It Has Been Decided Who Will Be the Athletes Competing in the Pan American Cadet and Junior Championships
There are few days left until the Pan American Cadet and Junior Championship, which will be held from July 8th to 14th in El Salvador. The teams that will fight for Brazil have just been called. The boarding Brazilian delegation is composed of 35 athletes and eight judo practitioners- a head of delegation, an assistant coach, four coaches and two physiotherapists - next Monday, July 8th for the concentration in Pindamonhangaba, where they will stay until their boarding to El Salvador, on July 11th.
For the second consecutive year, the convocation was based on the national ranking, which registered the total score achieved by each athlete in national and international competitions chosen by the coaching coordination throughout the year. Thus, the leaders of each category got the right to participate in the continental championship – junior men’s half-lightweight (73kg) , the called athlete is the second placed because the first one is injured. Having the right to take two competitors in two categories, Brazil will have two representatives in the junior men’s half middleweight (81kg) and junior women’s lightweight (57kg) and heavyweight (+78 kg) – the judokas in these cases were the second placed ones.
The called Brazilian competitors for the Pan-American Cadet Championships are the following ones: Bruno Watanabe (50kg/SP), Kainan Pires (55kg/SP), Daniel Cargnin (60kg/RS), Jeferson Luiz Santos Junior (66kg/SP), Ronnie Warlley Gomes (73kg / SP), André Humberto (81kg/MG), Enrique Francini (90kg/SP) and Matheus Rocha (+90 kg / SP), in the male; and Amanda Lima (40kg/PE), Jessica Silva (44kg/SP), Gabriela Clemente (48kg/SP), Milena Matias (52kg/MS), Carolina Pereira (57kg/RJ), Sabrina Rossetto (63kg/SP), Sarah Nascimento (70kg/MG) and Ellen Furtado (+70 kg / SP) in the female.
The Junior athletes who will compete at the same time and place as their cadets are: Luiz Claudio Lima Junior (55kg/SP), Vitor Hugo Carvalho (60kg/SP), Gabriel Pinheiro (66kg/PE), Lincoln Neves (73kg / SP), Eduardo Santos (81kg/SP), Thiago Chiodi (90kg/SP), Gabriel Souza (100kg/SP) and João Silva (+100 kg / RS), in the male; and Larissa Farias (44kg/MS), Tawany Silva (48kg/SP), Jéssica Pereira (52kg/RJ), Tamires Silva (57kg/RJ), Flavia Gomes (57kg/SP), Danielle Oliveira (63kg/RJ), Mariana Veiga (70kg/MS), Isadora Pereira (78kg / MG), Sibilla Facchiolli (+78 kg / SP) and Camilla Nogueira (+78 kg / MS) in the female.
Last year, in Buenos Aires, Brazil became a Pan-American champion in both classes. The Cadets won 13 gold medals and three silver. The Juniors won 10 gold, three silvers and three bronze medals. Leading both medal frameworks, the green and yellow colors were awarded as overall Pan-American champion. Kenji Saito, coaching manager of the cadet and junior teams, who will join the team as head of the delegation, said this year’s goal was keeping the Brazilian hegemony on the continent.
"In 2013 we had an excellent result and this year we want to keep it," said Kenji Saito and he added. "The team is perfectly able to achieve this goal, besides being well-prepared; we have very strong athletes with good results and some of them often participate in the Pan-American Judo Championship."
Kainan Pires (55kg/SP) and Ellen Furtado (+70 kg) won twice as cadets, and Tawany Silva (48kg/SP), Flavia Gomes (57kg/SP) and Gabriel Souza (100kg/SP) as juniors – besides them, Jessica Pereira (52kg/RJ), vice-champion in 2013, is also part of the team. The coaches Douglas Potrich, Danusa Bittencourt, Douglas Vieira and Andrea Berti, the coaching assistant Marcelo Theotônio, the physiotherapists Ricardo Amadei and Tiago Ferreira are also part of the Brazilian delegation.
