Ángel Barajas (left), on the podium of the World Cup of artistic gymnastics that took place in Paris.
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Ángel Barajas shone again in Paris! The Colombian gymnast conquered this weekend the silver medal in the parallel bars final of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup with a score of 14,333.
Barajas was only surpassed by the British Joe Fraser (14,533), while the podium was completed by the Swiss Florian Langenegger, who closed with 13,900.
The Cucuteño Yan Dairon Zabala also participated in the same final, who occupied the eighth position with 12,033.
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Paris feels good to Ángel Barajas
The result confirms the rise of Barajas in the international elite, one year after having made history at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
There, with just 17 years, he won the silver medal in a fixed bar with 14,533 points, becoming the first Colombian to achieve an Olympic medal in Gymnastics and in the youngest national athlete to reach a medal in the summer appointment.
In that Olympic edition, Barajas had qualified in the 14th place of parallel bars with 14,700 points and in the fixed bar with 14,466, accessing the final. His impeccable execution in the last device allowed him to tie in score with the Japanese Shinnosuke Oka, although gold was in the hands of the Asian for better technical qualification. That action catapulted him as an immediate reference of Latin American gymnastics.
Barajas will continue his season in Hungary
Both Barajas, who also competed in the horizontal bar final – in which he finished fifth with a score of 14,200, in a competition won by the Italian Carlo Macchini (14,433) -, as Zabala will continue his competitive calendar in Europe.
Both will travel to Hungary to play the next World Cup stop at Szombathely, scheduled on September 26.
These tournaments are decisive in the sum of classification points and represent a key opportunity for preparation against future international commitments.
Barajas has been one of the most visible voices against the sport budget in Colombia.
Already, in the past, he has been critical of his social networks, asking Gustavo Petro's government not to reduce the resources of the Ministry of Sports by 2026, one of the great threats to the sector that could affect the preparation of athletes such as the Olympic medalist in Paris 2024.
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