Mexico at the Olympics

Mexico at the Olympic Games
Flag of Mexico IOC code  MEX NOC Comité Olímpico Mexicano Website www.com.org.mx (Spanish)
Olympic history
Summer Games
1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter Games
1924 1928 1932–1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

Mexico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900 and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since 1924. Mexico has also participated in several Winter Olympic Games since 1928, though has never medaled in the Winter Olympics.

Mexican athletes have won a total of 62 medals - with athletics, boxing and diving as the top medal-producing sports.

The National Olympic Committee for Mexico is the Comité Olímpico Mexicano and was created in 1923.

Hosted Games

Mexico was the first Latin American nation to host the Olympic Games. 48 years after, Brazil is scheduled to become the second Latin American country to host the event, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Games	Dates	Nations
1968 Summer Olympics	12 October - 27 October	112

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Numbers of medals won by Mexico at the summer Olympic games from 1896 to 2012.

   Host nation

Games	Athletes				Total	Rank
1896 Athens	Did not participate
1900 Paris	4	0	0	1	1	20
1904 St. Louis	Did not participate
1908 London
1912 Stockholm
1920 Antwerp
1924 Paris	13	0	0	0	0	N/A
1928 Amsterdam	30	0	0	0	0	N/A
1932 Los Angeles	73	0	2	0	2	21
1936 Berlin	32	0	0	3	3	28
1948 London	88	2	1	2	5	17
1952 Helsinki	64	0	1	0	1	34
1956 Melbourne	24	1	0	1	2	23
1960 Rome	69	0	0	1	1	41
1964 Tokyo	94	0	0	1	1	35
1968 Mexico City	275	3	3	3	9	15
1972 Munich	174	0	1	0	1	33
1976 Montreal	97	1	0	1	2	25
1980 Moscow	45	0	1	3	4	29
1984 Los Angeles	99	2	3	1	6	17
1988 Seoul	83	0	0	2	2	44
1992 Barcelona	102	0	1	0	1	49
1996 Atlanta	97	0	0	1	1	71
2000 Sydney	78	1	2	3	6	40
2004 Athens	109	0	3	1	4	59
2008 Beijing	85	2	0	1	3	36
2012 London	102	1	3	3	7	39
Total	1837	13	21	28	62	41

Medals by Winter Games

Games	Athletes				Total	Rank
1924 Chamonix	Did not participate
1928 St. Moritz	4	0	0	0	0	N/A
1932 Lake Placid	Did not participate
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1948 St. Moritz
1952 Oslo
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
1960 Squaw Valley
1964 Innsbruck
1968 Grenoble
1972 Sapporo
1976 Innsbruck
1980 Lake Placid
1984 Sarajevo	1	0	0	0	0	N/A
1988 Calgary	11	0	0	0	0	N/A
1992 Albertville	20	0	0	0	0	N/A
1994 Lillehammer	1	0	0	0	0	N/A
1998 Nagano	Did not participate
2002 Salt Lake City	3	0	0	0	0	N/A
2006 Turin	Did not participate
2010 Vancouver	1	0	0	0	0	N/A
2014 Sochi	1	0	0	0	0	N/A
Total	42	0	0	0	0	N/A

Medals by sport

Sport				Total	Rank
Athletics	3	5	2	10	41
Boxing	2	3	7	12	24
Equestrian	2	1	4	7	16
Taekwondo	2	1	3	6	5
Diving	1	6	6	13	11
Swimming	1	0	1	2	38
Football	1	0	0	1	19
Weightlifting	1	0	0	1	38
Archery	0	1	1	2	16
Cycling	0	1	1	2	35
Fencing	0	1	0	1	26
Shooting	0	1	0	1	52
Wrestling	0	1	0	1	46
Polo	0	0	2	2	5
Basketball	0	0	1	1	19
Total	13	21	28	62

• Sport rankings in italic still not updated with the 2012 combined totals.

List of medalists

Summer Olympics

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Bronze	Eustaquio de Escandón Manuel de Escandón Pablo de Escandón Guillermo Hayden Wright	1900 Paris	Polo	Men's competition
Silver	Francisco Cabañas	1932 Los Angeles	Boxing	Men's flyweight
Silver	Gustavo Huet	1932 Los Angeles	Shooting	Men's 50m rifle prone
Bronze	National team	1936 Berlin	Basketball	Men's competition
Bronze	Fidel Ortiz	1936 Berlin	Boxing	Men's bantamweight
Bronze	Juan Gracia Julio Mueller Antonio Nava Alberto Ramos	1936 Berlin	Polo	Men's competition
Gold	Humberto Mariles	1948 London	Equestrian	Jumping Individual
Gold	Rubén Uriza Humberto Mariles Alberto Valdés	1948 London	Equestrian	Jumping Team
Silver	Rubén Uriza	1948 London	Equestrian	Jumping Individual
Bronze	Joaquín Capilla	1948 London	Diving	Men's 10m platform
Bronze	Raúl Campero Humberto Mariles Joaquín Solano	1948 London	Equestrian	Three-Day Event Team
Silver	Joaquín Capilla	1952 Helsinki	Diving	Men's 10m platform
Gold	Joaquín Capilla	1956 Melbourne	Diving	Men's 10m platform
Bronze	Joaquín Capilla	1956 Melbourne	Diving	Men's 3m springboard
Bronze	Juan Botella	1960 Rome	Diving	Men's 3m springboard
Bronze	Juan Fabila	1964 Tokyo	Boxing	Men's bantamweight
Gold	Antonio Roldán	1968 Mexico City	Boxing	Men's featherweight
Gold	Ricardo Delgado	1968 Mexico City	Boxing	Men's flyweight
Gold	Felipe Muñoz	1968 Mexico City	Swimming	Men's 200m breaststroke
Silver	José Pedraza	1968 Mexico City	Athletics	Men's 20 km Walk
Silver	Álvaro Gaxiola	1968 Mexico City	Diving	Men's Platform
Silver	Pilar Roldán	1968 Mexico City	Fencing	Women's Foil
Bronze	Agustín Zaragoza	1968 Mexico City	Boxing	Men's Middleweight
Bronze	Joaquín Rocha	1968 Mexico City	Boxing	Men's Heavyweight
Bronze	María Teresa Ramírez	1968 Mexico City	Swimming	Women's 800m Freestyle
Silver	Alfonso Zamora	1972 Munich	Boxing	Men's bantamweight
Gold	Daniel Bautista	1976 Montreal	Athletics	Men's 20 km walk
Bronze	Juan Paredes	1976 Montreal	Boxing	Men's featherweight
Silver	Carlos Girón	1980 Moscow	Diving	Men's 3m springboard
Bronze	Joaquín Pérez	1980 Moscow	Equestrian	Jumping Individual
Bronze	David Bárcena Manuel Mendivil José Luis Pérez Fabián Vázquez	1980 Moscow	Equestrian	Three-day Event Team Competition
Bronze	Jesús Gómez Joaquin Pérez Gerardo Tazzer Alberto Valdés, Jr.	1980 Moscow	Equestrian	Jumping Team Competition
Gold	Ernesto Canto	1984 Los Angeles	Athletics	Men's 20 km walk
Gold	Raúl González	1984 Los Angeles	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk
Silver	Raúl González	1984 Los Angeles	Athletics	Men's 20 km walk
Silver	Héctor López	1984 Los Angeles	Boxing	Men's bantamweight
Silver	Daniel Aceves	1984 Los Angeles	Wrestling	Men's flyweight
Bronze	José Youshimatz	1984 Los Angeles	Cycling (Track)	Men's points race
Bronze	Mario González	1988 Seoul	Boxing	Men's flyweight
Bronze	Jesús Mena	1988 Seoul	Diving	Men's 10m platform
Silver	Carlos Mercenario	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk
Bronze	Bernardo Segura	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 20 km walk
Gold	Soraya Jimenez	2000 Sydney	Weightlifting	Women's 58 kg
Silver	Noé Hernández	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 20 km walk
Silver	Fernando Platas	2000 Sydney	Diving	Men's 3m springboard
Bronze	Joel Sanchez	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk
Bronze	Cristian Bejarano	2000 Sydney	Boxing	Men's lightweight
Bronze	Víctor Estrada	2000 Sydney	Taekwondo	Men's 68–80 kg
Silver	Oscar Salazar	2004 Athens	Taekwondo	Men's -58 kg
Silver	Ana Guevara	2004 Athens	Athletics	Women's 400m
Silver	Belem Guerrero	2004 Athens	Cycling (Track)	Women's points race
Bronze	Iridia Salazar	2004 Athens	Taekwondo	Women's 49–57 kg
Gold	Guillermo Pérez	2008 Beijing	Taekwondo	Men's -58 kg
Gold	María Espinoza	2008 Beijing	Taekwondo	Women's +67 kg
Bronze	Paola Espinosa Tatiana Ortiz	2008 Beijing	Diving	Women's synchronised 10m platform
Gold	National Team	2012 London	Football	Men's tournament
Silver	German Sánchez Ivan García	2012 London	Diving	Men's synchronised 10m platform
Silver	Paola Espinosa Alejandra Orozco	2012 London	Diving	Women's synchronised 10m platform
Silver	Aída Román	2012 London	Archery	Women's archery
Bronze	Mariana Avitia	2012 London	Archery	Women's archery
Bronze	Laura Sánchez	2012 London	Diving	Women's 3m springboard
Bronze	María Espinoza	2012 London	Taekwondo	Women's +67 kg

Multiple Mexican Olympic medalists

Joaquín Capilla is the Mexican athlete with the most medals, four, and the only Mexican athlete who has obtained medals in three consecutive games, while Humberto Mariles is the only double Olympic champion, also the Mexican athlete with the most medals at a single Olympic games, with three in 1948, and got Mexico's first gold medal.

Both Paola Espinosa and María Espinoza became in 2012 the first Mexican females to have ever won 2 medals, both in consecutive games and with the latter being the first in individual competitions and with a gold medal.

Rank	Athlete	Sex	Sport	Games				Total
1	Joaquín Capilla	M	Diving	1956 Melbourne	1	0	1	4
				1952 Helsinki	0	1	0
				1948 London	0	0	1
2	Humberto Mariles	M	Equestrian		2	0	1	3
3	Rubén Uriza	M			1	1	0	2
	Raúl González	M	Athletics	1984 Los Angeles	1	1	0
5	María Espinoza	F	Taekwondo	2008 Beijing	1	0	0
				2012 London	0	0	1
6	Paola Espinosa	F	Diving		0	1	0
				2008 Beijing	0	0	1
7	Joaquín Pérez	M	Equestrian	1980 Moscow	0	0	2

See also

• Sport in Mexico
• Category: Olympic competitors for Mexico
• Mexico at the Paralympics

External links

• "Mexico". International Olympic Committee.
• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
• "Mexico". Sports-Reference.com.