peanut Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 With the Pan Am qualification tournament over, here are the Latin American countries and territories -- plus Canada -- that have qualified wrestlers for the Olympics, and the number of wrestlers who have qualified: Canada- 5 (2 MFS) (3 WFS) Chile- 2 (2 GR) Colombia- 4 (2 GR) (2 WFS) Cuba- 10 (3 MFS) (5 GR) (2 WFS) Dominican Republic- 1 (1 MFS) Ecuador- 4 (1 GR) (3 WFS) Honduras- 1 (1 GR) Mexico- 2 (2 MFS) Puerto Rico- 4 (4 MFS) Venezuela- 4 (1 MFS) (1 GR) (2 WFS) A few highlights: Puerto Rico has qualified more men's freestylers than the other countries with 4, followed by Cuba with 3. (The US has qualified 4 as well.) Cuba has qualified the most in Greco with 5. Chile and Colombia did well to send 2 in Greco each. (The US has qualified 3.) Canada and Ecuador have qualified the most in women's freestyle, with 3 each. Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia have each qualified 2 women's freestylers for the Olympics. Pretty cool to see these countries developing women's freestyle. (The US has qualified 6.) If NCAA women's wrestling takes off, I wonder if we'll start seeing Latin American athletes compete for colleges here. Language could be a barrier, but many Latin Americans learn English in school and hear it in music and on TV. So who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrestle87 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 This is an awesome trend overall, and hopefully will lead to more total allocations going to the Pan Am tournament. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SocraTease Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Who are the 4 from P.R.? Cruz and Rivera and ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrestle87 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 41 minutes ago, SocraTease said: Who are the 4 from P.R.? Cruz and Rivera and ? I would assume Franklin Gomez and.....Ramos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanut Posted March 2 Author Share Posted March 2 6 hours ago, SocraTease said: Who are the 4 from P.R.? Cruz and Rivera and ? Cruz and Rivera plus Ethan Ramos (86kg) and Jonovan Smith (125kg). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgaveMaria Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Canada does more than Hockey & curling? ” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanOfPurdueWrestling Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 On 3/2/2024 at 6:38 AM, peanut said: Cruz and Rivera plus Ethan Ramos (86kg) and Jonovan Smith (125kg). 4/4 qualifiers from Puerto Rico are from America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanut Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 3 hours ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said: 4/4 qualifiers from Puerto Rico are from America? Seems so. The US is actually cleaning up with 12 MFS qualifiers so far: Micic, RBY, Cruz, Rivera, Gomez, Dake, Taylor, Amine, Ramos, Snyder, Parris, and Smith. (Canada gets credit for Dhesi.) Of course, only four of those 12 MFS qualifiers will be repping the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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