the sportsman Yuberjén Martínez will share the money that Colombians donated to him through a campaign that went viral after his performance at Tokyo 2020.
The Olympics have just ended in which the Colombian team won 5 medals (4 silver and 1 bronze). Athletes like Mariana Pajón, who won her third Olympic medal and burst into tears, Luis Javier Mosquera, Anthony Zambrano, Sandra Lorena Arenas and Carlos Ramírez, managed to get on the podium and put the country’s name on the highest.
On the other hand, other athletes such as the boxer Yuberjén Martínez, who had won a medal in Rio 2016, came very close to achieving the goal. In the case of the boxer, a controversial arbitration ruling took him away from the possibility of hanging a medal and thus, get the financial reward offered by the Government.
Yuberjén Martínez will share money donated to him with other athletes
The one born in Turbo, Antioquia, said goodbye to the jousting in the quarterfinals of the 54 kg category against the Japanese Ryomei Tanaka. The fight that the Colombian won, inexplicably had the opposite result for the judges who were immediately expelled from the competition after his ruling. After this defeat, many of the boxer’s dreams came crashing down.
The tremendous, as the fighter is also known, did not stop expressing his agreement and obviously showed his frustration at the way his dream ended. For this reason, Mariana Pajón, through her foundation, undertook a campaign called Colombia puts the medal on you, for which a web platform was set up in which any Colombian could make a donation to financially reward Martínez’s effort. .
Also, it was learned that at least 218 million pesos have been collected, money that Martínez wants to share with other of his fellow athletes. The boxer then said “I am going to share that money with them because we must also recognize the efforts of Céiber Ávila, Jorge Luis Vivas, Cristian Salcedo, Jenny Arias and Ingrit Valencia. The platform remains open for them to continue donating and for them to continue achieving their dreams.”
In this way, Yuberjén showed his good heart and made his boxing teammates happy, as some also left the jousting with controversial decisions and left empty-handed.
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