Cecilia Lee and William Arroyo reign in Santiago

PATU, Santiago de Chile (22-10-2023).- The seventh gold for the Aztec delegation came in the hands of William Arroyo and Cecilia Lee, winners of the mixed pairs event in the taekwondo poomsae of the Pan American Games Santiago 2023.

The Arroyo/Lee duo, who have acclaimed Mexico on every stage of the World Taekwondo poomsae circuit since cadet age with multiple world titles and medals, performed a freestyle poomsae line with a judges' score of 7,920 points to claim the gold.

Arroyo had just conquered the highest podium a day before at the Contact Sports Center, when she won the individual poomsae modality, while Lee took the bronze medal in that event.

The podium was completed by the pairs of Elián Ortega/Ingrid Arce (Nicaragua), with 7,880 points, while the bronzes went to Puerto Rico (Arelis Medina/Luís Colón) with 7,600 points and Katlen Jervez/Mario Troya of Ecuador with 7,600.

This is the second poomsae competition in the history of taekwondo at the Pan American Games and the first time that the freestyle mixed pairs event is held. In Lima 2019, Mexico's Ana Zulema Ibañez and Leonardo Juarez also won gold in traditional pairs poomsae.