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Aruba will participate in the Junior Caribbean
Cycling Championship in the Dominican Republic
ON August 8 and 9 a route cycling delegawtion competed in the Junior Carib- Oriana Thielman, and in the pre-junior category cyclists Kylian Balkenstein and
Ruson Gonzales will compete. Their coach was Alfredo Palavecino. The competi-
bean Cycling Championship in the Dominican Republic. tion held in the Dominican Republic will last two days. On the first day the famous
This year the competition was organized by the Dominican Cycling Federation. race against the clock race will be held and on the second day the route race.
Aruba left with a delegation of 6 cyclists to compete against other Caribbean
Junior cyclists. Our junior athletes have been preparing for this championship for numerous
months.
The athletes that were given the opportunity to represent Aruba in the junior cat- We hope to hear from our athletes soon and hope all went well this weekend.
egory are: Gabriel Thielman, Jair de Santiago and Jonathan Croes, female cyclists
Taekwondo athletes will compete in FROM August 7 to August 9 a Taekwondo del-
the 2015 Pan American Taekwondo
Youth Open in Chicago, United States egation competed in the 2015 Pan American Tae-
kwondo Youth Open in Chicago, United States.
The delegation consists of 4 athletes in the cadet
and junior category. Aruba will be represented by
the two female siblings that are very successful in
the taekwondo sport Chiara and Sophia Petroc-
chi and two male athletes Alex Fernandez and
Christian Croes. Their coach is Teofilo Rodriguez.
The competition serves as a preparation for the
major Pan American Cadet and Junior compe-
tition which will take place in the upcoming
months in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
The Aruban taekwondo team has shined interna-
tionally recently thanks to male athlete John Jairo
Maduro who fought two medal fights during the
2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.
This shows hard Aruba’s taekwondo team is
working to compete on a higher level and stand
out in tournaments held abroad.
We hope to hear from our delegation that par-
ticipated in the 2015 Pan American Taekwondo
Youth Open in Chicago, United States this week-
end and hope that all went well.
10 LOCAL Monday, August 10 2015 - ARUBA TRAVELLER
