The Dominican Republic has registered athletes in 24 sports for the Guadalajara, Mexico Pan Am Games this fall, 14-30 October, the Dominican Olympic Committee announced yesterday as reported in Listin Diario. COD president Luis Mejia said 244 athletes were registered to meet the event’s booking deadline, but the actual team could be smaller.
Mejia said that the Dominican athletes qualified to compete in badminton, basketball (men’s), boxing, archery, equestrian events, fencing, gymnastics, handball (men and women), judo, sailing, skeet, swimming, track and field, table tennis, tae kwon do, volleyball, beach volleyball, weight-lifting and wrestling.
In the previous Pan Am Games that took place in Rio de Janeiro, the Dominican delegation won 29 medals (six gold, six silver and 17 bronze).