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Madrid, March 7 (EFE).- Colombian gymnasts Josimar Calvo and Angel Barajas qualified this Thursday for the parallel bars final of the Baku Mute Cup, which distributes points for Olympic qualification.
In the qualifying round, Calvo received a score of 14.733 and Barajas earned 14.566, placing them in fourth and fifth place. China’s Zou Jingyuan was the best with 15,766.
In the previous stages of the Cup, Barajas’ extremely difficult practice was already surprising, with 6.7, the highest preliminary grade, along with Ukrainian Ilya Kovtun. Cucutano’s execution was not as precise, but she once again showed her routine ability.
Barajas, 17, made his senior debut this year after becoming junior world champion on floor and parallel and overall runner-up in 2023.
That wasn’t the only good news for Latin American gymnastics, which also featured Mexico’s Natalia Escalera, Panama’s Carla Navas and Chile’s Macarena Pinto, all three on vault in Saturday’s final.
Escalera was third in the classification, with an average score of 13.233 between her two jumps. Navas finished sixth with 13.116 and Pinto finished seventh with 12.783.
Those who did not reach the final included the Spaniards Lia Masferrer, sixteenth, and Lia Font, who completed only one attempt, and the Uzbek Oksana Chusovitina, who at the age of 48 and intends to compete in her ninth Olympic Games in Baku. . Was in twenty-third place.
Neither Masferrer, nineteenth, nor Laura Casabuena, twenty-third, would be in the parallel final.
Qualifying stages for five other instruments will be held on Friday.
