Paloma García finishes 5th in the World Taekwondo Championship – Diario de Querétaro

The taekwondo of Queretaro Paloma García Moctezuma finished 5th in the +73 kilogram category, at the World Championships in the discipline held in Guadalajara, Jalisco, marking with this competition her first in the senior category at only 19 years old. , So the representative of our entity played a good role.

In the first match of the event, which brought together the best taekwondo players in the world in various sections, García Moctezuma faced Matea Kolovrat from Croatia, who gave a good fight, but was forced to retire in the second round due to injury, which gave her a pass to the quarterfinals to the representative of our entity, Which put her one step away from the battle for medals.

In that case of the quarterfinals, the woman from Queretaro was measured against the Israeli Dana Azran, with whom she unfortunately lost 2-0, leaving Paloma Garcia in fifth place in the competition, a not bad result for her either. that her participation in the event helped her score points in the world rankings, in a category in which María del Rosario Espinosa was the country’s highest representative to date.

The participation of the athletes from Querétaro will continue in the Taekwondo World Cup on Sunday when Brandon Plaza Hernandez enters the action, who will seek to add important points to the world ranking towards the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, for which he will strive to play well. A role in the division of less than 58 kilograms in the male branch.

Brandon Plaza already knows what it is like to be in the medal table for this global event, because in 2019 he finished second, the version that was held in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, so, in his country, he will at least try to repeat that medal, although the goal is He took gold and a good amount of points for his goal of getting to the Parisian Summer Show.