The 15th Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 to 29 July 2007. Mexico participated with 400 athletes and 218 staff members (delegates, officials, medical and auxiliary staff).

Goals Mexican athletes achieved the Mexican Olympic Committee goal for the National representation as they ended up placed at the 5th place in general medal count, same place obtained at the 14th Pan American Games.

Medals

Gold

Athletics María Romary Rifka – Women's high jump Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza – Women's 400m José David Galván – Men's 10000m

Boxing Carlos Cuadras Quiroa – Men's bantamweight 54 kg

Canoeing José Cristóbal Quirino – Men's C1 1000m and 500 categories. Manuel Cortina and Jesús Valdez – Men's K2 1000m and 500m categories. Manuel Cortina – Men's K1 500m

Diving Paola Espinosa – Women's 10m platform and 3m springboard categories. Paola Espinosa and Laura Sánchez – Women's 3m synch springboard

Judo Vanessa Zambotti – Women's over 78 kg

Squash Erick Gálvez – Men's individual.

Taekwondo Alejandra Gaal – Women's up to 49 kg Iridia Salazar – Women's from 49 to 57 kg María del Rosario Espinoza – Women's above 67 kg

Weightlifting Carolina Valencia – Women's up to 48 kg category (First Gold medal for Mexico at the 2007 Pan American Games).

Silver

Athletics Dulce María Rodríguez de la Cruz – Women's 10,000m Juan Luis Barrios – Men's 5000m and 1500m categories. Horacio Nava – Men's 50 km walk Giovanni Lanaro – Men's pole vault Talis Apud – Women's 3000m steeplechase Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza, Gabriela E. Medina, Zudykey Rodríguez and María Teresa Rugeiro – Women's 4x400m relay

Archery Aida Román – Women's individual.

Canoeing José Cristóbal Quirino and Gilberto Soriano – Men's C2 500m

Cycling Alexandra Giuseppina Grassi – Women's individual pursuit Belem Guerrero Méndez – Women's road race

Diving Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz Galicia – Women's 10m synch platform Laura Sánchez – Women's 3m springboard Rommel Pacheco – Men's 10m platform

Rhythmic gymnastics Cynthia Yazmin Valdez Pérez – Women's individual all-around Ruth Castillo Galindo – Women's individual apparatus, hoop

Karate Bertha Gutiérrez – Women's under 60 kg

Rowing Analicia Ramírez and Lila Pérez – Women's lightweight double sculls

Sailing Tania Elías Calles Wolf – Women's one person dinghy, laser radial

Swimming Patricia Midori Castañeda Miyamoto – Women's 400m and 800m freestyle categories.

Weightlifting Cinthya Domínguez – Women's up to 69 kg Damaris Aguirre – Women's up to 75 kg

Bronze

Archery Jorge Chapoy, Juan René Serrano and Eduardo Vélez – Men's team

Athletics María Esther Sánchez – Women's 20 km walk Alejandro Suárez – Men's 10000m Nora Leticia Rocha – Women's 5000m Omar Cepeda de León – Men's 50 km walk Procopio Franco – Men's marathon.

Baseball Mexican and Nicaraguan men's national teams, Bronze medal in Baseball, the game was cancelled due to rain, and the Organizing Committee decided to award the medal to both teams.

Beach Volleyball Bibiana Candelas and Mayra García – Women's beach volleyball.

Boxing Braulio Ávila Juárez – Men's fly 51 kg

Bowling Sandra Góngora and Adriana Pérez – Women's doubles.

Canoeing Anca Ionela Mateescu – Women's K1 500m

Cycling Laura Lorenza Morfin Macouzet – Women's mountain bike Belem Guerrero Méndez – women's points race

Football Mexico men's national team.

Rhythmic gymnastics Ruth Castillo Galindo – Women's individual all-around Cynthia Yasmín Valdez Pérez – Women's individual apparatus, rope, clubs and ribbon categories. Blajaith Aguilar Rojas, Sofía Díaz de León Lastras, Marienne Montserrat Martínez Medina, Ana Cristina Ortega Benítez, Citlaly Quinta Álvarez and Sara Elizabeth Reyes Rodríguez – Women's all-around

Sailing David Mier y Terán – Men's Windsurfer, Neil Pryde RS:X Andrés Akle Carranza and Jorge Xavier Murrieta – Men's double-handed dinghy, snipe

Shooting José Roberto Elías Orozco – Men's 10m air rifle Alix Moncada – Women's 10m air rifle Ariel Mauricio Flores Gómez – Men's skeet

Squash Samantha Terán – Women's Squash. Samantha Terán, Karina Herrera Zúñiga and Nayelly Hernández – Women's team Erick Gálvez, Jorge Baltazar and Marcos Méndez – Men's team

Swimming Juan Veloz – Men's 200m butterfly

Taekwondo José Luis Ramírez – Men's from 68 to 80 kg

Tennis Santiago González and Víctor Romero – Men's team

Wrestling Oscar Aguilar – Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg

Revoked medals

Artistic gymnastics The Pan American Games Organizing Committee decided to revoke the Bronze medal obtained by the Mexican Women's gymnastics team (Marisela Arizmendi Torres, Maricela Cantú Mata, Yesenia Estrada Martínez, Érika Mariene García Aguiñaga, Elsa García Rodríguez Blancas and Yeny Ibarra Valdez); Marisela Arizmendi Torres had an accreditation as an official ("As" accreditation) instead of being registered as an athlete ("Ao" accreditation), therefore the PASO Executive Committee decided to revoke the bronze medal and award it to the Canadian Women's team, who came up as 4th during the competition.

Results by event

Basketball

Women's team competition Team Roster Jennifer Arriola Veronica Carmona Alejandra Delgado Abril Selene García Erika Gomez Fernanda Gutierrez Lourdes Machuca Taine Ramírez Sandra Ramos Zazil Salman Brisa Silva Melendez Villavicencio

Triathlon

Men's Competition Arturo Garza 1:53:43.51 – 9th place Leonardo Saucedo 1:56:26.50 – 18th place Javier Rosas Sierra 1:56:49.99 – 19th place

Women's Competition Melody Angel Ramírez 2:00:44.24 – 5th place Adriana Corona 2:01:00.46 – 7th place Dunia Gómez Tirado 2:04:20.30 – 15th place

See also Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics Events at the 2007 Pan American Games

References

External links Pan American Games Rio 2007 Games Official site. Comité Olímpico Mexicano, Mexican Olympic Committee official website (Spanish).