The Brazilian National Judo Team Is Training for Two Periods in Santiago
The athletes who arrived this Saturday at the Chilean capital to compete in the South American Games are training hard
All judoka knows that evolution is possible only if training. That\'s why the 14 athletes who will represent Brazil in the tenth edition of the South American Games are not taking a rest. They arrived last Saturday afternoon and they have already taken part in a workout . This Sunday morning, March 9th, there was a technical training at the Olympic Training Center in the basement where the disputes for medals will happen.
The program will be repeated on Monday. On Tuesday the judo fights of the largest multi-sport event from the continent begin. The first Brazilians to participate in the competition will be the extra-light athletes Breno Alves (60kg) and Gabriela Chibana (48kg) and the half lightweight Jessica Pereira (52kg). Breno has already had the experience of a continental title: he was a South American champion in Colombia in 2007. He hopes to repeat the performance in the “Olympics from South America “.
\"I \'m very calm, I feel prepared. I trained well and I have been training well in São Paulo. I did not even go to Carnival. I hope to be a champion; I came here thinking about this. It doesn’t even cross my mind not to be one, \"said Breno Alves .
In the last edition of the Games, Brazil was off the podium in this category. In 2014, there will be eight athletes. The most difficult opponents will be Javier Guedes (VEN), 39th ranked, and Juan Postigos (PER), 52nd.
“The opponents are known, I think the details makes the difference The most difficult to defeat are the ones from Venezuela and Peru. I fought against Javier several times and the fight was always balanced. Nevertheless, I fought few times against Postigos, but I believe in a good result, \"he analyzed.
The athletes who fight on Wednesday are Vinicius Sakamoto ( 66kg ) , Eduardo Katsuhiro (73kg ) , Ketleyn Quadros ( 57kg ) and Mariana Silva ( 63kg ) . On Thursday, it is time for Gustavo Assis ( 81kg ) , Eduardo Santos ( 90kg ) , Barbara Timo ( 70kg ) and Renata Januário ( 78kg ) to step on the mat. And on Friday , Rafael Buzacarini ( 100kg ) , David Moura ( +100 kg ) and Claudirene Cezar ( +78 kg ) will face their opponents.
In the Game’ last edition held in Medellin (COL), Brazil won 13 medals in the individual (in 2010, the extra-light and Open categories were also disputed). Gold won by Leonardo Leite (100kg), Rafael Silva (+100 kg and Open ) , Andressa Fernandes ( 52kg ) and Ketleyn Quadros ( 57kg ) . Silver from Luiz Revite ( 66kg ) , Daniela Polzin ( 48kg ) and Steffani Lupetti ( Open ) . Bronze with Bruno Mendonça ( 73kg ) , Eduardo Santos ( 90kg ) , Catierê Toledo ( 44kg ) , Laisa Santana ( 63kg ) and Priscila Marques ( +78 kg ) . Besides the silver by teams in the male and female and in Kata, there was a gold in Katame in Kata.
The Brazilian Technical Committee in the South-American Games 2014 Santiago is composed of the head of delegation Amadeu Moura, the coaches Fulvio Miyata and Mario Tsutsui the massage therapist, Hans Peter Stubreiter, the nutritionist Roberta Lima, the psychologist Luciana Castelo Branco and the strategist Ricardo Lucio.
