The Mexican delegation’s day ended on Friday that participates in the Paralympic Games Paris 2024after taekwondo player Juan Diego García climbed onto the podium with a bronze medal.
Garcia He beat the Japanese 5-3 Shunsuke Kudo, and with this he gave the fourth medal to the tricolor representative that participates in the competition that takes place in the Parisian capital.
The athlete He managed to overcome a defeat he suffered in the quarterfinals in the -70 kilogram category against the Uzbek Javokhir Alikulov, who in the repechage duel beat the Cuban 17-10 Michel Ernesto Suarez.
In the fight for third place, he beat the Japanese 5-3 Shunsuke to take the bronze medal and give the first medal to the taekwondo delegation led by the triple Olympic medalist Maria del Rosario Espinoza.
How many medals does Mexico have compared to the one obtained by Juan Diego García?
Mexico They have already won four medals during the summer competition. This Friday they also won bronze Rosa Maria Guerrero in the F55 discus throw test, in addition to Angel Camacho in the 100 meter freestyle S4 within para-swimming.
The first medal that the Mexican delegation won was the one obtained Haidee Viviana Aceves who won silver in para swimming in the 100-meter backstroke category – S2 women.
With this result, Mexico placed 27th in the medal table with one silver and three bronze medals on the second day of competition.
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China leads the ranking with a total of 24 medals, 11 of them gold, followed by Great Britain while Brazil is in third place.
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