The best weightlifters in the Americas are competing in the Toronto Pan Am Games qualifier being held at the Parque del Este this week. The Dominican Republic is aiming to win four to five of the available slots, said Weightlifting Federation president William Ozuna. In the women’s competition, he said they expect six or seven medals and qualifiers for the Toronto Games. Dominican competitors in the Pan Am Games are:
Yudelquis Contreras (53 kilograms), Candida Vasquez and Georgina Silvestre (48 kg), Yineisy Paola Reyes (58 kg), Ernestina Familia (63 kg), Crismeri Santana (69 kg) and Veronica Saladin (75 kg).
The men’s team members are: Ronald Pena (56 kg), Efrain de la Rosa and Jose Alberto Peguero (62 kg), Nelson Severino (69 kg), Juan Pena and Francis (77 kg), Evaristo Gonzalez (85 kg), and Jose Familia (105 kg).
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