Olympic history of Mexico

MEX

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Mexico , whose NOK , the Comité Olímpico Mexicano , was founded in 1923 andrecognizedby the IOC in the same year, has participated in all Summer Olympic Games since 1924. As early as 1900 a delegation of Mexican athletes was sent to the Paris Games. Mexico also took part in various winter games, the first time in 1928. Young athletes took part in the 2010 and 2014 Summer Youth Games and the 2012 and 2016 Winter Youth Games.

General

Mexico was unsuccessful in the first participations between the world wars. From 1932, however, Mexican participants were able to win at least one medal at every summer game. Most medals were won in diving (14), most Olympic victories (3) in athletics.

Mexico's first Olympians in 1900 were the Escandón brothers (Eustaquio, Manuel and Pablo), who formed the Mexican polo team. They were also Mexico's first medalists, they won bronze. The country's first individual athletes on July 6, 1924 were the athletes Manuel Aguilar in the 100-meter run, Juan Escutia in the 800-meter run and Pedro Curiel in the 10,000-meter run. The first woman in Mexico to compete in the Olympic Games was the athlete María Uribe in the javelin on July 31, 1932.

The first individual athletes with a medal were the boxer Francisco Cabañas, who won silver in the flyweight in 1932, and the shooter Gustavo Huet, who won silver in the prone position with the small-bore rifle. The first Olympic champion in 1948 was the show jumper Humberto Mariles Cortés , who also won gold in the team competition and thus became Mexico's first double Olympic champion. The first woman in Mexico to win a medal was the fencer Pilar Roldán with bronze in foil fencing in 1968 . The first Mexican Olympic champion is weightlifter Soraya Jiménez Mendivil , who won the lightweight in 2000. The most successful participant in the number of medals is the water diver Joaquín Capilla . Between 1948 and 1956 he won four medals, one gold, one silver and two bronze medals.

The members of the four / five-man bobsleigh in Mexico were Mexico's first winter athletes at the Winter Olympics on February 11, 1928. The first individual athlete in Mexico at the Winter Games was the ski racer Hubertus von Hohenlohe in 1984 . The country's first female winter athlete was figure skater Diana Encinas in 1988.

The largest Olympic team in Mexico came in 1968 with 275 participants at the domestic summer games in Mexico City. The largest winter sports team in 1992 in Albertville comprised 20 participants.

Applications for hosting the Olympic Games

Applications

The Mexican capital Mexico City applied three times to host the Summer Olympic Games. When applying for the 16th Summer Olympics in 1956, you lost the 43rd IOC session in Rome in the second ballot. Even in the first ballot, the application to host the 17th Summer Olympics in 1960 at the 50th IOC session in Paris failed . The application to host the 19th Summer Olympics in 1968 was then successful. Mexico City prevailed against Detroit , Lyon and Buenos Aires in the first ballot at the 60th IOC session in Baden-Baden .

Alignment

Enriqueta Basilio lit the Olympic flame in 1968

The 19th Summer Olympics took place in Mexico City from October 12 to 27, 1968, and for the first time in a country in Latin America . The sailing competitions were held in Acapulco . Football matches were also held in León , Guadalajara and Puebla . 5516 athletes, including 781 women, from 112 countries competed in 20 sports. The games were opened by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz during the opening ceremony at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . The Olympic flame was lit by the athlete Enriqueta Basilio, the first woman in Olympic history. The athlete Pablo Garrido took the Olympic oath .

The Mexican team took 15th place in the medal table. The athletes each won three gold, silver and bronze medals. To date, this is the smallest medal haul of a host team at the Summer Olympics.

IOC member

Former marksman Olegario Vázquez Raña is Mexico's only IOC member. The four-time Olympic participant has been president of the World Shooting Association ISSF since 1980 and was elected an IOC member in 1995. He has been an honorary member since 2016.

Overview of the participations

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer E = opening ceremony, S = closing ceremony	Medals
	total	m	w					total	rank
1896	not participated
1900	3	3	0				1	1	15th
1904-1920	not participated
1924	15th	15th	0	Alfredo Cuellar
1928	29	29	0	Jesus Aguirre
1932	71	69	2	Eugenia Escudero		2		2	21st
1936	32	32	0	Tirso Hernández			3	3	28
1948	88	81	7th	Francisco Bustamente	2	1	2	5	17th
1952	64	61	3	Joaquín Capilla		1		1	34
1956	24	21st	3	Joaquín Capilla	1		1		23
1960	69	63	6th	Pilar Roldan			1	1	41
1964	94	90	4th	Fidel Negrete			1	1	35
1968	275	233	42	David Bárcena	3	3	3	9	15th
1972	174	152	22nd	Felipe Muñoz		1		1	33
1976	97	92	5	Teresa Díaz	1		1	2	25th
1980	45	36	9	Carlos Girón		1	3	4th	29
1984	99	77	22nd	Ivar Sisniega	2	3	1	6th	17th
1988	83	66	17th	Ernesto Canto			2	2	44
1992	102	76	26th	Jesus Mena		1		1	49
1996	98	70	28	Nancy Contreras			1	1	71
2000	78	52	26th	Fernando Platas	1	2	3	6th	40
2004	109	59	50	Fernando Platas		3	1	4th	59
2008	83	43	40	E: Paola Espinosa S: Tatiana Ortiz	2		1	3	36
2012	99	62	37	E / S: María Espinoza	1	3	3	7th	39
2016	124	80	44	E: Daniela Campuzano S: María Espinoza		3	2	5	61

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	Medals
	total	m	w					total	rank
1924	not participated
1928	5	5	0
1932-1980	not participated
1984	1	1	0
1988	11	10	1	Riccardo Olavarrieta
1992	20th	16	4th	Roberto Alvárez
1994	1	1	0	Hubertus of Hohenlohe
1998	not participated
2002	3	3	0	Roberto Tamés
2006	not participated
2010	1	1	0	Hubertus of Hohenlohe
2014	1	1	0	Hubertus of Hohenlohe
2018	4th	3	1	German Madrazo

Youth Summer Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	Medals
	total	m	w		rank				total
2010	42	23	19th	Iván García		1	5	6th	66
2014	78	31	47			5	6th	11	54

Youth Winter Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	Medals
	total	m	w					total
2012	1	1	0	Joshua Montiel
2016	2	1	1

Medal table

Olympic games

				total	rank
Olympic Summer Games	13	24	31	68	41
winter Olympics	0	0	0	0	-
total	13	24	31	68	43

Youth Olympic Games

				total	rank
Youth Olympic Summer Games	0	6th	11	17th	72
Youth Olympic Winter Games	0	0	0	0	-
total	11	4th	3	18th	76

History of participation

Summer games

badminton

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The first use of a Mexican badminton player took place in Beijing in 2008. The previous participations were unsuccessful.

basketball

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The first Mexican basketball team competed in the 1936 Olympic tournament. The team qualified for the quarter-finals, in which Italy was beaten. In the semifinals, Mexico lost to the USA with 10:25. The team won the bronze medal match against Poland 26:12.

In 1948 Mexico was able to move into the quarter-finals after four wins in four preliminary round matches. They won against South Korea with 43:32. In the semi-finals they met the USA again. Another defeat followed, this time a 40:71. The bronze match against Brazil was also lost with 47:52.

1952 in Helsinki, the team managed only one victory in the preliminary round. This put the team in ninth place in the final accounts. It was not until 1960 in Rome that Mexico was able to qualify for an Olympic tournament again. And this time, too, it was only enough to win three preliminary rounds. In the placement group Mexico managed two wins in one defeat. Mexico thus played for places 9 to 12 in the placement group. Another victory was not enough to get higher than 12th place. The same result was achieved in Tokyo in 1964. Mexico managed three wins in seven preliminary round matches, but this was only enough to place them in 9th to 12th place. Two defeats meant, in turn, 12th place for Mexico.

The 1968 tournament was more successful. Five wins in seven preliminary round games brought Mexico to third place in the group. This qualified them for the placement round for places 5 to 8. Two victories over Spain and Poland meant fifth place for the team. The next participation took place only in 1976. There was only one win in five preliminary round matches. In the placement round for places 9 to 12, Mexico progressed without a fight in the first game, as the drawn Egypt did not take part due to the boycott of the African countries. A loss to Puerto Rico meant Mexico's tenth place. This was the last Olympic basketball tournament with Mexican participation so far.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
National team of men	1936 Berlin	Men's tournament	first medal win

Beach volleyball

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The Olympic debut in beach volleyball took place in 1996. At least one Mexican duo was represented in all of the following tournaments, but all participations were unsuccessful.

Archery

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The first Mexican archers competed in Munich in 1972. Francisca de Gutiérrez reached 10th place in the women's singles. It was not until 1984 that Mexicans took part in the tournament again. Aurora Bretón finished ninth. It was not until 2008 in Beijing that there was success. For men was Juan René Serrano Fourth, in the women's Mariana Avitia eighth.

The first medal wins followed in London in 2012. In the women’s category , Aída Román won silver and her teammate Mariana Avitia won bronze. In the team competition, the Mexican men failed in the semi-finals against the eventual Olympic champion Italy. The match for the bronze medal was also lost against South Korea. The women were eliminated in the quarter-finals against Japan.

In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Alejandra Valencia lost in the semifinals against the German Lisa Unruh . In the match for bronze, she lost to the defending champion of London Ki Bo-bae.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Aída Román	2012 London	Women singles	first medal win

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Mariana Avitia	2012 London	Women singles

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  Juan René Serrano

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  Award ceremony in the women's singles 2012: Aída Román (silver) on the left, Mariana Avitia (bronze) on the right. In the middle, the Olympic champion Ki Bo-bae from South Korea

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  The Mexican men's team (red) in the quarter-finals against France (from left to right): Luis Álvarez , Juan René Serrano, Eduardo Vélez

Boxing

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The first Mexican boxers entered the ring in Amsterdam in 1928. Francisco Cabañas won the first Mexican boxing medal in Los Angeles in 1932 with a silver flyweight. Fidel Ortíz won bronze in the bantamweight division in Berlin in 1936.

The next medal was won 28 years later. Juan Fabila won bronze in the bantamweight division. The most successful participation took place in 1968 at the summer games in their own country. Ricardo Delgado was Olympic champion in flyweight, Antonio Roldán in featherweight. There were also bronze medals by Agustín Zaragoza in the middleweight division and Joaquín Rocha in the heavyweight division. In 1972 Alfonso Zamora won silver in bantamweight, in 1976 Juan Paredes won bronze in featherweight.

The bantamweight Héctor López won silver in 1984 in Los Angeles, Mariano González in 1988 bronze in the flyweight. After two unsuccessful participations by Mexican boxers, Cristián Bejarano won bronze in the lightweight in Sydney in 2000. It would take 16 years to win the next medal. In 2016 in Los Angeles, Misael Rodríguez won bronze in the middleweight division.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Ricardo Delgado	1968 Mexico City	Flyweight	first Olympic victory together with Roldán
Antonio Roldan	1968 Mexico City	Featherweight	first Olympic victory together with Delgado

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Francisco Cabañas	1932 Los Angeles	Flyweight	Mexico's first ever medal win together with the shooter Gustavo Huet
Alfonso Zamora	1972 Munich	Bantamweight
Héctor López	1984 Los Angeles	Bantamweight

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Fidel Ortíz	1936 Berlin	Bantamweight
Juan Fabila	1964 Tokyo	Bantamweight
Agustín Zaragoza	1968 Mexico City	medium weight
Joaquín Rocha	1968 Mexico City	Heavyweight
Juan Paredes	1976 Montreal	Featherweight
Mariano González	1988 Seoul	Flyweight
Cristián Bejarano	2000 Sydney	lightweight
Misael Rodríguez	2016 Rio de Janeiro	medium weight

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  Misael Rodríguez, bronze 2016

fencing

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Mexican fencers first competed in Amsterdam in 1928. In 1948 in London the saber fencer reached 8th place. Pilar Roldán took 7th place in foil fencing in 1960. In 1964 in Tokyo she won the silver medal and was the first Mexican athlete to win a medal at the Olympic Games. In the following years Mexican fencers were unsuccessful in all fencing genres.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Pilar Roldan	1964 Tokyo	foil	first medal win

Soccer

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The first participation of a Mexican team in the Olympic football tournament took place in 1928. In the very first game of the knockout system , the team lost 7-1 to Spain. In 1948 they lost in the first round to South Korea 3: 5. In 1964 the tournament was held in the preliminary round in a group system. Mexico played a draw once and lost to Romania and Germany (0-2) and were eliminated.

In 1968 at the summer games in their own country, the team reached the quarter-finals against Spain with two wins in three preliminary round games, where they won 2-0. In the semi-finals they lost to Bulgaria 2: 3. The bronze match against Japan was lost 2-0. Also in 1972 you could qualify for the quarterfinals with two wins in three preliminary round matches. The quarter-finals were played in two groups. Mexico and the Federal Republic of Germany parted 1: 1. Then Mexico lost 7-0 to the GDR and 2-0 to Hungary and were eliminated. 1976 was already over after the preliminary round. Two draws against Israel and Guatemala were too few as they lost to France.

The next participation took place in 1992. There was a draw in all three preliminary round matches, but they were eliminated due to the worse goal difference compared to Australia. After the preliminary round in 1996, Mexico had one win and two draws. In the quarter-finals, the Mexicans failed 2-0 to Nigeria. A win and a draw in 2004 were not enough for the men's team to advance. The women progressed despite only one draw with China and a 2-0 defeat against Germany. In the quarterfinals they were defeated by the Brazilians 5-0.

In 2012 the men's team became Olympic champions. After two wins and a draw in the preliminary round, they faced Senegal's team in the quarterfinals. Mexico won 4-2 after extra time. In the semifinals, Japan was defeated 3-1. Mexico won the final against Brazil 2-1. In 2016, the team was eliminated after the preliminary round. There was a 2-2 win against Germany, followed by a 5-1 win against Fiji. In the decisive game against South Korea, the Mexicans lost 1-0.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
U-23 national soccer team	2012 London	Men's tournament	first medal and Olympic victory

Weightlifting

1	-	-

The first Mexican weightlifters started in 1948. The weightlifters remained unsuccessful until 1984, after which no athlete could qualify. It was not until 2000 in Sydney, when women could also participate in this sport, that Mexico was represented again. This time there was the first medal win and at the same time Olympic victory. Soraya Jiménez Mendivil won the lightweight. She was the first woman in Mexico to become an Olympic champion. In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Bredni Roque failed in the lightweight with fourth place just because of a medal. In the women's middleweight division, Eva Gurrola finished fifth.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Soraya Jiménez Mendivil	2000 Sydney	lightweight	first medal and Olympic victory

golf

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In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, three golfers, one man and two women, competed in the Olympic tournament. All occupied places in midfield.

hockey

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In Mexico City, Mexican hockey players took part in the Olympic tournament for the first time. The team lost all of their seven preliminary round games, u. a. 0: 2 against the GDR and 1: 5 against the Federal Republic of Germany. Also in 1972 all games were lost, the team only scored a single goal in a 2-1 draw against Kenya. In the game for 15th place they lost 4-1 to Uganda.

Judo

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Mexican judoka have been taking part since the premiere of judo in Tokyo in 1964. In the following years all fighters were unsuccessful.

Canoeing

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The first canoeists in Mexico started at the local summer games in 1968. In the two-man Canadian over 1000 meters, Juan Martínez and Félix Altamirano reached fourth place. In 2000, José Ramón Ferrer and José Antonio Romero took sixth place on the same route in the two-man Canadian.

athletics

3	6th	2

The first Mexican athletes took part in Paris in 1924. In 1932 in Los Angeles, Juan Morales was seventh over 10,000 meters. The first medal could be won at the domestic summer games in 1968. José Pedraza won silver in walking over 20 kilometers. Juan Martínez finished fourth in both the 5000 and 10,000 meters.

Mexico celebrated its first Olympic victory in athletics in 1976 in Montreal. The walker Daniel Bautista won the 20 kilometer walk. In 1980 in Moscow, Rodolfo Gómez finished sixth in the marathon and Raúl González in walking over 20 kilometers. González won two medals in Los Angeles in 1984. First he won silver in the 20 kilometer competition behind his compatriot Ernesto Canto . Over 50 kilometers, he became Olympic champion himself, Canto took 10th place.

In 1988 in Seoul, Arturo Barrios came fifth over 10,000 meters, Carlos Mercenario came in seventh in walking over 20 kilometers. In Barcelona 1992 Mercenario won silver over 50 kilometers, his teammate Miguel Ángel Rodríguez finished eighth. Over 20 kilometers, Daniel García finished 7th. Barrios was able to repeat his placement from Seoul, and Germán Silva came 6th.

A walker won the next Mexican medal in Atlanta in 1996. Bernardo Segura won bronze over 20 kilometers. Over 50 kilometers, Ignacio Zamudio was sixth and Daniel García ninth. In the marathon, Germán Silva took 6th place and Benjamín Paredes 8th place. In 2000, Noé Hernández won silver over 20 kilometers of walking and Joel Sánchez bronze over 50 kilometers. Here Miguel Ángel Rodríguez finished seventh. In the women's 20-kilometer walk, María Guadalupe González finished fifth. Ana Guevara achieved the same placement in the 400-meter run. In 2004 Ana Guevara won the silver medal.

In Beijing 2008, Juan Luis Barrios achieved top placements with 7th place over 5000 meters and Horacio Nava with 6th place over 50 kilometers of walking. Barrios finished eighth again in 2012 in London. In walking over 20 kilometers, Eder Sánchez reached 6th place in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, María Guadalupe González then won silver over 20 kilometers of walking. Diego del Real was fourth in the hammer throw, Alberto Álvarez ninth in the triple jump.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Daniel Bautista	1976 Montreal	20 km walking	first Olympic victory
Ernesto Canto	1984 Los Angeles	20 km walking
Raúl González	1984 Los Angeles	50 km of walking

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
José Pedraza	1968 Mexico City	20 km walking	first medal win
Raúl González	1984 Los Angeles	20 km walking
Carlos Mercenario	1992 Barcelona	50 km of walking
Noé Hernández	1996 Atlanta	20 km walking
Ana Guevara	2000 Sydney	400 meters
María Guadalupe González	2016 Rio de Janeiro	20 km walking

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Bernardo Segura	1996 Atlanta	20 km walking
Joel Sánchez	1996 Atlanta	50 km of walking

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  Rodolfo Gomez

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  Maria Guadalupe González, silver 2016

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  Diego del Real

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  Alberto Álvarez

Modern pentathlon

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The first modern pentathletes from Mexico competed in Los Angeles in 1932. In the first participations, the athletes ranked in the middle and back places. In 1956 in Melbourne, the three participants made fifth place in the team classification. Only in 1984 in Los Angeles could this placement be repeated. In the individual ranking, Ivar Sisniega was 7th. In 1996 in Atlanta Sergio Salazar was 9th. Óscar Soto was eighth in Beijing in 2008. In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Ismael Hernández won the first bronze medal in Mexico in this sport.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Ismael Hernández	2016 Rio de Janeiro	singles	first medal win

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  Ismael Hernández runs for the bronze medal in 2016

polo

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Polo was played five times at the Summer Olympics: 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936. The 1900 tournament consisted of five teams, three of which were teams with players of different nationalities. Only the Mexican team, consisting of the three brothers Escandón and Guillermo Wright and a French team, the Compiègne Polo Club , consisted of players from one nation. The three mixed teams were Foxhunters Hurlingham and BLO Polo Club Rugby , both with players from the UK and US, and Bagatelle Polo Club de Paris with players from France and the UK. Mexico lost the game in the semifinals against BLO 8-0. Since there was no play-off between the defeated semi-finalists, the Mexican team, the first ever to take part in the Olympics in Mexico, was in third place. In 1900, the third-placed team did not receive any bronze medals; this was only introduced in 1904.

It was not until 1936 that a Mexican polo team took part again. A strong and a weak group were formed. Hungary and Germany were in the weak group, Mexico, Argentina and the United Kingdom in the strong. Mexico lost both games, 11:13 against the United Kingdom and 5:15 against Argentina. So you played against the better weak team for the bronze medal. Opponents were Hungary, the game ended with a 16-2 win for Mexico.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
National team	1900 Paris		first medal win
National team	1936 Berlin

Cycling

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In 1932 in Los Angeles, Mexican cyclists took part in the Olympic Games for the first time. A first front placement was achieved in Melbourne in 1956 Magdaleno Cano with 9th place in the road race. 1984 in Los Angeles there was the first medal win. José Manuel Youshimatz won bronze in the points race. In 1988 in Seoul, Youshimatz reached 9th place. Belem Guerrero was fifth in the points race in the women's race in Sydney in 2000, and she won silver in Athens in 2004. In Athens, Nancy Contreras finished 8th in the 500-meter time trial.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Belem Guerrero	2004 Athens	Points race

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
José Manuel Youshimatz	1984 Los Angeles	Points race	first medal win

horse riding

2	1	4th

With six riders, Mexico took part in an Olympic horse show for the first time in Los Angeles in 1932. In 1948 two gold, one silver and one bronze medal were won. In the individual show jumping competition, Humberto Mariles Cortés was Mexico's first Olympic champion at the Olympic Games. His teammate Rubén Uriza won silver. The Mexican team, consisting of Mariles Cortés, Uriza and Alberto Valdés Ramos, won the team competition. Mariles Cortés won bronze in the eventing team championship together with Raúl Campero and Joaquín Solano. In 1952, Mariles Cortés reached 6th place in the individual jumping competition.

Three bronze medals were won in Moscow in 1980. Joaquín Pérez won the medal in the individual competition in show jumping. The show jumping team and the versatility team also won bronze. In 1988 in Seoul, Jaime Azcárraga took 6th place in the individual competition in show jumping. Bernadette Pujals achieved 9th place in the individual dressage competition in 2008. In 2012 in London, show jumper Alberto Michán came fifth in the individual ranking.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Humberto Mariles Cortés on Arete	1948 London	Jump single	first Olympic victory
Humberto Mariles Cortés on Arete Rubén Uriza on Harvey Alberto Valdés Ramos on Chihuahua	1948 London	Jumping team competition

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Rubén Uriza on Harvey	1948 London	Jump single

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Humberto Meriles Cortés on Parral Raúl Campero on Tarahumara Joaquín Solano on Malinche	1948 London	Versatility team classification	first medal win
Joaquín Pérez on Alymony	1980 Moscow	Show jumping singles
Joaquín Pérez on Alymony Alberto Valdés Lacarra on Lady Mirka Gerardo Tazzer on Caribe Jesús Gómez on Massacre	1980 Moscow	Show jumping team competition
Manuel Mendívil on Remember David Bárcena on Bombona José Luis Pérez on Quelite Fabián Vázquez on Cocaleco	1980 Moscow	Versatility team classification

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  Alberto Michán

Wrestling

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The first Mexican wrestlers competed in Los Angeles in 1932. Initially there were no successes. It was not until 1980 that the light flyweight Alfredo Olvera was able to draw attention to himself in the Greco-Roman style with 6th place. Flyweight Daniel Aceves won silver in the Greco-Roman style in 1984.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Daniel Aceves	1984 Los Angeles	Flyweight, Greco-Roman

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  Daniel Aceves, bronze 1984, in 2015

rowing

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Rowing was first on the program for Mexico in 1956 in Melbourne. A final participation was reached in 1992 in Barcelona. Joaquín Gómez was seventh in the single.

shoot

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Mexico's first shooters took part in Los Angeles in 1932. Gustavo Huet won the silver medal with the small bore rifle in the prone position. Together with boxer Francisco Cabañas' silver medal, it was Mexico's first ever medal win at the Olympic Games. Arturo Villanueva took fourth place with the rapid fire pistol, his teammates Arnulfo Hernández and Gustavo Salinas shared seventh place. In Berlin 1936 Gustavo Huet reached seventh place.

In 1968 in Mexico City, José González took 5th place in the three-position battle with the small bore rifle. With the air pistol, Alejandra Zavala reached fourth place in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Gustavo Huet	1932 Los Angeles	Small caliber rifle lying	first ever medal win in Mexico together with boxer Francisco Cabañas

swim

1	-	1

Mexican athletes first competed in swimming in Los Angeles in 1932. Clemente Mejía achieved fourth place over 100 meters back in 1936 in Berlin. Eulalio Ríos swam over 200 meters dolphin in Melbourne in 1956 in 6th place.

Two medals could be won in 1968 at the domestic summer games in Mexico City. The first medal and at the same time the first Olympic victory for a Mexican in swimming was achieved by Felipe Muñoz over 200 meters chest. The only 14-year-old María Teresa Ramírez won bronze in the 800 meter freestyle with her teammate Laura Vaca in 8th place. Ramírez took 6th place over the 400 meter course, Vaca again 8th place in the 400 meter medley. There were two finalists over 1500 Meter freestyle for men. Guillerimo Echevarría finished sixth, Juan Alanís seventh. Rafael Hernández Rojas finished eighth in the 400 meter medley.

In 1972 in Munich, Felipe Muñoz was fifth over 200 meters chest. Guillermo García reached 8th place in the 1500 meter freestyle. In 1980 in Moscow, the women's 100-meter freestyle relay was sixth.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Felipe Muñoz	1968 Mexico City	200 meters chest	first Olympic victory and medal win

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
María Teresa Ramírez	1968 Mexico City	800 meters freestyle

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  María Teresa Ramírez, bronze 1968

sailing

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The first sailing regatta with Mexican participation took place in 1960. The participants remained unsuccessful in the following period.

Taekwondo

2	2	3

At the Olympic premiere of the sport in Sydney in 2000, a Mexican Taekwondoin won a medal. Víctor Estrada won the bronze medal in the welterweight division. 2004 in Athens followed a silver medal by Óscar Salazar in the flyweight division. His sister Iridia Salazar won bronze at featherweight. In Beijing 2008, Guillermo Pérez won the first Mexican Olympic victory in the flyweight sport. Three days later, María Espinoza also won the heavyweight division. María Espinoza won bronze in London in 2012 and silver in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. In Rio, Carlos Navarro and Itzel Manjarrez each finished 5th.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Guillermo Pérez	2008 Beijing	Flyweight	first Olympic victory
Maria Espinoza	2008 Beijing	Heavyweight

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Óscar Salazar	2004 Athens	Flyweight
Maria Espinoza	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Heavyweight

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Victor Estrada	2000 Sydney	Welterweight	first medal win
Iridia Salazar	2004 Athens	Featherweight
Maria Espinoza	2012 London	Heavyweight

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  Guillermo Pérez, 2008 Olympic champion

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  María Espinoza, Olympic champion 2008, bronze 2012

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  Itzel Manjarrez

tennis

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The first Mexican tennis players competed in Paris in 1924. Leonardo Lavalle achieved the best result in 1992 in Barcelona when he reached the quarter-finals.

Table tennis

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A Mexican table tennis player competed for the first time in Atlanta in 1996. It was just as unsuccessful as the participants in 2008, 2012 and 2016.

Triathlon

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The first triathletes in Mexico started in 2004 in Athens. The best result was achieved in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro by Claudia Rivas in 9th place.

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  Claudia Rivas

do gymnastics

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Mexican gymnasts first competed in Los Angeles in 1932. Francisco Álvarez took fourth place in the discipline with Indian clubs, which was only carried out once. It was not until 2000 in Sydney that a Mexican woman made it into a device final. Denisse López was seventh in the horse jump. Daniel Corral reached number 5 on bars in London in 2012.

volleyball

-	-	-

In 1968 at the local summer games both men and women took part in an Olympic volleyball tournament for the first time. The men lost all of their nine preliminary round matches, including 0: 3 against the GDR, and finished in tenth and last place. The women managed to win a game and finished seventh out of eight teams. It wasn't until 2016 in Rio de Janeiro that there was a men's team again. And in Rio they lost all their preliminary round matches and were eliminated as the last group.

Water polo

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A Mexican water polo team first took part in Helsinki in 1952. With 4:13 they lost to the Hungarians in the first qualifying round and were eliminated. The next tournament with Mexican participation took place at the domestic summer games in 1968. Mexico lost five out of seven preliminary round games, u. a. 4:12 against the GDR, but could also book a win and a draw. In the group they came in 6th. In the placement round they were defeated by the Federal Republic of Germany 3: 6 and were 11th.

In 1972, the team won only one of their five preliminary round matches and finished fifth in the group and was eliminated. Also in the preliminary round in 1976 all games were lost. In the placement group for places 7 to 12, Mexico achieved three draws and one victory. This put the team in 10th place.

Diving

1	7th	6th

The first Mexican diver took part in Amsterdam in 1928. In 1932 in Los Angeles, Carlos Curiel was fifth and Jesús Flores sixth in high diving. In 1948 in London, Joaquín Capilla jumped from the tower to the bronze medal. He was fourth in jumping. 1952 in Helsinki he was again fourth in jumping. In diving he won silver this time. His brother Alberto Capilla was fifth, Rodolfo Perea sixth.

1956 in Melbourne Joaquín Capilla was able to get bronze in jumping. In diving he became the first Mexican Olympic champion in this sport. In Rome in 1960 Juan Botella won bronze in jumping, Álvaro Gaxiola came fourth. Roberto Madrigal was fourth in diving. He repeated this placement in Tokyo in 1964.

At the domestic summer games in Mexico City in 1968, Álvaro Gaxiola won silver in high diving. José Robinson was fifth, Luis Niño seventh. Niño was also fourth in jumping. Carlos Girón reached 8th place in diving in Munich in 1972, 8th place in tower diving and 7th place in artificial diving in Montreal in 1976. In 1980 in Moscow he won silver in jumping, from the tower he was fourth. Elsa Tenorio was sixth in diving. In 1984 in Los Angeles, she reached 6th place in art and 7th place in high diving ahead of her teammate Guadalupe Canseco.

Jesús Mena jumped from the tower in Seoul in 1988 to win the bronze medal . In jumping he reached 7th place, Jorge Mondragón 6th place. Mondragón repeated this placement in 1992 in Barcelona. María José Alcalá from the tower also achieved 6th place. In 1996 Fernando Platas was eighth in the art and seventh in diving. In 2000 in Sydney he was able to win silver in jumping. With his partner Eduardo Rueda he finished fifth in synchronized jumping. Jashia Luna and María José Alcalá finished sixth in synchronized jumping.

Three fifth places were the yield of Mexican water divers in Athens in 2004. Fernando Platas achieved this placement in jumping. Laura Sánchez and Paola Espinosa in synchronized jumping and Paola Espinosa and Jashia Luna in synchronized diving. With Tatiana Ortiz , Paola Espinosa won bronze in synchronized diving in Beijing in 2008. In the individual competition, Espinosa took 4th place and Ortiz 5th place. Yahel Castillo was seventh in art, Rommel Pacheco eighth in diving.

In 2012, Mexican water divers won two silver medals each in synchronized high diving: Iván García and Germán Sánchez for the men and Paola Espinosa and Alejandra Orozco for the women. There was also a bronze medal by Laura Sánchez in jumping. In diving, Paola Espinosa took sixth place. Yahel Castillo also finished sixth in artificial diving. Iván García finished seventh in diving and Yahel Castillo and Julián Sánchez in synchronized jumping.

In Rio de Janeiro 2016, Germán Sánchez won a silver medal again, this time in high diving. Rommel Pacheco was seventh in jumping. The synchronized divers were fifth, Rommel Pacheco and Jahir Ocampo in the art, Iván García and Germán Sánchez in the diving. In the women's category, Paola Espinosa was fourth from the tower. With her partner Alejandra Orozco, she took 6th place in synchronized diving.

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Joaquín Capilla	1956 Melbourne	Diving	first Olympic victory

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Joaquín Capilla	1952 Helsinki	Diving
Álvaro Gaxiola	1968 Mexico City	Diving
Carlos Girón	1980 Moscow	Jumping
Fernando Platas	2000 Sydney	Jumping
Iván García Germán Sánchez	2012 London	Synchronized diving
Paola Espinosa Alejandra Orozco	2012 London	Synchronized diving
Germán Sánchez	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Diving

Surname	Games	discipline	annotation
Joaquín Capilla	1948 London	Diving	first medal win
Joaquín Capilla	1956 Melbourne	Jumping
Juan Botella	1960 Rome	Jumping
Jesus Mena	1988 Seoul	Diving
Paola Espinosa Tatiana Ortiz	2008 Beijing	Synchronized diving
Laura Sánchez	2012 London	Jumping

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  Carlos Girón jumps to silver in 1980

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  Yahel Castillo

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  Germán Sánchez, silver 2012 and 2016

Winter games

Hubertus von Hohenlohe as standard bearer during the invasion of the nations in 2010

Mexico's first participation in the Winter Olympics took place in St. Moritz in 1928. Mexico was represented by a bobsleigh team to take part in the four-man bobsleigh (five-man bobsleighs were also allowed to compete).

It was only after 56 years that the next participation came. The only starter in Sarajevo in 1984 was ski racer Hubertus von Hohenlohe . A crew of eleven traveled to Calgary in 1988. Figure skating and cross-country skiing were added as sports. In 1992 in Albertville, the largest Mexican delegation with 20 participants came to the Winter Games. In 1994 in Lillehammer only Hubertus von Hohenlohe stood as a representative of Mexico.

After no participants were sent to Nagano in 1998, in 2002 Salt Lake City included two bobsleigh riders and a skeleton rider. In 2010 and 2014 it was again Hubertus von Hohenlohe who represented the Mexican colors. The ski racer, who also has Liechtenstein citizenship, competed in Sochi for the sixth time at the age of 55. This made him the oldest alpine ski racer to date to compete in the Winter Olympics. In 2018, a Mexican freestyle skier took part for the first time.

Youth games

Youth Summer Games

Iván García with his bronze medal 2010. 2012 he won silver in London

42 young athletes, 23 boys and 19 girls, took part in the first edition of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . The athletes won six medals, one silver and five bronze medals.

Silver and bronze were won in Taekwondo. The silver medal went to Briseida Acosta in the heavyweight division, bronze to Alejandro Valdés in the middleweight division. Other bronze medals went to the light heavyweight weightlifter Aremi Fuentes, the modern pentathlon Jorge Camacho, the canoeist Pedro Castañeda in the single-Canadian sprint and the water diver Iván García in the high diving , who also participated in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. The triathlete Adriana Barraza won another bronze medal with the mixed team. This medal is attributed to the medal balance of the mixed teams and does not appear in the medal table of Mexico.

The archer Mariana Avitia achieved further top placements in the individual. She took part in London in 2012 and won bronze there. In athletics, the walkers Jesús Vega achieved 7th place over 10 kilometers and Yanelli Caballero 5th place over 5 kilometers. In boxing, the lightweight Daniel Echeverría lost his battle for the bronze medal through disqualification. The shooter Erick Arzate finished 6th with the air rifle. In Taekwondo, fifth places were achieved by José Ramos in the heavyweight division, Monica Chavez in the middleweight division and Ana Pérez in the light heavyweight division. In the individual ranking, triathlete Adriana Barraza took 4th place. Weightlifter Moises Sotelo came in sixth in the heavyweight division, while wrestler Pedro Ramírez came fifth in the heavyweight division of the Greco-Roman style.

In 2014 in Nanjing , 78 Mexican athletes, 31 boys and 47 girls, took part. They won eleven medals, five silver and six bronze medals. Silver was won by Taekwondoin Rubén Nava in the middleweight division, the weightlifter Ana Lilia Durán in the light heavyweight division, the athletes Valeria Ortuño in walking over 5 kilometers and María Fernanda Orozco in the shot put and the water jumper Rodrigo Diego in jumping. Bronze went to the Taekwondoin Mitzi Carrillo in the lightweight, the athlete Noel Ali Chama in walking over 10 kilometers, the canoeist Victoria Morales in the single-Canadian sprint, the youth national team for girls in football, as well as to the diver Rodrigo Diego in the high diving and Alejandra Orozco in the High diving, which had already won silver in London in 2012.

Youth Winter Games

At the Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012. Mexico participated with a skeleton driver. In 2016 there was a boy in ski cross and snowboarding and a girl in alpine skiing.

Art competitions

In 1928 in Amsterdam, the painter Ángel Zárraga submitted 16 of his works. The works Le But dégagé , Portrait d'un Footballeur , Footballeuse brune , Footballeuse blonde , Heading , Footballeur en action , Joueur nègre , Plaquage , Une touche , Scène de rugby , Le Ballon , Athlètes , La Passe , Le Départ , Scène de rugby (another picture with the same title) and Une touche were not included in the ranking. In 1932 in Los Angeles his work Three Soccer Players , which like the picture Athlete Resting by José Clemente Orozco was not taken into account.

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  Ángel Zárragapla

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  Footballeuse blonde

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  Three Soccer Players

Participants by sport

Summer games

sport	year
	1900	1924	1928	1932	1936	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016
badminton																					1	1	1
basketball					11	14th	13		12	10	12		10
Beach volleyball																		2	4th	2	2	2	2
Archery												6th			2	4th	4th	3	2	3	4th	6th	4th
Boxing			4th	6th	4th	1	3		3	5	11	8th	3	4th	6th	6th	4th	8th	6th	5	3	2	6th
fencing			2	10	2	9	4th	3	8th	14th		6th			1	1				1	1	2	8th
Soccer			11			11				14th	17th	19th	16				16	14th		32		16	20th
Weightlifting						3	2	1	1	1	3	2	1	3	1				1	1	2	2	4th
hockey											17th	17th
Judo										3	3		1	2	4th	3	1	2	1	3	2	2	2
Canoeing											12	7th	4th		2		4th	6th	2		3	2	1
athletics		11	11	25th	3	5	2	1	5	5	26th	11	7th	7th	16	21st	24	15th	22nd	27	23	18th	20th
Modern pentathlon				3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3		2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2
polo	4th				4th
Cycling				3	5	4th	4th	4th	10	9	12	6th	6th		8th	5	5	9	2	3	2	2	4th
horse riding				6th		6th	4th			7th	9	8th	8th	8th	12	5	6th	4th	4th	4th	5	4th	1
Wrestling				2		4th	5	1	4th	4th	12	9	2	2	5	4th	2	7th			1	2	1
rowing								1	2	3	25th	9	1	1	3	2	3	2	5	3	3	2	2
shoot				5	5	9	4th	3	6th	5	11	10	6th	2	8th	3	1	1	1	1	4th	4th	2
swim				3	9	8th	4th	11	10	27	22nd	9	7th	7th	15th	13	10	12	9	8th	8th	11	5
sailing									2	11	11	6th	3		6th	4th	3	2	4th	3	3	3	3
Taekwondo																			3	3	3	4th	4th
tennis		2														5	4th	3	2				2
Table tennis																		1			1	1	2
Triathlon																				2	2	2
do gymnastics				3		5			1		12	7th	2	1	1	1	2		2	2	1	2	2
volleyball											24
Water polo							7th				11	11	11
Diving			1	5	1	5	5	3	4th	4th	6th	4th	5	6th	6th	3	8th	5	7th	5	7th	10	9

Winter games

sport	year
	1928	1984	1988	1992	1994	2002	2010	2014	2018
Bobsleigh	5		4th	7th		2
figure skating			2	2
Freestyle ski									1
skeleton								1
Alpine skiing		1	4th	10	1		1	1	2
Cross-country skiing			1	1					1

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
athletics	3	6th	2	11
Boxing	2	3	8th	13
Taekwondo	2	2	3	7th
horse riding	2	1	4th	7th
Diving	1	7th	6th	14th
Weightlifting	1	0	1	2
Archery	0	1	1	2
Cycling	0	1	1	2
fencing	0	1	0	1
shoot	0	1	0	1
Wrestling	0	1	0	1
polo	0	0	2	2
basketball	0	0	1	1
Modern pentathlon	0	0	1	1
total	13	24	31	68

See also

• List of Olympic medalists from Mexico
• Category: Olympian (Mexico)
• Official website of the Mexican NOK (span.)

Web links

• Mexico in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Mexico on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)