Who are Osmar Olvera and Juan Celaya? Mexican divers won silver | TUDN Ambassadors

Who are Osmar Olvera and Juan Celaya? Mexican divers won silver | TUDN Ambassadors

Born on June 5, 2004 in Mexico City, Osmar Olvera Ibarra, 20 years old, has proven to be one of the great figures of Mexican diving.

He began his sporting career in 2017 by competing in the 2017 International Swimming Federation Diving World Series held in Kazan, Russia, where he obtained fifth place in the men’s diving event.

She has won multiple medals, including the world championship in Doha, Qatar in 2024 on the one-meter springboard.

At the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, she won the 1-meter individual springboard, 3-meter individual springboard, and 3-meter synchronized springboard.

Her participation in Paris 2024 marks her second Olympic experience, having previously competed at Tokyo 2020 where she finished 14th in the individual 3m springboard.

Olvera already has an impressive international record that includes medals at the World Diving Series, World Championships, Pan American Games and the World Cup.

Juan Manuel Celaya Hernández is originally from Monterrey, Nuevo León, he was born on September 1, 1998, and is 25 years old.

As a child, his parents took him to the Ciudad Deportiva in Monterrey to learn the discipline of diving. His first international competition was the 2009 Calgary Junior Pan American Championship, where he won three gold medals.

Celaya began competing in synchronized diving with Olympic medalist Yahel Castillo. She shined at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, where she won gold in the 1-meter springboard and gold in the 3-meter synchronized diving, as well as silver in the 3-meter springboard.

In 2020, together with him, he won the National Sports Award of his country in 2020.

Celaya has managed to remove the thorn from her participation in Tokyo 2020, where she finished in fourth position in the 3-meter synchronized springboard.

In Paris 2024, together with Olvera, Celaya reached the Olympic podium for the first time, consolidating his place among the best divers in the world and his place in the Mexican Olympus.

In this way, Mexico has three ideas for Paris 2024: the bronze in women’s team archery, the silver in judo by Prisca Awiti and now the Argentine medal obtained thanks to Osmar Olvera and Juan Celaya.

This is the first medal in the history of Mexico in the synchronized trampoline event and the twelfth medal for the men’s diving category.

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