Swimming made all the difference and the National District kept the pendant as champion of the National Sports Games. The swimming events took place at the La Vega Olympic pool. The better swimmers enabled the National District and Province of Santo Domingo to defeat the East Region that had been leading the competitions.
The Metropolitan Zones (National District and Santo Domingo province) thus won the 14th National Sports Games Hermanas Mirabal 2018 that took place in the central and northcentral part of the country from 5 to 16 December 2018.
The standing of the regions was:
Metropolitan Zone: 229 medals (81 gold medals, 72 silver and 76 bronze)
East Zone: 207 medals (79 gold, 75 silver and 53 bronze)
North Zone: 204 medals (49 gold, 71 silver and 84 bronze)
South Zone: 145 medals (38 gold, 42 silver, 65 bronze)
Hermanas Mirabal Zone 153 medals (38 gold, 31 silver, 84 bronze)
New York Zone: 17 medals (8 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze)
European Zone: 14 medals (5 gold, 3 silver, six bronze)
Puerto Rico-Florida Zone: 10 medals (3 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze).
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El Nacional
18 December 2018
