1. Mariana Avitia Martinez was born on September 18,1993 and is a Mexican recurve archer.
15 Facts About Mariana Avitia
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Mariana Avitia was the first Mexican to win an Olympic medal in archery after taking bronze in the women's individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Mariana Avitia is the youngest Mexican athlete to compete in two Olympic Games, contesting both the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 Summer Youth Olympics by the age of seventeen.
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Mariana Avitia competed in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, finishing in 10th overall.
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At aged 14, Mariana Avitia entered 2008 Summer Olympics as the youngest member of the Mexican Olympic team.
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Mariana Avitia began her head-to-head matches strongly with victories over North Korea's Son Hye-Yong, Poland's Malgorzata Cwienczek, and Georgia's Khatuna Narimanidze in the first three elimination rounds, the latter result being described as an upset by The Guardian.
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Mariana Avitia won five medals at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, and her participation at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics shortly afterwards made Mariana Avitia Mexico's youngest athlete to compete in two Olympic games.
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Mariana Avitia narrowly missed out on a medal result, being eliminated by eventual winner Kwak Ye-ji of South Korea in the semi-finals and losing to Russia's Tatiana Segina in the bronze medal contest.
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Mariana Avitia was however eliminated in the second round of the individual competition, although she did succeed in winning the women's team gold medal with Roman and Alejandra Valencia.
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Mariana Avitia was re-selected for the Mexican team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, entering the women's individual and women's team events alongside Aida Roman and Alejandra Valencia.
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In difficult conditions which saw unpredictable wind gusts, Mariana Avitia overcame the five-time Olympian to win her maiden Olympic medal, her bronze and Roman's silver in the final securing Mexico's first ever archery Olympic medals.
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Mariana Avitia returned to the national team in 2017 and participated in the World Archery Championships taking place on home soil in Mexico City.
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In 2019 Mariana Avitia was she successfully re-selected to the national team, her third place in the national trials being rewarded with entries for the year's World Archery Championship in June and Pan American Games in August.
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Mariana Avitia however had a disappointing World Championships when she, Roman and Valencia were eliminated from the team competition prior to the quarter-final stage, a loss that ended Mexico's chances of qualifying for the women's team event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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The Pan American Games two months later saw Mariana Avitia contributing to another women's team silver medal and achieving Mexico's 134th medal of the games, a new national record.