Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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Silver

  • Ana Guevara
    Ana Guevara
    Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza is a now-retired Mexican track and field athlete, specialized in the 400 meters. Her career began in 1996 carrying out diverse tours, participating in her first international competences...

     — Athletics, Women's 400 metres

  • Belem Guerrero
    Belem Guerrero
    Belem Guerrero Méndez is a Mexican track cyclist who represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where she won a silver medal in the Women's Points Race.-Palmarès:19971998199920012002...

     — Cycling, Women Points Race

  • Oscar Salazar
    Oscar Salazar (taekwondo)
    Óscar Salazar Blanco is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he received a silver medal in the 58 kg class...

     — Taekwondo, Men's under 58 kg

Bronze

  • Iridia Salazar
    Iridia Salazar
    Iridia Salazar Blanco is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she received a bronze medal in the 57 kg class....

     — Taekwondo, Women's under 57 kg

Archery

  • Jorge Pablo Chapoy
    Jorge Pablo Chapoy
    Jorge Pablo Chapoy Bosque is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery.Chapoy competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 34th overall.Chapoy was also a member of the 12th-place Mexican men's archery team at...

    , Eduardo Avelino Magaña
    Eduardo Avelino Magana
    Eduardo Avelino Magaña Poot is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery.Magaña competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 49th overall....

    , and Juan René Serrano
    Juan Rene Serrano
    Juan René Serrano Gutiérrez is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery.Serrano competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated...

     - men's team, 12th place
  • Juan René Serrano
    Juan Rene Serrano
    Juan René Serrano Gutiérrez is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery.Serrano competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated...

     - men's individual, 20th place
  • Jorge Pablo Chapoy
    Jorge Pablo Chapoy
    Jorge Pablo Chapoy Bosque is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery.Chapoy competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 34th overall.Chapoy was also a member of the 12th-place Mexican men's archery team at...

     - men's individual, 34th place
  • Eduardo Avelino Magaña
    Eduardo Avelino Magana
    Eduardo Avelino Magaña Poot is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery.Magaña competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 49th overall....

     - men's individual, 49th place

Athletics

Men's 200 metres
  • Juan Pedro Toledo
    Juan Pedro Toledo
    Juan Pedro Toledo Domínguez is a sprint athlete from Mexico. He twice won the gold medal in the men's 200 metres at the Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.-References:*...

  • Semifinal — 20.64 (→ did not advance)


Men's 400 metres
  • Alejandro Cardenas
    Alejandro Cárdenas
    Alejandro Manuel Cárdenas Robles is a retired track & field athlete from Mexico. He is married to high jumper athlete Romary Rifka....

  • Round 2 — 45.64 (→ did not advance)


Men's 5,000 metres
  • Alejandro Suarez
    Alejandro Suárez
    Alejandro Suárez Velázquez is a Mexican long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres. His personal best time is 13:18.13 minutes, achieved in June 2003 in Victoria...

  • Round 1 — 13:35.32 (→ did not advance)


Men's 10,000 metres
  • Teodoro Vega
    Teodoro Vega
    Teodoro Vega Morales is a Mexican long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres. He has not competed on top level since the 2009 season.-Achievements:-Personal bests:...

  • Final — 29:06.55 (→ 20th place)

  • David Galván
    David Galván
    José David Galván Martínez is a Mexican long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 and 10,000 metres...

  • Final — 29:38.05 (→ 21st place)


Men's Marathon
  • Procopio Franco — 2:23:34 (→ 55th place)
  • Andrés Espinosa
    Andrés Espinosa
    Andrés Espinosa Pérez is a retired Mexican long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races....

     — 2:29:43 (→ 69th place)
  • Jose Ernani Palalia — 2:31:41 (→ 72nd place)


Men's 20 km Walk
  • Omar Segura — 1:24:35 (→ 18th place)
  • Bernardo Segura
    Bernardo Segura
    Bernardo Segura Rivera is a Mexican race walker.He is a former holder of the 20,000m World Record for Race Walking with a time of 1:17:25.6....

     — DNF (→ no ranking)
  • Noé Hernández
    Noé Hernández
    Noé Hernández Valentin is a Mexican race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...

     — DSQ (→ no ranking)


Men's 50 km Walk:
  • Miguel Angel Rodriguez — 3:55:43 (→ 15th place)
  • Germán Sánchez — 3:58:33 (→ 17th place)
  • Mario Ivan Flores
    Mario Iván Flores
    Mario Iván Flores Hernández is a Mexican race walker.-Achievements:-References:...

     — DNF (→ no ranking)


Men's Pole Vault
  • Giovanni Lanaro
    Giovanni Lanaro
    Giovanni Alessandro Lanaro is a Mexican pole vaulter.-Youth and college:Giovanni Lanaro attended West Covina High School in California; Lanaro pole vaulted as a freshman in high school but suffered a back injury as well as a fractured ankle skateboarding that prevented him from vaulting the next...

  • Round 1 — no mark (→ did not advance)



Women's 100 metres
  • Liliana Allen
    Liliana Allen
    Liliana Allen Doll is a Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico. She previously represented Cuba....

  • Round 2 — 11.52 (→ did not advance)


Women's 400 metres
  • Ana Gabriela Guevara
    Ana Guevara
    Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza is a now-retired Mexican track and field athlete, specialized in the 400 meters. Her career began in 1996 carrying out diverse tours, participating in her first international competences...

  • Round 1 — 50.93
  • Semifinal — 50.15
  • Final — 49.56 (→ Silver Medal)


Women's 5,000 metres
  • Dulce Maria Rodriguez
    Dulce María Rodríguez
    Dulce María Rodríguez de la Cruz is a Mexican long-distance runner who competes in track and road running events, including the marathon...

  • Round 1 — 16:08.07


Women's 10,000 metres
  • Adriana Fernandez
    Adriana Fernández
    Adriana Fernández Miranda is a long-distance runner from México.Fernández was 2nd in 1998, and in 1999, she became the first Mexican woman to win the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:25:06 in a dominant performance by taking charge on a windy day and kept building her lead.In 2003, Fernández...

  • Final — 32:29.57 (→ 23rd place)


Women's 4x400 m Relay
  • Liliana Allen
    Liliana Allen
    Liliana Allen Doll is a Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico. She previously represented Cuba....

    , Magali Yanez, Ana Guevara
    Ana Guevara
    Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza is a now-retired Mexican track and field athlete, specialized in the 400 meters. Her career began in 1996 carrying out diverse tours, participating in her first international competences...

    , and Mayra Gonzalez
  • Round 1 — 3:27.88 (NR) (→ 11th place)


Women's Marathon
  • Margarita Tapia — 2:46:14 (→ 38th place)
  • Angélica Sánchez
    Angélica Sánchez
    Angélica Sánchez Cautelán is a female long-distance runner from Mexico. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 46th place in the women's marathon event, clocking 2:49.04...

     — 2:49:04 (→ 46th place)


Women's High Jump
  • Romary Rifka
    Romary Rifka
    María Romary Rifka González is a female Mexican high jumper. She is married to track & field athlete, Alejandro Cárdenas. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in April 2004 in Xalapa. This is the current Mexican record.-Achievements:-References:...

  • Round 1 — 1.92 metres (→ did not advance)


Women's Hammer
  • Violeta Guzman
  • Round 1 — 62.76 metres (→ did not advance)


Women's 20 km Walk
  • Victoria Palacios
    Victoria Palacios
    Victoria Palacios Carillo is a retired female race walker from Mexico.-Achievements:-References:*...

     — 1:36:07 (→ 34th place)
  • Rosario Sánchez
    Rosario Sánchez
    María del Rosario Sánchez Guerrero is a female track and field athlete from Mexico, who competed in race walking. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....

     — DNF (→ no ranking)

Boxing

Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
  • Raúl Castañeda
    Raúl Castañeda
    Raúl Castañeda is a boxer from Mexico, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country...

  • Round of 32 — Bye
  • Round of 16 — Lost to Sergey Kazakov
    Sergey Kazakov
    Sergey Kazakov is a Russian amateur boxer best known to win the World Championships 2003 and European Championships 1998, 2002 and 2004 in the Men's Light Flyweight.Kazakov won the European Championships in 1998...

     of Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    , 41-16


Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
  • Abner Mares Martínez
  • Round of 32 — Lost to Zsolt Bedak
    Zsolt Bedák
    Zsolt Bedák is a Hungarian boxer. His younger brother Pál Bedák is a flyweight boxer.-Amateur career:*2001 Bedák won bronze at the European Junior Championships....

     of Hungary
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

    , 36-27


Light Welterweight (– 64 kg)
  • Juan de Dios Navarro
    Juan de Dios Navarro
    Juan de Dios Navarro Ramírez is a boxer from Mexico, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country.-Amateur career:...

  • Round of 32 — Lost to Nurzhan Karimzhanov
    Nurzhan Karimzhanov
    Nurzhan Karimzhanov is a Kazakhstani boxer, who won the gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games in the Junior Welterweight division.-Career:...

     of Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

    , 48-31


Middleweight (– 75 kg)
  • Alfredo Angulo
    Alfredo Angulo
    Alfredo Angulo López is a Mexican professional boxer and the former interim WBO Light Middleweight Champion. Angulo also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for Mexico...

  • Round of 32 — Lost to Andy Lee
    Andy Lee (boxer)
    Andy Lee , is an Irish professional boxer from Limerick, Ireland who fights in the Middleweight division.-Background:Lee was born in Bow, London, England to Irish parents...

     of Ireland
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

    , 38-23


Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
  • Ramiro Reducindo
    Ramiro Reducindo
    Ramiro Goben Reducindo Radilla is a boxer from Mexico, who won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo at light heavyweight by defeating Yoan Pablo Hernandez in the final.-Amateur:At the...

  • Round of 32 — Lost to Magomed Aripgadjiev
    Magomed Aripgadjiev
    Magomed Aripgadzhiyev or Mahamed Ali is a Belarusian boxer, who competed in the Men's Light Heavyweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal...

     of Belarus
    Belarus
    Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

    , 29-10

Road cycling

Women's road race:
  • Belém Guerrero Méndez
    Belem Guerrero
    Belem Guerrero Méndez is a Mexican track cyclist who represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where she won a silver medal in the Women's Points Race.-Palmarès:19971998199920012002...

     - 46th place, 3:33:35

Track cycling

Women's Time Trial:
  • Nancy Contreras
    Nancy Contreras
    Nancy Llarely Contreras Reyes is a female track cyclist from Mexico, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2004. She won a bronze medal in the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina.-References:*...

     - 8th place, 34.783 seconds


Women's Points Race:
  • Belém Guerrero Méndez
    Belem Guerrero
    Belem Guerrero Méndez is a Mexican track cyclist who represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where she won a silver medal in the Women's Points Race.-Palmarès:19971998199920012002...

     - silver medal, 14 points

Diving

Men's Springboard
  • Fernando Platas
    Fernando Platas
    Fernando Platas is a Mexican diver. He began diving since he was a young boy. In 1990 he won in Germany two tests of 2 and 10 metres, and in that same year he won three gold medals in the Central American Games which took place in Mexico City.In 1992, he represented Mexico in the 1992 Summer...

     — 5th place
  • Rommel Pacheco
    Rommel Pacheco
    Rommel Pacheco is a Mexican diver. He was the gold medalist in the 10-meter platform at the 2003 Pan American Games. In the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished in 10th place in the 10-meter platform and 3-meter springboard. In the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished in 8th place in the 10-meter...

     — 10th place


Men's Platform
  • Rommel Pacheco
    Rommel Pacheco
    Rommel Pacheco is a Mexican diver. He was the gold medalist in the 10-meter platform at the 2003 Pan American Games. In the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished in 10th place in the 10-meter platform and 3-meter springboard. In the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished in 8th place in the 10-meter...

     — 10th place


Women's Springboard
  • Paola Espinosa
    Paola Espinosa
    Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez is an athlete from Mexico. She competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, being her national team's flagbearer in the latter...

     — 12th place
  • Jashia Luna
    Jashia Luna
    Jashia Judith Luña Alfaro is a female diver from Mexico. She represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 2000.-References:*...

     — 20th place


Women's Platform
  • Paola Espinosa
    Paola Espinosa
    Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez is an athlete from Mexico. She competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, being her national team's flagbearer in the latter...

     — 12th place
  • Jashia Luna
    Jashia Luna
    Jashia Judith Luña Alfaro is a female diver from Mexico. She represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 2000.-References:*...

     — 13th place


Women's Synchronized Springboard
  • Laura Sánchez and Paola Espinosa
    Paola Espinosa
    Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez is an athlete from Mexico. She competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, being her national team's flagbearer in the latter...

     — 5th place


Women's Synchronized Platform
  • Jashia Luna
    Jashia Luna
    Jashia Judith Luña Alfaro is a female diver from Mexico. She represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 2000.-References:*...

     and Paola Espinosa
    Paola Espinosa
    Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez is an athlete from Mexico. She competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, being her national team's flagbearer in the latter...

     — 5th place

Equestrian

Gerardo Tazzer Valencia / Chanel

Federico Fernández Senderos / Bohemio

Gustavo Ramos Leyva / Minotauro

Marcela Lobo Pérez-Maldonado / Joskin

Fencing

Men's foil individual:
  • Edgar Chumacero Hernández - defeated in round of 32

Men's Team Competition

Men's: 10th place
  • Preliminary round: 1-1-1
  • Quarterfinal: did not qualify


Players: José de Jesús Corona Rodríguez, Francisco Ochoa Magaña, Aarón Galindo Rubio, Diego Alfonso Martínez Balderas, Mario Pérez Zúñiga, Gonzalo Pineda Reyes, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Pinedo, Ismael de Jesús Rodríguez Vega, Israel López Hernández, Antonio Naelson Matías, Luis Ernesto Pérez Gómez, Omar Bravo Tordecillas,, Juan Pablo García Contreras, Rafael Márquez Alvarez, Sergio Amauri Ponce Villegas, Ismael Iñiguez González,
Hugo Sánchez Guerrero, Gerardo Espinoza Ahumada, Rafael Márquez Lugo

Women's Team Competition

Women's: 8th place
  • Preliminary round: 0-1-1
  • Quarterfinal: lost to Brazil, 5-0
  • Team Roster
  • Verónica Zepeda
  • Nancy Gutiérrez
  • Alma Martínez
    Alma Martinéz
    Alma Socorro Martínez Toores is a female footballer from Mexico.-Career:Martinéz competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Women's National Team.-References:*...

  • Dioselina Valderrama
  • Fatima Leyva
    Fátima Leyva
    Fátima Leyva Morán is a Mexican footballer. She plays as a midfielder for the Mexico women's national football team.-Career:...

  • Juana López
  • Mónica Vergara
    Mónica Vergara
    Mónica Vergara Rubio is a Mexican footballer. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Women's National Team.-References:*...

  • Patricia Pérez
    Patricia Pérez
    Patricia Pérez Peña is a female footballer from Mexico. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Women's National Team....

  • Maribel Domínguez
    Maribel Domínguez
    Maribel Guadalupe Domínguez Castelán is a Mexican footballer.-Career:In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Domínguez led the Mexican women's Olympic soccer team to the quarter-finals. Later in 2004, she accepted a two year contract from a second division Mexican men's football club Atlético Celaya. This...

  • Guadalupe Worbis
  • Iris Mora
  • Elizabeth Gómez
  • María de Jesús Castillo
    María de Jesús Castillo
    María de Jesús Castillo Nicacio is a Mexican footballer. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Mexico women's national football team.-References:*...

  • Rubí Sandoval
    Rubí Sandoval
    Rubí Marlene Sandoval Nungaray is a female footballer from Mexico. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Women's National Team....

  • Jennifer Molina
    Jennifer Molina
    Jennifer Marie Molina Shea is a Mexican footballer goalkeeper from Mexico. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Women's National Team. Molina was affiliated with the Colgate University.-References:*...

  • Pamela Tajonar
    Pamela Tajonar
    Pamela Tajonar Alonso is a Mexican football goalkeeper currently playing for Damallsvenskan defending champions LdB Malmö. She has also played the W-League twice, winning the title in 2010 with Buffalo Flash...


Gymnastics

Women's artistic:
  • Brenda Magana
    Brenda Magaña
    Brenda Magaña Almaral is a Mexican artistic gymnast. Magana is best known for being the first woman to successfully complete a triple back somersalt from the bars! which she did at the 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen. This move is unusual even amongst male gymnasts, and in...

     - did not advance in any exercise
  • Laura Moreno
    Laura Moreno
    Laura del Carmen Moreno Garza is a Mexican artistic gymnast.-References:...

     - did not advance in any exercise

Judo

Men's 60 kg:
  • Cristobal Aburto - defeated in round of 16


Men's 90 kg:
  • Jose Goldschmied
    José Goldschmied
    José Goldschmied Stoupignan is a Mexican judoka. He participated in the José Goldschmied Stoupignan is a [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[judo]]ka. He participated in the...

     - defeated in round of 32


Women's 78+ kg:
  • Vanessa Zambotti
    Vanessa Zambotti
    Vanessa Zambotti-Barreto is a judoka from Mexico.-Biography:Vanessa was born in Parral, Chihuahua what is region of very good wine. She lives in Mexico City and trains judo in CONADE....

     - defeated in round of 16

Modern pentathlon

  • Sergio Salazar Salazar - Men's Modern Pentathlon. 11th place
  • Manuel Pradillo Ortega - Men's Modern Pentathlon. 12th place

Sailing

Tania Elías Calles Wolf

David Mier y Terán Cuevas 

Rosa Irene Campos Pérez

Synchronized swimming

Duet
  • Nara Lorena Falcón Arteaga & Olga Larissa Vargas León - 86.084 pts (16th place, Technical Routine: 42.667 pts, Free Routine: 43.417 pts)

Swimming

Joshua Ilika Brenner
Joshua Ilika Brenner
Joshua Brenner Ilika is a Mexican swimmer, who began swimming at the age of three. He has participated in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.-External links:...

 

Adriana Rebeca Marmolejo Vargas

Juan José Veloz Dávila
Juan Veloz
Juan José Veloz Dávila is an Olympic and national record-holding swimmer for Mexico. He swam for his native country at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympics.-Career:...

 

Javier Díaz González

Leonardo Salinas Saldaña

Alejandro Siqueiros Quiroz

Taekwondo

  • Iridia Salazar
    Iridia Salazar
    Iridia Salazar Blanco is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she received a bronze medal in the 57 kg class....

     - Women's under 57 kg, 3rd place.
  • Oscar Salazar
    Oscar Salazar (taekwondo)
    Óscar Salazar Blanco is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he received a silver medal in the 58 kg class...

     - Men's Under 58 kg, 2nd place.
  • Víctor Estrada
    Victor Estrada
    Victor Manuel Estrada Garibay is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he received a bronze medal in the 80 kg division...


Triathlon

  • Eligio Cervantes Islas - Men's Triathlon, 38th place.
  • Javier Rosas Sierra - Men's Triathlon, 44th place

Volleyball

Women's Beach Competition
  • Mayra García
    Mayra García
    Mayra Aide García Lopez is a female beach volleyball player from Mexico, who won the silver medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, partnering Hilda Gaxiola...

     and Hilda Gaxiola
    Hilda Gaxiola
    Hilda Gaxiola Alvarez is a female beach volleyball player from Mexico, who won the silver medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, partnering Mayra García...

    • Prelims: 0-3
    • Round of 16: Did not qualify

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