Victor Estrada

Victor Estrada

Personal information

Nationality:

Mexico

Birthday:

October 28, 1971

Place of birth:

Heroica Matamoros

Size:

186 cm

Weight:

80 kg

Medals

Olympic games
bronze	Sydney 2000	up to 80 kg
World championships
silver	New York City 1993	up to 83 kg
Pan American Games
bronze	Havana 1991	up to 70 kg
gold	Mar del Plata 1995	up to 83 kg
gold	Winnipeg 1999	up to 80 kg
gold	Santo Domingo 2003	over 80 kg
Pan American Championships
gold	Colorado Springs 1992	up to 70 kg
gold	Heredia 1994	up to 80 kg
gold	Havana 1996	up to 80 kg
gold	Lima 1998	up to 80 kg
World Games
gold	The Hague 1993	up to 83 kg

Víctor Manuel Estrada Garibay (born October 28, 1971 in Heroica Matamoros ) is a former Mexican Taekwondoin who is now active in politics .

Career

Estrada won numerous titles in his career, particularly at the continental level. From 1992 to 1998 he was Pan American champion four times in a row, first in the class up to 70 kilograms, then three times in the higher class up to 80 kilograms. During this period he also won several medals at the Pan American Games . In 1991 he won bronze in Havana , in 1995 in Mar del Plata and 1999 in Winnipeg, he won the gold medal. Also in 2003 in Santo Domingo he won gold again.

He also won the competition in the class up to 83 kilograms at the World Games in The Hague in 1993 . In the same year he won the silver medal in the same weight class at the World Championships in New York City . After successfully qualifying, he took part in his first Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , where he won the bronze medal in the class up to 80 kilograms after a quarter-final defeat against the eventual Olympic champion Ángel Matos and three subsequent wins in the round of hope. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Estrada was also part of the Mexican delegation and came in fifth.

Estrada, a member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional , has been Presidente municipal of the Municipio Cuautitlán Izcalli since 2015 .

Web links

Víctor Estrada on the TaekwondoData .com website
Víctor Estrada in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Víctor Estrada gana presidencia municipal de Izcalli. In: zonaceronoticias.com.mx. June 13, 2015, Retrieved October 25, 2018 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Estrada, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Estrada Garibay, Víctor Manuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heroica Matamoros , Mexico

[1] Víctor Estrada gana presidencia municipal de Izcalli. In: zonaceronoticias.com.mx. June 13, 2015, Retrieved October 25, 2018 (Spanish).