Josefina Cornejo
Mexican Paralympic athlete
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Full name | Josefina Cornejo Martínez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1955-11-28) 28 November 1955 (age 68) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Josefina Cornejo Martínez[a][1] (born 28 November 1955) is a Mexican retired Paralympic athlete that won 14 medals at the Summer Paralympics. She represented Mexico in the 1976 Summer Paralympics, where she won four gold and two silver medals, and in the 1980 Summer Paralympics, where she won four gold, three silver, and one bronze medals. She competed in parathletism, paraswimming and para table tennis events. She was included in Hall of Fame of the Mexican Sports Confederation in 1983.[2]
Notes
- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cornejo and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.
References
- ^ López, Alfonso. "Dos mujeres de paratletismo son las máximas medallistas de México, en Juegos Paralímpicos". Instituto Mexicano de la Radio. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ Maldonado Tello, Analí (12 July 2018). "10 atletas paraolímpicos mexicanos que debes conocer". Atletas Latinoamérica (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
External links
- Josefina Cornejo at the International Paralympic Committee
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