Pedro Urgellés

Havana, June 7 (ACN)-- Sprinter Pedro Urgellés won his second title in the V Parapan American Youth Games held in Bogota, Colombia, where he won with authority the 200 meters flat (m/p) of the T12 category.

Urgellés crossed the finish line with a time of 23.75 seconds (sec), well separated from the Venezuelan García Montalve (25.41 sec) and the Dominican Díaz Rodríguez (27.14 sec).

Thus concluded his great performance in the athletics stadium of the Unidad Deportiva El Salitre, where this Monday he won the gold medal in the hectometer with a time of 11.55 seconds.

I felt very good before and after the race. It wasn't easy, although I won by a wide margin, because my rivals are not bad runners," said the double champion to the special envoy of the sports publication JIT.

In the curve I had to push hard to go out to the 100-meter (m) straight with an advantage. The time I achieved is similar to what I expected, the young man said in the interview area.

He added that since the beginning of the work the idea was to come to Colombia to win the gold in the 100 and 200 m/p, he said before sending a greeting to the people of Cuba.

Also today, Géiser Matos Isalgué, from Guantanamo, won the silver medal in the 200 m/p of the T35 class.

Winner of the crown the day before in the 400m dash, Matos Isalgué returned to face a unified event (together with athletes of other categories) and achieved a silver medal with a time of 28.37 sec.

Ecuador's Antonio Rojas Campos (27.72 sec) won the gold medal and the bronze went to Venezuela's Rivero Chourio (28.86 sec).