Mexico at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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| At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich | ||||||||||
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| Medals Rank: 33 |
Gold 0 |
Silver 1 |
Bronze 0 |
Total 1 |
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Mexico competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
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[edit] Medals
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Silver
- Alfonso Zamora – Boxing, Men's Bantamweight
[edit] Results by event
[edit] Archery
In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Mexico entered three men and three women. The women were much more successful than the men, though none of the archers won a medal. Their highest placing competitor was Francisca de Gutierrez, at 10th place in the women's competition.
Women's Individual Competition:
- Francisca de Gutierrez – 2353 points (→ 10th place)
- Aurora Breton – 2335 points (→ 15th place)
- Silvia de Tapia – 2258 points (→ 23rd place)
Men's Individual Competition:
- Alfonso Jones – 2344 points (→ 28th place)
- Rafael Aveleira – 2178 points (→ 51st place)
- José Almanzor – 2175 points (→ 52nd place)
[edit] Athletics
Men's 5000 metres
- Marío Pérez
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- Heat — 13:58.2 (→ did not advance)
- Pedro Miranda
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- Heat — 13:45.2 (→ did not advance)
[edit] Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
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- First Round — Lost to Ralph Evans (GBR), 1:4
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
- Emeterio Villanueva
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- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated Alfredo Lemus (VEN), 4:1
- Third Round — Defeated Christopher Elliott (IRL), TKO-3
- Quarterfinals — Lost to Peter Tiepold (GDR), 0:5
[edit] Cycling
[edit] Road Competition
Men's Individual Road Race
- Jesús Sarabia — 10th place
- Agustín Alcántara — did not finish (→ no ranking)
- Francisco Vázquez — did not finish (→ no ranking)
- Francisco Javier Huerta — did not finish (→ no ranking)
[edit] Track Competition
Men's 1.000m Time Trial
- Arturo Cambroni
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- Final — 1:11.54 (→ 24th place)
[edit] Diving
Men's 3m Springboard
- Carlos Armando Giron – 521.88 points (→ 9th place)
- José de Jesus Robinson – 514.02 points (→ 11th place)
- Porfirio Becerril – 310.65 points (→ 27th place)
Men's 10m Platform
- Carlos Armando Giron – 442.41 points (→ 8th place)
- José de Jesus Robinson – 284.58 points (→ 14th place)
- Porfirio Becerril – 282.57 points (→ 15th place)
Women's 3m Springboard
- Bertha Baraldi – 252.66 points (→ 15th place)
Women's 10m Platform
- Bertha Baraldi – 174.21 points (→ 20th place)
[edit] Football
[edit] Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group 2)
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- Defeated Sudan (1-0)
- Defeated Burma (1-0)
- Lost to Soviet Union (1-4)
- Second Round (Group A)
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- Drew with West Germany (1-1)
- Lost to East Germany (0-7)
- Lost to Hungary (0-2)
- Did not advance → Seventh place
- Team Roster
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- Juan Manuel Álvarez
- Francisco Barba Ordaz
- Fernando Blanco Garell
- Manuel Borja Garcia
- Leonardo Cuellar Rivera
- Alejandro Hernandez Pat
- Alfredo Hernandez Martinez
- Manuel Manzo Ortega
- Salvador Marquez Ramos
- Enrique Martin del Campo
- Alejandro Peña
- Daniel Razo Marquez
- David Regalado
- Lorenzo Reyes
- Jesus Rico Espejel
- Rogelio Ruiz Vaquera
- Horacio Sánchez Marquez
- José Angel Talavera
- José Luis Trejo Montoya
[edit] Hockey
[edit] Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group B)
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- Lost to Great Britain (0-6)
- Lost to New Zealand (0-7)
- Lost to Poland (0-3)
- Lost to Australia (0-10)
- Lost to the Netherlands (0-4)
- Lost to India (0-8)
- Lost to Kenya (1-2)
- Classification Match
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- 15th/16th place: Lost to Uganda (1-4) → 16th place
[edit] Modern pentathlon
Men's Individual Competition:
- Gilberto Toledano Sanchez – 4428 points (→ 42nd place)
- Eduarde Olivera Lastra – 4426 points (→ 43rd place)
- Juan José Castilla Ramos – 4014 points (→ 55th place)
Men's Team Competition:
- Toledano Sanchez, Olivera Lastra, and Castilla Ramos – 12901 points (→ 17th place)
Alternate Member:
- Rafael Alvarez Perez
[edit] Rowing
Men's Single Sculls
- Guillermo Spamer
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- Heat — 8:38.63
- Repechage — 8:40.76 (→ did not advance)
[edit] Swimming
Men's 100m Freestyle
- Roberto Strauss
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- Heat — 56.78s (→ did not advance)
Men's 200m Freestyle
- Guillermo García
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- Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)
- Roberto Strauss
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- Heat — 2:03.57 (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
- Jorge Urreta, José Santibañez, Guillermo García and Roberto Strauss
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- Heat — DNF (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
- Guillermo García, Roberto Strauss, José Luis Prado, and Jorge Urreta
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- Heat — 8:08.39 (→ did not advance)
[edit] Water polo
[edit] Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
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- Lost to Cuba (4-6)
- Defeated Canada (7-3)
- Lost to Yugoslavia (3-5)
- Lost to United States (5-7)
- Lost to Romania (6-9) → Did not advance
- Team Roster
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- Daniel Goméz Bilbao
- Arturo Valencia Cadena
- Alfredo Sauza Martinéz
- Francisco Garcia Moreno
- Juan Manuel Garcia Moreno
- Raul Alanis Guerrero
- Maximiliano Aguilar Salazar
- Armando Fernandez Alatorre
- Ricardo Chapa Galaviz
- Rafael Azpeitia Lopez
- Victor Manuel Garcia Romero
