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Mexico at the Olympics

Mexico at the Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Mexico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900 and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since 1924. Mexico has also participated in several Winter Olympic Games since 1928, though has not yet won any medals in the Winter Olympics.

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Mexican athletes have won a total of 73 medals, with diving as the top medal-producing sport.

The National Olympic Committee for Mexico is the Mexican Olympic Committee and was created in 1923.

Hosted Games

Mexico was the first Latin American nation to host the Olympic Games on one occasion.

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Medals

See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table

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List of medalists

Enriqueta Basilio lighting the cauldron at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics Opening Ceremony, she was the first woman to do so.
Taekwondo practitioner María Espinoza has won a complete set of medals at the Olympics for Mexico.

Summer Olympics

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Multiple Mexican Olympic medalists

Diver Joaquín Capilla won four olympic medals representing Mexico. The most of any Mexican Olympian.

Joaquín Capilla is the Mexican athlete with the most medals, four, and the first Mexican athlete to obtain medals in three consecutive games, while Humberto Mariles is the only double Olympic champion, also the Mexican athlete with the most medals at a single Olympic games, with three in 1948, and got Mexico's first gold medal.

In 2016, María Espinoza became the first Mexican female athlete to win a medal in three consecutive games.

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See also

References

    • "Mexico". International Olympic Committee.
    • "Mexico". Olympedia.com.
    • "Olympic Analytics/MEX". olympanalyt.com.
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