By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
Night time 4 of the Junior Pan American Video games swimming competitors was a fast one with solely three occasions contested.
Successful two of the three occasions on the ladies’s facet was Brazil’s Stephanie Balduccini. The Michigan-trained Paulista began off the evening with a dead-heat win within the 50 freestyle. She and Colombian sprinter Isabella Bedoya each hit the wall in 25.42 to prime the rostrum collectively. For Balduccini, this marks a small add from the 25.24 she threw down at Brazilian Nationals in April.
Bedoya, in the meantime, enters new territory with this time. She shaved over a half second off her 25.91 earlier finest right now, and he or she now sits inside putting vary of Isabella Arcila’s 25.11 nationwide document. Bedoya additionally brings Colombia again its first swimming gold in Asunción, catapulting the nation to 4th within the medal desk behind Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.
After the duo posed in a coronary heart form on prime of the rostrum, Balduccini went again to work as a key leg of her nation’s profitable 800 freestyle relay. The foursome stopped the clock in 8:08.49, giving Balduccini her seventh win of the Video games. Argentina got here in second, whereas Colombia reaped bronze with a brand new nationwide document of 8:14.66.
In between Balduccini’s two golds, Argentina’s Agostina Hein turned heads within the girls’s 400 IM. Hein dominated the sphere and reset her finest time from 4:41.75 to 4:38.41. Hein now sits lower than a second from the 21-year-old Argentine document of 4:37.51. 11 seconds behind Hein, teammate Magdalena Portela touched in silver to make it a 1-2 for the nation.
Just like the day earlier than, the standout swim of the boys’s meet went to Gui Caribe. He competed within the 50 free, sprinting to a 21.72 victory. This falls proper consistent with the occasions Caribe registered in Singapore a pair weeks in the past. His finest swim got here from the prelims, when he went 21.67. He went on to put tenth within the semifinals with a 21.78. The Tennessee athlete’s lifetime finest stays a 21.46 from his Nationals this spring.
Caribe’s Brazilian teammate Stephan Steverink bought his fourth particular person gold in as many days of competitors. This time, he led the 400 IM ultimate with a small private better of 4:16.06. Guilherme Gustavo made it a 1-2 affair for Brazil in 4:18.15.
The Brazilian males made it three for 3 by taking the 800 free relay in 7:18.49. Mexico took sliver, and Chile established a brand new nationwide document of seven:26.26 to spherical out the rostrum.
Medal Desk After Day 4
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Complete
Brazil
20
8
5
33
Argentina
5
7
3
15
Mexico
2
5
5
12
Colombia
1
3
5
9
Panama
1
1
0
2
Puerto Rico
1
0
0
1
Guatemala
1
0
0
1
Chile
0
2
3
5
Venezuela
0
2
0
2
Jamaica
0
1
1
2
Bahamas
0
1
1
2
Peru
0
0
2
2
Trinidad & Tobago
0
0
2
2
Guyana
0
0
1
1
Bermuda
0
0
1
1
Uruguay
0
0
1
1
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