Rosa Carolina Castro, Mexican athlete who participated in the discipline of Paralympic Games discus throw, got this Saturday a bronze medal in the F38 classification, so Mexico accumulated 22 medals at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
The Mexican athlete had a great closure when she made her best throw, which had 33.73 meters away, thus remaining only behind the Chinese Na Mi and Yingli Li, who took the gold and silver, respectively.
Carolina Castro came from less to more in the competition, because in her first shot, she reached only 25.22 meters, which had her far from the podium, but as she advanced she improved, taking third place from the Canadian Renee Danielle Foessel.
Mexico achieved the medal 13 bronze, with this won by Castro, and also has seven gold and two silver.
Rosa Carolina Castro is originally from Los Cabos, in Baja California Sur, and with his participation and that of taekwondoin Francisco Pedroza, the Mexican delegation concluded its participation in the Japanese capital.
Castro, with only 19 years old, has a promising future, because at his young age, he can boast of a Paralympic medal, which he obtained in his debut in this competition.
The athlete, who is known as Rosita, is affiliated with the Association of Athletes with Cerebral Palsy of Baja California Sur (Asedepace), becoming the first athlete from Los Cabos to participate in a Paralympic Games.
With this medal, Mexico was placed in the position 19 of the medal table of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, surpassing the mark of the previous edition, where they only achieved 15 medals.
For his part, the Mexican Francisco Alejandro Pedroza Luna He stayed one step away from the podium in Taekwondo classification K44 +75 kg of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, after losing the bronze medal match to the Russian Zainutdin Ataev by 18-4.
The first round was hotly contested and they tied 2-2. For the second inning, the Russian extended the lead by taking it 6-1. For the latter, Ataev’s superiority was clear, winning it 10-1.
Early Thursday morning, the swimmer Diego Lopez Diaz he won the final of the 50 freestyle, category S3, and obtained the gold medal with a record of 44.66 on the stopwatch. Second place went to Zou Liankang from China, and third place went to Denys Ostapchenko from Ukraine.
The man from Veracruz thus obtained his second personal medal, after hanging the bronze in the 50-meter back, and gave Mexico its sixth golden metal with which he tied the best gold record obtained by a national representative.
The Mexican performance in Tokyo 2020 has been worthy of the recognition of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who on different occasions has made mention of the various achievements by athletes and para-athletes during his usual morning lectures.
“When they return we will meet with them and with those who represented us in the Olympics, in Tokyo, those who obtained four bronze medals and the entire delegation, with their coaches, because we are going to recognize everyone once they finish. the paralympic games”, reported López Obrador.
Even during his Third Government Report, the president gave space to the Tokyo 2020 and announced “that all those in the delegation will be given economic incentives, including their coaches.”
These are the medals won by Mexican athletes:
Saturday September 4
Friday September 3
Wednesday September 1
Tuesday, August 31
Monday August 30
Saturday August 28
Wednesday August 25
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