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Interesting Facts About Olympic Nations – Mexico

This country sent 209 athletes to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. The Mexican team had athletes competing in : athletics (12), boxing (8), Wrestling (11), judo (3), weightlifting (3), gymnastics (15), cycling (8), shooting (12), archery (9), fencing (6), equestrian (12), modern pentathlon (4), swimming (38), soccer (19), field hockey (18), rowing (12), kayak (10) and sailing (9).

The I Central American & Caribbean Games were held in Mexico in 1926. The best Mexican sportspeople were Mariano Aguilar (athletics), Juan de Icaza (swimming),Manuel Guzman (track and field), Luis Scherer (swimming) and Alfonso Unda (tennis).

The Mexican water polo team finished 9th at the 1975 FINA World Cup in Cali, Colombia.This team won the gold medal at the VII Pan American Games.

Oscar De la Hoya has Mexican origin. This famous American boxer won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Spain.

Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza is the greatest Mexican sportswoman of all time.She has been a member of the Mexico national team since 1997.Ana was named Mexico’s Athlete of 2003.Certainly, she is an idol in the United Mexican States. For many reasons, she has contributed greatly to the development of sport in her country. Ana has won several international medals in the 1990s and the 2000s.

Top performances:

1998: Central American & Caribbean Games- 2nd 800m ,2nd 400m

1999: Pan American Games-1st 400m

2001:World Championship-3rd 400m

2002: Central American & Caribbean Games- 1st- 400m, 1st-4×400m relay

2003: World Championship-1st 400m; Pan American Games-1st 400m

2004: Olympic Games-2nd 400m

2005: World Championship-3rd 400m

2006: Central American & Caribbean Games- 1st- 400m, 1st-4×400m relay

2007: World Championship-4th 400, 8th 4×40m relay; Pan American Games-1st 400m, 2nd 4×400m relay.

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer.Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry.He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called “The Dictator and Alicia Alonso”. He is an expert on foreign affairs. Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latin America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Jos Gamarra (former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee ,1970- 1982), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). Alejandro said: “The person who I admire the most is Jos Gamarra . He devoted his professional and personal life to sport. Jos played an important role in the promotion of Olympism in Bolivia -it is one of the Third World`s poorest countries- and Latin America. His biography is interesting”.The sportspeople he most admire is Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman. “This African-American sportswoman is my idol…”

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Jessica Mousseau is a freelance writer and editor who enjoys reading and marketing herself in her spare time. She writes for many websites as well as magazines and is available for work-for-hire projects.

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