparation to host this high-profile tournament.\n\nThis event will not only evaluate the best weightlifters in the region, but will also be a crucial step towards international commitments.\n\nThis championship is the only weightlifting qualifying event for the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026, which will take place from July 24 to August 8 of next year. In addition, it will serve as the first test event for said multi-sport event.\n\nA massive participation is expected, with 247 representatives from 23 countries, including 161 athletes, as well as delegates, coaches and international technical officials.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>These figures consolidate this championship as a key event in regional sports.<\/p><cite>Jos\u00e9 Antol\u00edn Polanco Rosa, president of the Organizing Committee<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe tournament is dedicated to licenciado Luis\u00edn Mej\u00eda, president of Centro Caribe Sport, member of the International Olympic Committee and former president of the Dominican Olympic Committee.\n\nAmong the confirmed delegations are athletes and officials from Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, El Salvador, Aruba, Trinidad &amp; Tobago, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Venezuela, Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic.\n\nThe Organizing Committee is made up of Jos\u00e9 Antol\u00edn Polanco Rosa, along with vice presidents Tony Mesa and Eddy Gonz\u00e1lez; Elisandro P\u00e9rez, secretary; Reymundo Gantier, treasurer; Willian Ozuna, general director; Maritza Ortiz, technical director, and Yuderqui Contreras, member.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic \u2013 The country is preparing to be the epicenter of regional sports with the celebration of the Central American and Caribbean Weightlifting Championship. The inauguration is scheduled for this Monday at 4:00 PM in the Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Puello pavilion of the Parque del Este. This championship represents an event of great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[776,514,1271,9644],"class_list":{"0":"post-93707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-athletes","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-weightlifting"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707","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=93707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}