Jessica Berenice García Quijano (born 23 September 1995) is a Mexican para-taekwondo athlete.
Early life Garcia was born in Mérida, Yucatán, on 23 September 1995. When she was eight, her father put her in a taekwondo school in Mérida, Yucatán. From 2003 to 2015, she trained with able-bodied opponents to gain experience.
Career In 2022, she finished second in the world rankings in her category.
She won the 52 kg category, defeating Egyptian Salma Ali Abd 3–1, in the 2023 World Para-Taekwondo Championships held in Boca del Río, Veracruz. Thus she became the first Mexican woman world champion in this discipline. She also won a silver, in the K44-52, at the Parapan American games at Santiago, Chile in November 2023.
In 2024, she won a silver medal at the 9th Asian Taekwondo Championships at city of Da Nang, Vietnam, in the K44 -52 kg category after losing in the final to Surenjav Ulambayar of Mongolia.
Before the Tokyo Paralympics, she moved to Mexico City to train at the National High Performance Center (CNAR). In her debut at the Paralympics in Paris 2024, she finished fifth.
See also Daniela Martínez Mariscal
References
External links
Jessica Berenice García Quijano at Mexicanos en París