Juan Miguel Rodriguez

Havana, May 16 (JIT) - A silver medal for Juan Miguel Rodriguez, three individual tickets and another one for the team won the Cuban shotgunners in the skeet event of the qualifying tournament for the Central Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023.

The organizers of the competition, based in Cundinamarca, Colombia, provided all the results of the event in which 22 shooters and six teams took part.

In the individual competition, Rodriguez came second in the qualifying phase with 116 targets broken in five rounds of 25 each. Guillermo Alfredo Torres did not reach the semifinals with an accumulated 104 (12th place), nor did Servando Puldón with 95 (19th).

In semifinal two, Rodriguez dominated with 25 plates, tied with Puerto Rico's Miguel Pizarro. Both advanced to the match for the gold, together with the leaders of semifinal one.

In the decisive segment, the Cuban was once again at a great height, to the point of losing the title with a tight slate of 31-30 (gold shot) to Guatemala's Carlos Padilla. The bronze went to Mexico's Carlos Segovia (22).

The 22 participants in the competition scored for San Salvador 2023, as explained to JIT the national commissioner of this sport, Arnaldo Rodriguez, that was the number of tickets expected to deliver.

As for the team competition, the qualifying stage was dominated by the Dominican Republic with 201 points, ahead of Puerto Rico (196), Guatemala (191), Cuba (187), Guadeloupe (183) and Colombia (177).

In the match for the crown, the Puerto Ricans defeated the Quiqueyans 6-2, while for the bronze medal, the Guatemalans defeated the Cubans 7-3.

Rodriguez, Olympic bronze medalist in Athens 2004, will lead the skeet legends in another regional sport festival.