00:00In his brand from the South, we are after the track of the great athletes of our continent.
00:09Today, he is the turn to Panamá and the only Olympic champion of his history.
00:14Who was the one who made it vibrate in the Olympics in Beijing 2008?
00:19Know your history, the history of the longitude, Irving Saladino, in his brand from the South.
00:30Irving Saladino entered the history in Beijing 2008.
00:33He became the first Olympic champion in the history of Panamá and the second medalist in this country,
00:3950 years after the Joy Lavish won the bronze medal in London in 1948.
00:45Saladino, in Beijing, won the jump of the longitude with 8,34 meters,
00:51a little distant from the 8,73 meters that he had established a few months ago in Angelo,
00:56but it was enough to become an Olympic champion and enter the history of his country and in our continent.
01:08At the world, Irving Saladino also had excellent results.
01:11In 2006, he earned the gold medal in the World Championship in Moscow, with a jump of 8,29 meters,
01:18which at that time was a record sudamerican.
01:20Again, he would have an excellent result in the World Championship in Osaka 2007,
01:26crowning himself champion in the League of the Orbe.
01:29Between 2006 and 2008, Irving Saladino won everything in the jump of the longitude.
01:40Irving Saladino, in just 3 years, entered the history of the sport in Latin America,
01:44because he won absolutely everything, champion pan-american,
01:48champion mundial bajo techo, champion mundial al aire libre y champion olímpico en Beijing 2008.
01:55The first female athlete in winning a championship in America,
01:59and the second medalist in the history of his country.
02:02Además, the first champion olímpic of Panamá.
02:05A legend of the American sport and Latin America, Irving Saladino,
02:10one of the greats of the jump of the longitude.
02:12You know his history here, in his brands, from the South.
