DR artistic roller skater surprises in Barranquilla Games
Born in Bologna, Italy of an Italian father and Dominican mother (Zaida Arias of La Romana province), 12-year old Micaela Marcelloni Arias became the first Dominican artistic roller skater to win a medal in a Central American & Caribbean Games for the Dominican Republic. She was also the youngest of more than 5,000 competitors in the regional games that closed earlier this month with 107 medals for the Dominican Republic, including the bronze won by Marcelloni.
Listin Diario tells the family had contacted the Dominican sports authorities to encourage these to register young Micaela as a competitor in the sport. Her parents had introduced her to the sport at the early age of five years and she had showed good prowess. Take note that Italy is regarded as the best in artistic skating in the world.
In 2016, Micaela’s trainer, Stefania Priori contacted the local sports authorities to discuss the possibility of her pupil competing for the Dominican Republic. The coach would send several videos of her participating, convincing the local authorities to give the child a chance.
As reported in Listin Diario, the parents nor coach kept the plan for her to compete for the Dominican Republic to themselves until it was a given so that the child would not become anxious. Prior to her participation in the Barranquilla, Colombia regional games, Marcelloni had competed in the German Cup, where she won silver in her category. In Barranquilla 2018, Marcelloni placed third, behind Johana Apolinar of Colombia and Carolina Zermeño of Mexico.
Austo Arias Peralta, president of the Dominican Artistic Skiing Federation said that the next major events are the World Championship and the Pan Am Games in Peru in 2019. There were three other members on the Dominican artistic roller skating team.
Source: DR1, Listindiario
Aug 14, 2018
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