Mexico at the Olympics
Template:Infobox Olympics Mexico Mexico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900 and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since 1924. Mexico has also participated in several Winter Olympic Games since 1928, though has never medaled in the Winter Olympics.
Mexican athletes have won a total of 62 medals - with athletics, boxing and diving as the top medal-producing sports.
The National Olympic Committee for Mexico is the Mexican Olympic Committee and was created in 1923.
Hosted Games
Mexico was the first Latin American nation to host the Olympic Games. 48 years after, Brazil is scheduled to become the second Latin American country to host the event, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
| Games | Dates | Nations |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 Summer Olympics | 12 October - 27 October | 112 |
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
| Games | Athletes | 
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Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 Athens | Did not participate | |||||
| 1900 Paris | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| 1904 St. Louis | Did not participate | |||||
| 1908 London | ||||||
| 1912 Stockholm | ||||||
| 1920 Antwerp | ||||||
| 1924 Paris | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1928 Amsterdam | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1932 Los Angeles | 73 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 21 |
| 1936 Berlin | 32 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 28 |
| 1948 London | 88 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 17 |
| 1952 Helsinki | 64 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 34 |
| 1956 Melbourne | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 23 |
| 1960 Rome | 69 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 41 |
| 1964 Tokyo | 94 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 35 |
| 1968 Mexico City | 275 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 |
| 1972 Munich | 174 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 33 |
| 1976 Montreal | 97 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 25 |
| 1980 Moscow | 45 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 29 |
| 1984 Los Angeles | 99 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 1988 Seoul | 83 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 44 |
| 1992 Barcelona | 102 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 49 |
| 1996 Atlanta | 97 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 71 |
| 2000 Sydney | 78 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 40 |
| 2004 Athens | 109 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 59 |
| 2008 Beijing | 85 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 36 |
| 2012 London | 102 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 39 |
| Total | 1837 | 13 | 21 | 28 | 62 | 41 |
Medals by Winter Games
| Games | Athletes |
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|
|
Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 Chamonix | Did not participate | |||||
| 1928 St. Moritz | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1932 Lake Placid | Did not participate | |||||
| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | ||||||
| 1948 St. Moritz | ||||||
| 1952 Oslo | ||||||
| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | ||||||
| 1960 Squaw Valley | ||||||
| 1964 Innsbruck | ||||||
| 1968 Grenoble | ||||||
| 1972 Sapporo | ||||||
| 1976 Innsbruck | ||||||
| 1980 Lake Placid | ||||||
| 1984 Sarajevo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1988 Calgary | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1992 Albertville | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1994 Lillehammer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1998 Nagano | Did not participate | |||||
| 2002 Salt Lake City | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 Turin | Did not participate | |||||
| 2010 Vancouver | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 Sochi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Total | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Medals by sport
| Sport |
|
|
|
Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics |
3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 41 |
 Boxing |
2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 24 |
 Equestrian |
2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
 Taekwondo |
2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
 Diving |
1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 11 |
 Swimming |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 38 |
 Football |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
 Weightlifting |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 |
 Archery |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
 Cycling |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 35 |
 Fencing |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26 |
 Shooting |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 52 |
 Wrestling |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 46 |
 Polo |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
 Basketball |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
| Total | 13 | 21 | 28 | 62 |
- Sport rankings in italic still not updated with the 2012 combined totals.
List of medalists
Summer Olympics
Multiple Mexican Olympic medalists
Joaquín Capilla is the Mexican athlete with the most medals, four, and the only Mexican athlete who has obtained medals in three consecutive games, while Humberto Mariles is the only double Olympic champion, also the Mexican athlete with the most medals at a single Olympic games, with three in 1948, and got Mexico's first gold medal.
Both Paola Espinosa and María Espinoza became in 2012 the first Mexican females to have ever won 2 medals, both in consecutive games and with the latter being the first in individual competitions and with a gold medal.
| Rank | Athlete | Sex | Sport | Games |
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|
|
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joaquín Capilla | M | Diving
|
1956 Melbourne | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1952 Helsinki | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 1948 London | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Humberto Mariles | M | Equestrian
|
2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 3 | Rubén Uriza | M | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Raúl González | M | Athletics
|
1984 Los Angeles | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 5 | María Espinoza | F | Taekwondo
|
2008 Beijing | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2012 London | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 6 | Paola Espinosa | F | Diving
|
0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2008 Beijing | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 7 | Joaquín Pérez | M | Equestrian
|
1980 Moscow | 0 | 0 | 2 |
See also
External links
- "Mexico". International Olympic Committee.
- Template:IOC medals
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
- "Mexico". Sports-Reference.com.
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