The Santo Domingo Province (PSD) won the XXXVI Elite Men’s Boxing National Championship after accumulating five gold medals and adding 38 points, to dominate the final card held at the Carlos Teo Coliseum, in the National District.
In the tournament organized by the Dominican Federation of Amateur Boxing (Fedoboxa), the PSD fighters added five gold, four silver and two bronze medals for their 38 points; beating the East region that won four gold, four silver and five bronze for 33 points, finishing second.
The North region accumulated 14 points (two gold, two silver and three bronze) to occupy third place. The South with 10 points (one gold, one silver and 6 bronze) was fourth, with an accumulation of 10 points, and fifth place went to the National District with 10 points (one gold, one silver and 10 bronze).
Final winners
The five gold medals for the PSD region were won by Waner Lara (54 kg) who won 4-1 over Luis Manuel Asencio (DN); Jean Carlos Pérez in the 57 kg who defeated VÃctor Peguero (East) 5-0, Elizer RodrÃguez over Kervin Guerrero (East) in the 60 kg division, Noel Pacheco over Brian Ortiz (North) 5-0 in the 71 kg and Willy Noel Hernández who won 4-1 over Félix Junior Pérez (South) in more than 92 kg. The defeated were left with silver medals.
Euri Cedeno, in the 75 kg, defeated Miguel Angel Arias by RSC to give the East its second of four gold medals won by that region. Gold medals for that region were also won by Nathanael Jiménez in the 51 kg who won 4-1 over Enmanuel Javier (South), Cristian Pinales who won by RSC over Esterlin Guzmán (PSD) in the 86 kg and Daniel Guzmán in the 92 kg over Yonatan Pimentel (PSD) 4-1.
The North region won its two gold medals with Jho Wagner Ortiz in the 48 kg by beating José MarÃa Mejia (East) 4-0 and Elvis del Castillo who defeated Riner de Jesús (PSD) in the 63 kg.
The South obtained its gold medal in the 80 kg division with its fighter Luis Tejada who defeated Yeremis Puello (East) 4-1, and the National District also added a gold with Jhonny Fernández who defeated
Kevin Jiménez in the 67 kg division.
Rubén GarcÃa, president of Fedoboxa, highlighted the great technical and organizational level of the tournament, which was made possible by the support offered by the Ministry of Sports in the person of its head, engineer Francisco Camacho.
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