The Dominican-Chinese mixed doubles team, Lin Ju and Jennifer Lian won gold in the 15th Latin American Table Tennis Tournament at Maldonado, Uruguay. They defeated Latin America’s highest-ranked team from Brazil. This is the first time the DR wins gold in mixed doubles. In 1978, during the first Latin American Table Tennis Championship held in Mexico, Dominicans Juan Vila aned Erol Rizek won in men’s doubles. The Latin American tournament is a qualifier for the women’s and men’s world championships of this year, in China and Belgium in October of this year.