Mariana Avitia

Mariana Avitia
nation	Mexico
birthday	September 18, 1993
place of birth	Monterrey , Nuevo León
size	164 cm
Weight	61 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	Archery
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 ×
last change: April 30, 2017

Mariana Avitia Martínez (born September 18, 1993 in Monterrey , Nuevo León ) is a Mexican archer .

Career

Mariana Avitia started her career as an archer in 2001 and made her international debut a year later.

Avitia first competed in the Olympic Games at the age of 14 during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . There she won the first two rounds in the individual competition and reached the quarter-finals by winning the round of 16 against Chatuna Narimanidze from Georgia, where she lost to the North Korean Kwon Un-sil and was eliminated.

Aída Román , Ki Bo-bae , Mariana Avitia (from left to right)

Four years later, Avitia started again at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . This time she made significant progress in the individual competition and reached the semifinals after four wins, where she lost 2: 6 to her teammate Aída Román , who later took silver, and thus came into the fight for third place. There she defeated the American Khatuna Lorig 6-2 and thus won the bronze medal. In the team competition, Avitia started for Mexico with Aída Román and Alejandra Valencia , but they were eliminated early due to a defeat in the quarter-finals with 209: 219 against the Japanese Kaori Kawanaka , Ren Hayakawa and Miki Kanie and thus finished fifth.

Web links

• Mariana Avitia in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Mariana Avitia in the World Archery Federation database
• Mariana Avitia in the olympic.org database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results archery, individual women, Olympic Games 2008 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
2. ↑ Results archery, individual women, Olympic Games 2012 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
3. ↑ Results archery, team women, Olympic Games 2012 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.