2023-08-14 05:07:13
13/08/2023
This time the podium escaped Colombia in the most important categories of the bicicros in a World Championship.
However, as expressed by Mariana Pajón, fifth in the women’s elite race, the fact that the country has classified athletes in five of the six finals in dispute on the last day of the event that had Glasgow, Scotland as its epicenter, accounts for the level and the great generational change that exists in this modality of cycling.
At 31 years of age, and in her eleventh elite World Championship, Mariana, a three-time Olympic medalist, is still fighting the new BMX figures. The victory went to the British Bethany Shriever, current Olympic champion.
And in the midst of this great rivalry between older athletes, there are others who are beginning to gain respect to achieve privileged places as Pajón did in the past, considered, with 18 world titles, the queen of bicicros.
For Colombia, Mariana Martínez Agudelo already stands out, fourth in sub-23 in this British event; in junior, Sharid Nicolle Fayad, who a fall in the final deprived her of occupying positions of honor; o Nicole Foronda and Guadalupe Palacios, who won the world titles, in their order, in 16 and 14 years.
In men there is also a good present. Carlos Ramírez, bronze medalist at the Rio-2016 and Tokyo-2021 Olympics, this time was fourth in the World Cup, the same position as Juan José Velásquez, in junior. It should be remembered that in 15 years the Envigadeño Samuel Marulanda was champion in Scotland.
“I am happy and grateful to be in a world final once more and to be fighting for it. It was very exciting to see the triumphs of each Colombian day by day (in different modalities). It is remarkable to be in five finals of six categories and to know that a Colombian always showing what we can do. Obviously we were left with the podium, but everyone did very well”, said Mariana.
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