Iridia Salazar
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Iridia Salazar Blanco (born June 14, 1982) is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist.
Sports career
[edit]She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she received a bronze medal in the 57 kg class.[1] She plays soccer too in Club Casa Blanca Juriquilla
Salazar won a silver medal at the 2001 World Taekwondo Championships in Jeju, and also a silver medal at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships in Garmisch Partenkirchen. She carried the flag for her native country at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she won a gold medal.
Political career
[edit]In the 2009 mid-term election Salazar entered politics when she ran for Congress as the alternate of Alfonso Martínez Alcázar in Michoacán's eighth district. She represented the constituency in the Chamber of Deputies for the National Action Party (PAN) during the remainder of Martínez Alcázar's term after he resigned his seat on 12 August 2011.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Taekwondo" Archived 2008-08-18 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 22, 2008)
- ^ "Perfil: Dip. Iridia Salazar Blanco, LXI Legislatura". Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL). SEGOB. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
External links
[edit]- Iridia Salazar at TaekwondoData.com
- Iridia Salazar at Olympedia
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Mexican female taekwondo practitioners
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Olympic bronze medalists for Mexico
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Mexico
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
- National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico
- 21st-century Mexican women politicians
- Pan American Games medalists in taekwondo
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico
- 21st-century Mexican sportswomen
- Mexican Olympic medalist stubs
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- North American taekwondo biography stubs