Pan Ams Heat Up Cycling's Road to Paris in Los Angeles
Mexico's track cycling team battles for Olympic qualification at the Pan American Championships in Los Angeles. Stars like Jessica Salazar and Yuli Verdugo fight to defend their positions, facing rivals from across the Americas.
The national track cycling team will go into action this Wednesday at the Pan American Championships of the specialty that will be held from April 3 to 7 in Los Angeles, United States, searching for adding world ranking points from the International Cycling Union (UCI), with the aim of obtaining a ticket to the Olympic Games.
The VELO Sports Center located in the Dignity Health sports park complex in the city of Carson, California, will be responsible for receiving the Mexican delegation made up of 18 cyclists, in a competition supported by the Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI).
In particular, the competition will be of special importance for the Mexicans Jessica Salazar, Yuli Verdugo and Daniela Gaxiola, who are in the zone of advancing to Paris 2024, so they will have to defend their position facing the final stretch of the qualification period, which concludes on April 14 at the end of the Nations Cup in Milton, Canada.
Among the participating countries are: Uruguay, Venezuela, Bahamas, Canada, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States and Mexico.
Jessica Salazar, Yuli Verdugo, and the Mexican team chase Olympic berths at the Pan American Championships. Stay updated on this thrilling competition. Credit: CONADE
The Mexican delegation will participate in the following way:
Individual pursuit: Victoria Velasco Fuentes.
Team pursuit: Victoria Velasco Fuentes, Yareli Acevedo Mendoza, Lizbeth Yarely Salazar Vázquez and María Antonieta Gaxiola González.
Points race: Victoria Velasco Fuentes.
Omnium: Yareli Acevedo Mendoza.
Elimination: Yareli Acevedo Mendoza.
Madison: Lizbeth Yarely Salazar Vázquez and María Antonieta Gaxiola González.
Scratch: María Antonieta Gaxiola González.
Individual speed: Jessica Salazar Valles, Yuli Verdugo and Daniela Gaxiola.
500 meter time trial: Jessica Salazar Valles and María José Vizcaino.
Team speed: Jessica Salazar Valles, Yuli Verdugo and Daniela Gaxiola.
Keirin: Yuli Paola Verdugo Osuna and Luz Daniela Gaxiola González.
The tests for the men's branch will be interpreted as follows:
Team pursuit: Ricardo Peña Salas.
Omnium: Ricardo Peña Salas.
Madison: Ricardo Peña Salas and Fernando Gabriel Nava Romo.
Individual pursuit: Ignacio de Jesús Prado Juárez and Ulises Alfredo Castillo Soto.
Team pursuit: Ignacio de Jesús Prado Juárez, Ulises Alfredo Castillo Soto and Fernando Gabriel Nava Romo.
Points race: Ulises Alfredo Castillo Soto.
Scratch: Fernando Gabriel Nava Romo.
Elimination: Edibaldo Maldonado Rayas.
Individual speed: Edgar Ismael Verdugo Osuna, Jafet López Gonzaga and Jesús Daniel García Reyes.
1 kilometer time trial: Edgar Ismael Verdugo Osuna and Jafet López Gonzaga.
Keirin: Edgar Ismael Verdugo Osuna and Jafet López Gonzaga.
Team speed: Edgar Ismael Verdugo Osuna, Jafet López Gonzaga and Jesús Daniel García Reyes.
