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Jorge JIMENEZ (ESA): Salvadorian Hero
January 2008
My name is Jorge Alberto Jiménez Romero. I was born in San Salvador City, El Salvador on September 30, 1967; I’m 40 years old. I have been practicing Archery in the compound bow division since January 1996. I have been married since 1994 and have two sons, one of them is 12 and the other 8 years old. I studied Industrial Engineering in the “Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador” (El Salvador’s Technical University). My hobbies are sport hunting, listening to music and going out with my family to the beach or mountains.
The year 2007 has been the best of my career! The previous year I was happy with my 3rd place at the World Cup Final. In 2007, I was fortunate to win the World Cup Final in Dubai but I also shot well all year long. I qualified with two first places and a second place in the World Cup stages. During the toughest and crucial moments of this period and mainly in Dubai, I always tried to focus to avoid missing any shot, and when I lost concentration or nerves betrayed me, I begged God with all my strength to help me, and then I focused and concentrated again with more power to shoot the best scores I could. In that way, I was able to overcome many difficulties in many critical moments and I think that at the end, everything went very well.
My best memories about the Dubai Final are: the excellent hotel, the impressive modern architecture of the city, the wonderful beaches, the outstanding organization and the semi-finals and finals stage assembly—a shooting platform constructed over the water—and the great emotion and joy of winning this World Cup gold match for my country.
On my return to El Salvador, I was received with an exiting and amazing welcome! My country’s highest sports authorities came to the airport to wait for my arrival and, from the time the airplane doors opened they were there, ready to welcome me. They took me immediately, without passing through customs, to the VIP area where I found my parents, my whole family, a lot of TV, radio and newspaper journalists, many members of my Archery Federation, and a mass of people all there to greet me. There was a cheerleading squad outside the airport. I was driven in a limousine with police escort, followed by a parade of several vehicles, during the whole route to the city. There were many people with banners screaming and greeting me as I passed next to them. I was received like a National Hero and people were telling me that they were very proud to be Salvadoran because they had a World Cup Champion. It was something really fabulous and after all that, I was welcomed in the President’s house where the President of my country publicly congratulated me and gave me recognition for winning the World Cup Final. This has been a wonderful experience.
My expectations for 2008 are several, but have nothing to do with a baby; they are only related to my sports career and family. I hope to build my own style house, on some land in a very cool neighborhood in the mountains near the city. I also want to have very good results in all the tournaments I will compete in, especially in the Meteksan Archery World Cup 2008. I hope to win the World Cup trophy again!
Jorge Jimenez
My name is Jorge Alberto Jiménez Romero. I was born in San Salvador City, El Salvador on September 30, 1967; I’m 40 years old. I have been practicing Archery in the compound bow division since January 1996. I have been married since 1994 and have two sons, one of them is 12 and the other 8 years old. I studied Industrial Engineering in the “Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador” (El Salvador’s Technical University). My hobbies are sport hunting, listening to music and going out with my family to the beach or mountains.
The year 2007 has been the best of my career! The previous year I was happy with my 3rd place at the World Cup Final. In 2007, I was fortunate to win the World Cup Final in Dubai but I also shot well all year long. I qualified with two first places and a second place in the World Cup stages. During the toughest and crucial moments of this period and mainly in Dubai, I always tried to focus to avoid missing any shot, and when I lost concentration or nerves betrayed me, I begged God with all my strength to help me, and then I focused and concentrated again with more power to shoot the best scores I could. In that way, I was able to overcome many difficulties in many critical moments and I think that at the end, everything went very well.
My best memories about the Dubai Final are: the excellent hotel, the impressive modern architecture of the city, the wonderful beaches, the outstanding organization and the semi-finals and finals stage assembly—a shooting platform constructed over the water—and the great emotion and joy of winning this World Cup gold match for my country.
On my return to El Salvador, I was received with an exiting and amazing welcome! My country’s highest sports authorities came to the airport to wait for my arrival and, from the time the airplane doors opened they were there, ready to welcome me. They took me immediately, without passing through customs, to the VIP area where I found my parents, my whole family, a lot of TV, radio and newspaper journalists, many members of my Archery Federation, and a mass of people all there to greet me. There was a cheerleading squad outside the airport. I was driven in a limousine with police escort, followed by a parade of several vehicles, during the whole route to the city. There were many people with banners screaming and greeting me as I passed next to them. I was received like a National Hero and people were telling me that they were very proud to be Salvadoran because they had a World Cup Champion. It was something really fabulous and after all that, I was welcomed in the President’s house where the President of my country publicly congratulated me and gave me recognition for winning the World Cup Final. This has been a wonderful experience.
My expectations for 2008 are several, but have nothing to do with a baby; they are only related to my sports career and family. I hope to build my own style house, on some land in a very cool neighborhood in the mountains near the city. I also want to have very good results in all the tournaments I will compete in, especially in the Meteksan Archery World Cup 2008. I hope to win the World Cup trophy again!
Jorge Jimenez
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