{"id":479741,"date":"2025-08-22T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/victor-perez-genere-conquers-bronze-in-wrestling-and-dr-adds-seven-medals-at-the-2025-junior-pan-am-games\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:00:12","slug":"victor-perez-genere-conquers-bronze-in-wrestling-and-dr-adds-seven-medals-at-the-2025-junior-pan-am-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/athletics\/victor-perez-genere-conquers-bronze-in-wrestling-and-dr-adds-seven-medals-at-the-2025-junior-pan-am-games\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00edctor P\u00e9rez Genere conquers bronze in wrestling and DR adds seven medals at the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>ASUNCI\u00d3N, Paraguay.<\/strong> Dominican <strong>V\u00edctor P\u00e9rez Genere<\/strong> won the bronze medal in the 125-kilogram freestyle wrestling category at the II Junior Pan American Games, which are being held in Asunci\u00f3n and conclude this Saturday.\n\n<strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/liranyi-alonso-gana-200-metros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liranyi Alonso wins the women&#8217;s 200 meters and breaks the record<\/a>\n\nP\u00e9rez Genere decisively defeated the local <strong>Iv\u00e1n G\u00f3mez<\/strong> by 8-0 (5-0, by fall), displaying a technical dominance that allowed him to reach the podium. With this result, the Dominican wrestling team concluded its participation in the multi-sport event with two bronze medals, added to the one obtained by <strong>Yorkis Carvajal Lerbours<\/strong> in the 60 kilos of the Greco-Roman style.\n\nOn his way to the bronze, P\u00e9rez defeated Mexican <strong>Rizieri Ch\u00e1vez<\/strong> (6-4) in the quarterfinals, and in the semifinals he was surpassed 10-0 by technical superiority against the Brazilian <strong>Gabriel Silva<\/strong>.\n\n&#8220;This medal represents the work and effort of all my coaches. Now we must continue working for better development in the future,&#8221; expressed the Dominican wrestler after the victory.\n\nWith the performance this Friday, the Dominican Republic occupies the <strong>18th position in the overall medal table<\/strong> with a total of <strong>seven medals<\/strong>: one gold, two silver and four bronze.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other wrestling results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Juan Andr\u00e9s<\/strong> (97 kg) lost the bronze medal match against the Mexican <strong>Juan Iturriza<\/strong> (15-2). Previously, he had defeated the Brazilian <strong>Lucas Imbernon<\/strong> (8-1), but fell in the quarterfinals against the American <strong>Thomas Dineen<\/strong> and in the semifinals against the Cuban <strong>Darell Lee<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Juan Valerio<\/strong> (57 kg) was left without a chance after losing his three matches against <strong>Jos\u00e9 Falc\u00f3n<\/strong> (Venezuela), <strong>Charles Farmer<\/strong> (USA), and <strong>Adri\u00e1n Samano<\/strong> (Puerto Rico).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Juan G\u00f3mez<\/strong> (74 kg) fell by 1-8 against the Puerto Rican <strong>Tanner Peake<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Karate<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Dominican <strong>Keanu Feliz<\/strong> fought three matches, falling to <strong>Hayato Yoshi<\/strong> (Mexico) by 1-0, drawing 2-2 with <strong>Luka Salesky<\/strong> (Argentina, defeat by first advantage) and being eliminated by the Paraguayan <strong>Dieter Rinck<\/strong> (4-2).\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Men&#8217;s indoor volleyball<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Dominican sextet finished in fifth position after defeating 3-2 to <strong>Colombia<\/strong> (25-20, 25-19, 21-25, 19-25, 15-10). The team finished with a 2-3 record in the event.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Men&#8217;s Beach Volleyball<\/h3>\n\n\nThe duo formed by <strong>Rolvin Maldonado<\/strong> and <strong>Ram\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas<\/strong> finished in tenth place, after falling 2-0 (21-15, 21-15) against the Costa Ricans <strong>Juli\u00e1n Araya<\/strong> and <strong>Jhostin Varela<\/strong>. Maldonado contributed 12 points and De Jes\u00fas 9, while Varela (18) and Araya (13) secured ninth place for Costa Rica.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Competitions<\/h3>\n\n\nThe final day of this Saturday will feature Dominican weightlifters <strong>Luis Florentino Mart\u00ednez<\/strong> (+98 kg) and <strong>Perqui Nicoll Francis Guti\u00e9rrez<\/strong> (+77 kg), starting at 11:00 a.m. (10:00 a.m. Dominican Republic time).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASUNCI\u00d3N, Paraguay. Dominican V\u00edctor P\u00e9rez Genere won the bronze medal in the 125-kilogram freestyle wrestling category at the II Junior Pan American Games, which are being held in Asunci\u00f3n and conclude this Saturday. You may be interested in:Liranyi Alonso wins the women&#8217;s 200 meters and breaks the record P\u00e9rez Genere decisively defeated the local Iv\u00e1n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":479742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[37569],"tags":[611,40231,41905,41186],"class_list":["post-479741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-junior-pan-american-games","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20NL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/LUCHA-1-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Athletics"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/LUCHA-1-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}