2008 Summer Olympics / Participant (Mexico)

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Mexico was represented at the Olympic Games for the 21st time byparticipating in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . The first participation was in 1900. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the diver Paola Espinosa . At the closing ceremony, the Mexican flag was carried by Espinosa's dubbing partner Tatiana Ortiz . Compared to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , the number of medals for Mexico fell from 4 to 3, but in 2004 the Mexican athletes were unable to win a gold medal - in Beijing, on the other hand, they were more successful with 2 gold medals.

Medals

Medal table

Medal table Mexico
space	sport				total
1	Taekwondo	2	-	-	2
2	Weightlifting	-	-	1	1
	Diving	-	-	1	1
total		2	-	1	3

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Guillermo Pérez	Taekwondo	Class under 58 kg men
Maria Espinoza	Taekwondo	Class over 67 kg women

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Damaris Gabriela Aguirre	Weightlifting	Women up to 75 kg
Paola Espinosa , Tatiana Ortiz	Diving	Synchronized jumping 10 m women

Participants by sport

badminton

• Deyanira Angulo

  Women's singles, failed in round 1 against the Egyptian Hadia Hosny

Archery

• Juan René Serrano

  Men, Serrano prevailed against Joseph Muaausa from Samoa, Daniel Morillo from Spain, Maksim Kunda from Belarus and Vic Wunderle from the United States before failing in the semifinals at the South Korean Park Kyung-mo . Serrano was unable to prevail in the battle for bronze against the Russian Bair Badjonow and achieved fourth place.

• Luis Eduardo Velez

  Men, Vélez reached 52nd place

• Mariana Avitia

  Women, Avitia, who was only 14 years old at the time of the Games, came 8th

• Aída Román

  Women, 13th place

Boxing

• Oscar Valdez

  Men, bantamweight

• Arturo Santos Reyes

  Men, featherweight

• Francisco Vargas

  Men, lightweight

fencing

• Angélica Larios

  Women, sabers singles

Weightlifting

• Luz Mercedes Acosta

  Women, class up to 63 kg

• Damaris Gabriela Aguirre

  Women, class up to 75 kg (bronze )

Judo

• Arturo Martinez Rivera

  Men, light heavyweight (up to 100 kg)

• Vanessa Martina Zambotti

  Women, heavyweight (over 78 kg)

canoe

Canoe race

Men
José Everardo Cristóbal	Single canoe 1000 m
José Everardo Cristóbal Dimas Camilo Cortes	Two-person canoe 500 m
	Two-person canoe 1000 m
Manuel Cortina	Single kayak 500 m
	Single kayak 1000 m

athletics

discipline	Men	Women
400 meter sprint		Gabriela Medina (23rd place)
4 × 400 m		Gabriela Medina , Zudikey Rodríguez , Nallely Vela Rascon , Ruth del Carmen Grajeda , Maria Teresa Rugerio , Karla Dueñas
1500 meter run	Juan Luis Barrios
5000 meter run	Juan Luis Barrios David Galván
10,000 meter run	David Galván Alejandro Suárez Juan Carlos Romero	Dulce María Rodríguez
marathon	Carlos Cordero Procopio Franco Francisco Bautista	Madaí Pérez (19th place) Patricia Rétiz Karina Pérez
20 km walk	Eder Sánchez David Mejia Hernandez
50 km walk	Horacio Nava Mario Iván Flores Jesus Sanchez
high jump	Gerardo Martínez	Romary Rifka
Pole vault	Giovanni Lanaro

Modern pentathlon

• Oscar Soto Carillo

  Men

• Karla Marlene Sanchez

  Women

Cycling

Street

Men
Moisés Aldape	Road racing
Women
Alessandra Giuseppina Grassi	Road racing

horse riding

athlete	discipline
Bernadette Pujals	dressage
Antonio Chedraui	Show jumping singles
Federico Fernández
Enrique González
Alberto Michán
Jose Chedraui Federico Fernández Enrique González Alberto Michán	Show jumping team

Wrestling

• Larry Langowski

  Men, freestyle class up to 120 kg (super heavyweight)

rowing

• Patrick Loliger

  Men, one

• Gabriela Huerta , Lila Perez

  Women, lightweight double sculls

shoot

• Roberto Jose Elias

  Men, air rifle 10 meters

• José Luis Sánchez

  Men, air rifle 10 meters

• Ariel Mauricio Flores

  Men, skeet

• Natalia Zamora

  Women, small caliber three-position fight 50 meters

swim

Men
Juan Jose Veloz	100 m butterfly
	200 m butterfly
Luis Ricardo Escobar	10 km marathon
Women
Charetzeni Susana Escobar	400 m freestyle
	800 m freestyle
	400 m layers
Adriana Marmolejo	100 m chest
	200 m chest
Fernanda Gonzalez	100 m back
	200 m back
Imelda Martinez Gomez	10 km marathon

sailing

• David Mier

  Men, windsurfing

• Demita Vega de Lille

  Women, windsurfing

• Tania Elias Calles

  Women, Laser Radial

Synchronized swimming

• Mariana Aneth Cifuentes , Blanca Isabel Delgado

  duet

Taekwondo

• Guillermo Pérez

  Men, class up to 58 kg: gold

• Idulio Islas

  Men, class up to 68 kg

• Maria Espinoza

  Women, class over 67 kg: gold

Table tennis

• Yadira Silva Llorente

  Women, singles

Triathlon

• Francisco Serrano Plowells

  Men

• Faviola Adriana Corona

  Women

do gymnastics

Gymnastics

• Maricela Cantu

  Women, all-around

volleyball

beach volleyball

Women
Bibiana Candelas	team
Mayra García

Diving

Men
Yahel Castillo	Jump 3 m
Rommel Pacheco	Diving 10 m
Germán Sánchez	Diving 10 m
Women
Jashia Luna	Jump 3 m
Laura Sánchez	Jump 3 m
Paola Espinosa	Diving 10 m
Tatiana Ortiz	Diving 10 m
Paola Espinosa Tatiana Ortiz	Synchronized jumping 10 m	bronze