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Yvonne Losos de Muñiz Claims Individual Bronze Medal at Pan American Games |
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Yvonne Losos de Muñiz
of the Dominican Republic successfully defended her Individual Bronze Medal at
the 2007 Pan American Games taking place July 12 to 29 in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
Having earned a score of 69.30% for third place in the first of
two rounds of individual competition on Monday, Losos de Muñiz returned to
Deodoro Stadium for Wednesday's Musical Freestyle competition, which sees
athletes choreograph required technical movements to the music of their choice.
Compiled by Klassic Kur, Losos de Muñiz's Freestyle program features Vivaldi's
'Four Seasons' performed by Argentinean flamenco guitarist, Gustavo Montesano,
accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic. Riding Bernstein Las Marismas, Losos de
Muñiz was awarded a score of 69.70% by the panel of five international judges.
Averaging the two individual scores, Losos de Muñiz's final total of
69.50% gave her the Individual Bronze Medal, staying just ahead of Canada's Tom
Dvorak whose final total was 69.45% riding Beaumarchais. Christopher Hickey of
the United States earned a total score of 70.725% riding Regent to claim the
Individual Gold Medal while Lauren Sammis, also of the United States, won the
Silver Medal after scoring 69.925% with Sagacious HF.
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Yvonne Losos de Muñiz: A Foot in Two Worlds |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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 She is
the only dressage medalist from the 2003 Pan American Games to return
to the Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007, and Yvonne Losos de
Muñiz has proven her consistency by adding a second bronze medal to her
Pan Am resumé. This medal means something very different to the first
one, which she won on home soil and as part of a team in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic. “It’s totally different here,” she says shortly
after the medal ceremony. “I don’t have the team, and last time it was
my home country. I think I get as nervous and stressed no matter what
the circumstances – I don’t think that really matters. But today was
for me and for my husband. It was also for my country of course, but it
wasn’t for anyone else like it was in Santo Domingo.” The experience is
also different this time around because she is on Bernstein Las
Marismas, and not Inatana Las Marismas, her last Pan Am partner. “This
was a lot harder than four years ago because the horse I have is
younger and inexperienced. He was originally supposed to be my reserve,
but my first horse unfortunately got injured.”
Yvonne
Losos de Muñiz is an uncommon example in the dressage world: an
established international competitor who comes from a developing
nation, one that was not even in a position to send a team to these Pan
Am Games. Her position straddles opposite ends of the sport, the result
of which is a divided lifestyle and conflicted opinions about the Pan
Am Games.
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