Jimena Riadigos

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Jimena Riadigos
Beach handball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics - Girls Semifinal HUN-ARG 0602 (cropped) .jpg

During the semi-finals of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games

Player information
Full name Jimena Soledad Riadigos
birthday April 7, 2000
place of birth Mar del Plata
citizenship ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
height 1.71 m
Playing position Center back
  Circular rotor
Throwing hand right
Club information
society ACHA handball
National team
  Games (goals)
Argentina beach handball

As of February 27, 2020

Jimena Soledad Riadigos (born April 7, 2000 in Mar del Plata ) is an Argentine handball player who is particularly successful in the beach handball variant .

Career

Jimena Riadigos is studying food science. She plays for ACHA de Mar del Plata (ACHA Handball) in Mar del Plata and plays in the central defensive position and as a circle runner . In 2014 and 2016 she was awarded state scholarships.

As a junior, Riadigos won the provincial championship unbeaten in 2015 with her club team. She was the second top scorer in the series and was voted the best player in her position.

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Riadigos (in blue) fends off a Croatian attack in the final of the Youth Olympic Games against Rea Banić .
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Riadigos with Zoe Turnes (front) after the final whistle of the Youth Olympic Games finals

Riadigos was initially a member of the Argentine national youth team in beach handball. With this she took part in tournaments in Venezuela and Paraguay in 2016. The following year she played with Argentina in the first-ever Pan American Beach Handball Junior Championships 2017 (U17) and won the title with her team. Riadigos was the Argentinean team captain at this tournament. A year later, the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in their Argentinian homeland were the highlight of the season. Beach handball replaced indoor handball for the first time and was Olympic for the first time. During the preparation, Riadigos took part in three of the four preparatory game trips to Brazil and in a preparatory tournament for the U-19 team and the senior national teams of Argentina and Uruguay. For the preparation time, she also moved from her home town of Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires, so as not to ruin her chances of getting together. In the preliminary round they beat the teams from Turkey, Paraguay, Venezuela and Hong Kong. Only the last group game, again against the Netherlands, was lost. While the games in the preliminary round were always clear issues, they became tighter in the main round, with all three games going into the shootout. After beating Croatia, they lost to the team from Hungary and then won very close against Taiwan. As the third-placed team in the main round, they faced one of the two feared opponents Hungary. Although the Hungarians even scored one point more, the Argentines happily won a hard-fought game in the shootout. In the final, the Argentines met Croatia again and defeated them with 2-0 sets. Riadigos won the first Olympic gold medal in beach handball with Argentina.

Unlike most of her colleagues from the junior national team, Riadigos did not immediately move up to the national beach handball team of Argentina in 2019 . So far, she has only appeared in the 20-player squad in the run-up to the Central and South American Beach Handball Championships in Maricá in Brazil and the World Beach Games 2019 in Doha , Qatar .

In February 2019 won Riadigos with her team ACHA de Mar del Plata , which also includes all the other gold medal winners of the Youth Olympic Games, Gisella Bonomi , Rosario Soto , Carolina Ponce , Fiorella Corimberto , Lucila Balsas , Belén Aizen , Zoe Turnes and Caterina Benedetti belonged to Title in the first ever Argentine beach handball summer tour. They were trained by their coach in the Argentine U-national team Leticia Brunati .

successes

Junior Pan American Beach Handball Championships

Pan American Junior Handball Championships

  • 2018: bronze

Youth Olympic Games

Argentine beach handball summer tour

  • 2019: winner

Web links

Commons : Jimena Riadigos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Riadigos on the Argentine Olympic Committee website (Spanish)
  • Riadigos at argentinadorada.com.ar (Spanish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jimena Riádigos va por su sueño: Una medalla olímpica con el Beach Handball. Retrieved February 27, 2020 (European Spanish).
  2. ↑ Jimena Riadigos convocada por la Selección Argentina de Beach - As.A.Bal. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Nueva entrega de becas a 183 deportistas destacados Diario La Capital de Mar del Plata. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ El EMDeR entregó becas a 190 deportistas. In: El Marplatense. November 29, 2016, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Las chicas de Acha handball campeonas. In: Punto Noticias Mar del Plata. Retrieved February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Panamericano Juvenil de Beach Handball. In: Federación Cordobesa de Handball. February 24, 2017, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Eduardo Gallazzi - handball. Retrieved February 27, 2020 (European Spanish).
  8. ↑ Jimena Riádigos: "Fue un año lleno de emociones". Marca Deportiva, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Official Results Book - Beach Handball
  10. ↑ Las Selecciones Adultas de beach handball continúan con la preparación para el Centro-Sur de Brasil. In: Confederación Argentina de Handball. June 26, 2019, accessed February 25, 2020 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ ACHA campeón del Summer Tour de Beach Handball. Marca Deportiva, accessed February 22, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Riadigos, Jimena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riadigos, Jimena Soledad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian beach handball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Mar del Plata