Anthony Zambrano starts his way to Paris 2024

The Valledupar . Bolivarian Games marks the beginning of the Colombian Olympic cycle Anthony Zambranoa way to Paris 2024 that the runner-up of the Tokyo 400 meters 2020 he tries to get off to a good start at home, for the audience of the region he comes from.

At the age of 24, the athlete was born in maicaowill try to keep improving in these two years to keep the Olympics at his best level and medal again, like the one that made him the first Colombian to medal in a track event.

The Bolivarians, according to their coach, the Cuban Nelson Gutierrezwill be the chance for Zambrano to recover his best level, as he is still “not at his peak”.

“We’re more or less at 90 or 92 percent and it’s an important competition. It’s always been in the plans to be in the full Olympic cycle and the idea is to be in Valleduparespecially if Colombia is the location,” the technician said in an interview with the newspaper Time.

A ROCKET CARRIRE

Zambrano was trained as an athlete in Barranquilla, but his growth came about in Quito, where he has been training for several years under the guidance of Cuban Gutiérrez.

2019 was the year of its great eruption: gold in the Pan American Games in Lima and silver at the World Cup in Dohaa surprising hope for Colombia that didn’t have an athlete on its radar that had gone unnoticed until then.

With his confidence high, the athlete set himself the goal of winning a medal in the Tokyo Olympics. His overwhelming personality, which stands out everywhere, is what allowed him to arrive as one of the favorites in Japan.

The pressure for the weak results his country had achieved in the competitions until then, the recognition that made him feel like a star the size of Caterine IbarguenOlympic triple jump champion in Rio 2016, and the annoyance that would take him out of the deciding race, didn’t stop Zambrano from fulfilling his dream.

On August 5 last year he took part in the final of the 400 meters and with his positive attitude he arrived at the starting point as usual with a necklace around his neck and gold earrings in which the “400” can be seen.

This also enabled him to climb four positions in the last 100 meters to beat his rivals and win silver, a dream fulfilled already with a view to Paris 2024 and a path that will start at home, in the Bolivarian Games.

PARTICIPATION OF COLOMBIA IN THE CONTESTS

According to him Colombian Olympic Committee (COC)the country will be represented by 635 athletes who will participate in the 33 sports and 54 disciplines of the Bolivarian Games, which begin on June 24 and end on July 5 in the capital of the Caribbean department of Cesar.

olympic medalists Ingrit Valencia Yes Carlos Ramirez will be the flag bearers of Colombia at the opening ceremony of the XIX Bolivarian Games of Valledupar, in which the country will try to win the title five years ago in Saint Nicholas.

Valencia, 33 years old and born in the department Caucawon bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympics, has a rich history in the Olympic cycle: gold in bolivarians (Santa Marta 2017), South Americans (Cochabamba 2018), Central America and the Caribbean (Barranquilla 2018) and pan-american (Lime 2019).

She is accompanied by the cyclist from Antioquia Carlos Ramirezbronze medalist in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 and in Tokyo 2020.

The trajectory of the man from Antioquia includes two world titles in BMXin the 2002 and 2012 youth and junior categories. He also climbed to the top of the podium in the 2018 Cochabamba South American Games and gold and in the 2017 Santa Marta Bolivarian Games, among other sporting achievements.