The third day of competition at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games left a new outstanding performance by Maggie MacNeil at the Aquatic Center, the definition of the All Around in artistic gymnastics with a historic performance and more tickets to the Olympic Games, among the highlights.
MacNeil arrived in Santiago as one of the great figures and he doesn’t disappoint: he won the third gold medal by winning the 100 freestyle with 53.64 and a new Pan-American record (he had the Bahamian Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace with 53.83 since Toronto 2015). The Canadian had also broken the record in the 100 butterflies.
Gymnastics defined the individual All Around and Canada won the men’s championship again after 60 years thanks to Felix Dolci. The podium was completed by the Brazilian Diego Soares and the American Donnell Whittenburg, while the other outstanding note was provided by the Dominican Audrys Nin Reyes when he qualified for Paris with his fifth place. Meanwhile, in women, gold went to the American Kayla Dicello when she surpassed the Brazilian Flavia Saraiva and the American Jordan Chiles (silver medal in Tokyo). The place at the Olympic Games went to the Colombian Luis Blanca (eighth).
The standout sport of the day ahead of Paris 2024 was the modern pentathlon, which awarded 10 quotas: Mexico, Independent Athletes (Guatemala competes with that name because the National Olympic Committee is suspended), the United States, Brazil and Ecuador achieved the classification among women; while for men the ticket went to Mexico, Cuba, Independent Athletes, Ecuador and Argentina.
Argentina (Wakeboard), Ecuador (weightlifting) and Uruguay (rowing) achieved their first golds on this third day of competition. Meanwhile, the United States reached 41 gold medals and leads the medal table ahead of Mexico and Canada.
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