Catalina Diaz Vilchis
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Full name | Catalina Diaz Vilchis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Jiquipilco, Mexico | 30 April 1964||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic powerlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Polio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Catalina Diaz Vilchis (born 30 April 1964), a Mexican weightlifter, specialized in Powerlifting.[1][2] She won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro.[3] She also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Biography
[edit]Catalina started practicing weightlifting when she was 21 years old within the Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia in Mexico city. her disability was caused by Poliomyelitis. Catalina was inspired by Eduardo Nájera, Michael Jordan and Ana Gabriela Guevara.
Sport career
[edit]At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, held in Rio de Janeiro, she managed to lift 117 kg in the 86 kg category,[4] enough to earn the bronze medal by one kilogram.[5] While in Athens 2004, she won the bronze medal; she lift 110 kg in the 67.5 kg category.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athlete Bio". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ "Mexicanos en Rio 2016". historico.conade.gob.mx. Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ "DIAZ VILCHIS, Catalina". Rio 2016 Paralympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ "Peña Nieto felicita a Catalina Díaz por ganar medalla". Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ "¡Repite medalla: doce años después!". Sportspedia.com.mx. Sportspedia México. Retrieved 20 September 2016.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ "Se llenan de bronce". terra.com.mx (in Spanish). Terra. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in powerlifting
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Mexico
- Powerlifters at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Powerlifters at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic powerlifters for Mexico
- Medalists at the 2011 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
- Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
- Deputies of the LXV Legislature of Mexico
- 21st-century Mexican women politicians