Paola Pliego
| Paola Pliego | ||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Maria Paola Pliego Lara | |||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Mexico | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
27 September 1994 Mexico City, Mexico | |||||||||||||||
| Residence | Querétaro | |||||||||||||||
| Weapon(s) | sabre | |||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||
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Maria Paola Pliego Lara, known as Paola Pliego (born September 27, 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican sabre fencer, bronze medallist at the 2015 Pan American Fencing Championships.
Career
Pliego became interested in fencing at the age of four after watching a fencing scene in The Parent Trap.[1] She was too small to train at the time, but persisted in her interest and eventually took courses with her sister. She started to compete when she was a teenager. After she earned her first medals at the Mexican national championships, she trained at the Oregon Fencing Alliance, alongside twice-Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis.[2]
With 150 points Pliego in 2013-2014 season ends as number 1 seeded of FIE's junior women saber ranking [3]
Pliego won the 2013–14 Fencing World Cup in the junior category. In the 2014–15 season, she ranked second at the Cancún satellite tournament. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Championships in Santiago after losing 10–15 in the semifinals to USA's Dagmara Wozniak.[4] She went on to take the silver medal with the team.
References
- ↑ "Paola Pliego y la esgrima". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). 16 May 2013.
- ↑ "La queretana Paola Pliego, en la cima del esgrima". El Economista (in Spanish). 5 February 2014.
- ↑ http://fie.org/results-statistic/ranking?result_models_Ranks%5BFencCatId%5D=J&result_models_Ranks%5BWeaponId%5D=S&result_models_Ranks%5BGenderId%5D=F&result_models_Ranks%5BCompTypeId%5D=I&result_models_Ranks%5BCPYear%5D=2014&result_models_Ranks%5BNationality%5D=&result_models_Ranks%5BLastName%5D=
- ↑ María Vega (19 April 2015). "Paola Pliego, bronce en el Panamericano de Chile". Esto.