Alexa Moreno wins the gold medal in horse jumping to be consecrated in the Central American Games

Alexa Moreno, during one of her competitions, at the Central American Games.RR SS

The jump of horse or colt has brought out the best version of Alexa Moreno. In 2018 he hit the world growth spurt when he won the bronze medal in the elite of the exclusive of world gymnastics. That achievement catapulted her to continue at the highest level of competition. This Tuesday, in the Central American Games, he has asked for the turn to stay with the best scores and hang the gold medal.

Moreno, 28, has already won three medals in this Latin American competition. The first was won by teams with Natalia Escalera, Ahtziri Sandoval, Cassandra Loustalot and Paulina Campos. The second medal he won was in the maximum test, the all around, where the Panamanian Karla Andrea Navas beat him in the score. Mexico's favorite gymnast, just the second from her country to qualify for a final at the Olympics with Denisse Lopez, still has two events left on Wednesday. You will demonstrate your talent on the balance beam and then close with the floor routine. Alexa Moreno has reiterated, in the interventions with the media, that she is dedicated to enjoying this road to the World Cup in Belgium and, of course, to Paris 2024. On the colt, the athlete born in Baja California, performed the routine with greater difficulty of the test (qualified in 5,400 in her first jump, 4,400 in the second) In the same horse jumping test, her compatriot Ahtziri Sandoval, 27, climbed the podium in third place. The silver went to the Dominican Yamilet Peña.

Horse jumping has favored Moreno. "It's the one I'm most comfortable in because it's the one I've had to compete the most, the one I've had the most finals. I more or less know the feeling of being there. I have analyzed myself inside the apparatus, it is the one that best knows how to react, "said the gymnast after the competitions in a question made remotely by EL PAÍS.

In the uneven bars, the Mexicans who competed were Paulina Campos, 23, and Natalia Escalera, 20. Campos was the best qualified of the event, with which she won the gold; the silver went to Karla Andrea Navas, who snatched the gold from Alexa Moreno with talent in the all around; and the bronze went to the Jamaican Tyesha Mattis. Escalera didn't have his best day, but he finished in fifth place. In the men's division, the team had already won the gold, but on Tuesday Isaac Núñez, 23, took the golden medal in the individual pommel horse event.

Wednesday will be the last day for the Mexican delegation to collaborate with successes for their country that, at times, wins the leadership of the medal table to Colombia. So far, Mexico has reached 100 medals this summer and there is still more than a week of competition to go.

The power of Josué Medina, triumphs in pentathlon, rowing and volleyball

Weightlifter Josue Medina put his name in Mexican history by winning gold in the 109-kilo division in the 168-kilo lifting start. It was the first place of the Mexican delegation in the weightlifting of these Games, since they harvest nine silvers (including another from Medina won on Tuesday) and four bronzes. Another of the sports that have given good returns to Mexico are the modern pentathlon with the gold of Mariana Arceo and Duilio Carrillo in mixed relay that adds to the two individual golds of Mayan Olivier and Emiliano Hernández. In rowing, the pair of Devanih Plata and Belén Mercado were left with the triumph; in solitary fashion Alexis Lopez won his competition for another gold in San Salvador.

The duet of Juan Virgen and Miguel Sarabia gave their country the first gold in beach volleyball after beating Nicaragua in the final. In the women's division, Atenas Gutiérrez and Abril Flores celebrated the bronze after defeating Cuba.

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