Cuba won the 22nd Pan American Judo Championship held in Santo Domingo over the weekend. The Cubans won 12 gold medals, one silver and two bronze in the championship. The event is a classifying round for the Pan Am Games of 1999 to be held in Winnipeg, Canada. The United States placed second, Brazil was third, the US came in fourth. The DR won five medals, all bronze. Teams came from Canada, the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, Ecuador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Barbados, Aruba and Curaçao.
