Paris 2024 has left many people shouting at the screens in Mexico in the early hours of the morning, others cheering live while drinking an 8 euro ‘beer’ at the venues of the Olympic Games, sprinkled with the excitement of the Mexican divers and athletes who won medals or came very close (but took home the glory of being among the best in the world).
Daniela Gaxiola flew on her bicycle at 45 kilometers per hour in a gold medal final, Alexa Moreno in gymnastics routines, Alan Cleland on the waves, the divers Alejandra Orozco and Gabriela Agúndez ‘dreamed big’ from the 10-meter platform.
Mexican divers competed in the women’s platform 10 final. (Conade)
Although there have been no medals, there have been historic participations, such as the return to the Olympic Games of the Mexican artistic swimming team, to the rhythm of Queen, after a 28-year absence and after selling towels and swimsuits to finance their expenses.
“It was useful to sell underwear, it was very useful,” Nuria Diosdado, synchronized swimming captain, told TUDN, referring to Ana Guevara’s criticism and the controversy over the withdrawal of scholarships to aquatic athletes. “Beyond the profits to pay for many things for the equipment, it served to create a great army of people who supported us here,” she added.
The synchronized swimming team makes its debut at Paris 2024, with a technical routine to the rhythm of Queen. (Photo: Courtesy of COM).
Medal table: How is Mexico doing and how many medals does it have in Paris 2024?
At the moment, Mexico has four medals in the Olympic Games and a fifth is already secured:
Bronze: Women’s team archery.
Silver: women’s judo -63 kilograms.
Silver: Men’s synchronized diving on 3-meter platform.
Bronze: Men’s individual diving on 3-meter platform.
Gold or silver: the decision will be made on August 9 in the men’s 71 kg Olympic boxing final.
Mexico’s Alejandra Valencia (right) and Angela Ruiz (left) celebrate after winning the bronze medal in the women’s team archery at the Paris Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
Prior to the start of the sporting event, Ana Guevara, director of the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (Conade), announced that the Mexican delegation is seeking 9 medals in Paris 2024.
Days later, the former athlete who won silver in Athens 2004, told ESPN: “We are already minus four: gymnastics, diving, surfing… These are things that happen and we have to move forward and the team must respond.”
The Mexican delegation has the historic record of 9 medals at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, followed by the achievement of 8 medals won in London 2012.
Which country has the most medals in Paris 2024?
The United States and China have been vying for the lead in the Olympic medal table, followed by Australia, France and Great Britain in the top five.
Mexico is approximately halfway in a ranking that includes 80 countries, some like Peru are only 1.
Mexico’s Olympic medals: Who won a medal?
Angela Ruiz: bronze in women’s team archery.
Alejandra Valencia: bronze in women’s team archery.
Ana Vázquez: bronze in women’s team archery.
Prisca Awiti: female judo platform -63 kg.
Osmar Olvera is a multi-medalist:
Silver in synchronized diving from the 3-meter springboard.
Bronze in individual diving from the 3-meter springboard.
Juan Manuel Celaya: silver in synchronized diving (with Osmar Olvera) from the 3-meter springboard.
Marco Verde: silver or gold in men’s 71kg boxing.
Mexican archery athletes win bronze medals at Paris 2024. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
Prisca Awiti competed in the final of judo, category -63kg, and won the silver medal, the first in the history of Mexico in this sport. (AP)
Osmar Olvera and Juan Manuel Celaya won silver medals, Mexico’s third medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (Xinhua News Agency)
Osmar Olvera won silver in diving, the fourth in Mexico’s medal count. (Photos: EFE)
Marco Verde is a 22-year-old boxer who is seeking a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Photo: AP)
How much do Olympic medalists get paid in Mexico?
Ana Guevara has said that there is a prize pool of around 30 million pesos for Mexican athletes, depending on their achievement:
- 3 million pesos: gold medal
- 2 million pesos: silver medal
- 1 million pesos: bronze medal.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has spoken about the origin of the funds for Olympic athletes: “For the first time, the United States, the Department of Justice, is returning to us money that was confiscated from a politician from Coahuila. And that is the money that is going to be used to support the athletes.”
Under other governments, Mexican medalists already received bonuses for sporting achievements. During the López Obrador administration, these benefits were extended to the entire participating delegation and not just to those who won medals, as at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima or the Tokyo Olympic Games. The figure for Olympic athletes without medals in Paris 2024 has not been clarified.
In December, AMLO said there were about $18 million available from the Institute to Return to the People what was Stolen for high-level athletes and that those resources would be expanded this year.
Mexico’s delegation to Paris 2024 is made up of 109 athletes who will participate in 28 disciplines. (Photo art El Financiero)
How many Mexican athletes will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?
In this edition of the Olympic Games, 10,500 athletes from 206 countries are participating, among which there are a total of 109 Mexican athletes who paraded in the inauguration of Paris 2024 on July 26 and compete until the last moment, on August 11, in 45 disciplines.
Which Mexicans are going to the 2024 Olympic Games?
Martha Sandoval: 10 km / Open water
Paulo Strehlke: 10 km / Open water
José Luis Doctor: 20 km walk / Athletics
Ricardo Ortiz: 20 km walk / Athletics
Noel Ali Chama: 20 km walk / Athletics
Ever Palma: mixed relief / Athletics
Alegna González: 20 km walk and mixed relay / Athletics
Alejandra Ortega: 20 km walk / Athletics
Ilse Guerrero: 20 km walk / Athletics
Laura Galvan: 5000 m / Athletics
Alma Delia Cortes: 5000 m / Athletics
Citlali Cristian: marathon / Athletics
Margarita Hernandez: marathon / Athletics
Cecilia Tamayo: 100 and 200 m / Athletics
Paola Morán: 400 m / Athletics
Tonatiú Lopez: 800 m / Athletics
Edgar Rivera: high jump / Athletics
Erick Portillo: high jump / Athletics
Uziel Muñoz: shot put / Athletics
Diego del Real: hammer throw / Athletics
Luis Garrido: singles / badminton
Miguel Angel Martinez: 63.5 kg / Boxing
Marco Alonso Verde: 71 kg / Boxing
Citlalli Ortíz: 75 kg / Boxeo
Fatima Herrera: 50 g / Boxing
Karina Alanís: K2 500 / Speed canoeing
Beatriz Briones: K2 500 / Speed canoeing
Sofia Reinoso: K1 slalom / Canoeing slalom
Ricardo Peña / Track cycling
Daniela Gaxiola: individual sprint, keirin, team sprint / Track cycling
Jessica Salazar: Sprint Team / Track Cycling
Yuli Verdugo: individual sprint, keirin, team sprint / Track cycling
Victoria Velasco: everything / Ciclismo de pista
Marcela Prieto / Road cycling
Adair Zabdiel Gutierrez / Mountain biking
Erika Rodriguez / Mountain biking
Gabriela Agúndez: 10m platform and 10m synchronized / Diving
Alejandra Orozco: 10m platform and 10m synchronized / Diving
Aranza Vázquez: 3m springboard / Diving
Kevin Berlin: 10m platform and 10m synchronized / Diving
Randal Willars: 10m platform and 10m synchronized / Diving
Osmar Olvera: 3m springboard and synchronized springboard / Diving
Juan Celaya: synchronized trampoline / diving
Kevin Muñoz: 3m springboard / Diving
Alejandra Estudillo: 10 m platform / Diving
Jose Antonio Chedraui / Equestrian
Federico Fernandez / Equestrian
Nicolas Pizarro / Equestrian
Carlos Hank / Equestrian
Gibran Zea: sabre / fencing
Natalia Escalera: All around / Artistic Gymnastics
Alexa Moreno: All around / Artistic Gymnastics
Ahtziri Sandoval: All Around / Artistic Gymnastics
Dalia de Jesús Alcocer: All around / Rhythmic Gymnastics
Ana Sofia Flores: All around / Rhythmic Gymnastics
Julia Gutiérrez: All around / Rhythmic Gymnastics
Kimberly Salazar: All around / Rhythmic Gymnastics
Adirem Tejeda: All around / Rhythmic Gymnastics
Gaby Lopez / Golf
Maria Fassi / Golf
Carlos Ortiz / Golf
Abraham Ancer / Golf
Paulina Martínez: -52 kg / Judo
Prisca Guadalupe Awiti: -63 kg / Judo
Janeth Gomez: 59 kg / Weightlifting
Roman Bravo: Free 57 kg / Wrestling
Austin Gomez: Free 65 kg / Wrestling
Regina Alférez: team / artistic swimming
Luisa Rodriguez: team / artistic swimming
Jessica Sobrino: team / artistic swimming
Pamela Toscano: team / artistic swimming
Nuria Diosdado: team and duo / Artistic swimming
Johana Jiménez: team and duo / Artistic swimming
Maria Fernanda Arellano: team / artistic swimming
Luisa Samantha Jalib: team / Artistic swimming
Regina Alférez: team / artistic swimming
Jorge Iga: 100 and 200 m freestyle / Swimming
Gabriel Castaño: 50m Freestyle / Swimming
Miguel de Lara: 200m breaststroke / Swimming
Celia Pulido: 100 m backstroke / Swimming
Emiliano Hernandez / Pentathlon
Duilio Carrillo / Pentathlon
Mayan Oliver / Pentathlon
Mariana Arceo / Pentathlon
Miguel Carballo: LM2x / Rowing
Alexis Lopez: LM2x / Rowing
Kenia Lettuce: Single Sculls / Rowing
Alan Cleland / Surf
Carlos Sansores: +80 kg / Taekwondo
Daniela Souza: -49 kg / Taekwondo
Alejandra Zavala / Sport shooting
Edson Ramirez / Sport shooting
Gabriela Rodriguez / Sport shooting
Alejandra Zumaya / Sport shooting
Carlos Quezada / Sport shooting
Matias Grande: individual and team / Archery
Javier Rojas: individual and team / Archery
Bruno Wing: Individual and Team / Archery
Alejandra Valencia: individual and team / Archery
Ana Paula Vázquez: individual and team / Archery
Angela Ruiz: individual and team / Archery
Lizeth Rueda / Triathlon
Rosa Tapia / Triathlon
Aram Peñaflor / Triathlon
Crisanto Grajales / Triathlon
Marcos Madrid: Individual / Table Tennis
Arantxa Cossío: individual / Table tennis
Elena Oetling: ILCA 6 / Vela
Mariana Aguilar: iQFoil / Sailing
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