Mexico at the Olympics
| Mexico at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | MEX |
| NOC | Mexican Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 55th |
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| Winter appearances | |
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 not yet won any medals in the Winter Olympics.
At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Gustavo Huet made history as the first Mexican athlete to win an Olympic medal officially for Mexico, earning silver in the men's 50 metres small-bore rifle prone shooting event.[1] However, at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Mexican athletes won a bronze medal in the polo event, consisting of the three brothers Eustaquio, Manuel and Pablo Escandón. Since an American athlete, Guillermo Hayden Wright,[2] was also part of the team, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially attributes this medal not to Mexico, but to a mixed team.[3]
At the 1948 Summer Olympics, Mexico claimed its first Olympic gold medals in equestrian jumping, where both the individual and team titles were decided based on the same competition results.[1]
Mexican athletes have won a total of 77 medals, with diving as the top medal-producing sport.[1]
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 on one occasion.
| Games | Host city | Dates | Nations | Participants | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 Summer Olympics | Mexico City | 12 October - 27 October | 112 | 5,516 | 172 |
Medals
Host country
Medals by Summer Games
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
.svg.png){kind=small} 1896 Athens |
did not participate | |||||
 1900 Paris |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0[a] | 0 | – |
 1904 St. Louis |
did not participate | |||||
 1908 London
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 1912 Stockholm
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.svg.png){kind=small} 1920 Antwerp
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| 1924 Paris |
13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1928 Amsterdam |
30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1932 Los Angeles |
73 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 21 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 1936 Berlin |
32 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 28 |
| 1948 London |
88 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 17 |
 1952 Helsinki |
64 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 34 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 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 | 2 | 4 | 36 |
| 2012 London |
102 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 38 |
 2016 Rio de Janeiro |
125 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 61 |
| 2020 Tokyo |
164 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 84 |
 2024 Paris |
107 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 65 |
| 2028 Los Angeles |
future event | |||||
| 2032 Brisbane
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| Total (25/30) | 2,233 | 13 | 27 | 37 | 77 | 52 |
- a In the polo tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the bronze medal was won by a mixed team composed almost entirely of Mexican players, with the exception of one American athlete Guillermo Hayden Wright. He was part of the Mexican polo team, alongside brothers Eustaquio, Manuel and Pablo Escandón.[2] Although the team was predominantly Mexican, the IOC officially attributes this medal to a Mixed Team rather than to Mexico in its records.[3]
Medals by Winter Games
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 Chamonix |
did not participate | |||||
.svg.png){kind=small} 1928 St. Moritz |
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1932 Lake Placid |
did not participate | |||||
| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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| 1948 St. Moritz
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 1952 Oslo
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| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
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| 1960 Squaw Valley
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 1964 Innsbruck
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| 1968 Grenoble
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| 1972 Sapporo
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| 1976 Innsbruck
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| 1980 Lake Placid
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.svg.png){kind=small} 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 | – |
| 2018 Pyeongchang |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2022 Beijing |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2026 Milano Cortina |
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2030 French Alps |
future event | |||||
| 2034 Utah
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| Total (11/25) | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
Medals by Summer Sport
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 |
 Boxing | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 |
 Taekwondo | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
 Equestrian | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
 Diving | 1 | 8 | 8 | 17 |
 Weightlifting | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
 Football | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Swimming | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Archery | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Cycling | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Fencing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Judo | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Shooting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Wrestling | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Basketball | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Modern pentathlon | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Polo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | 13 | 27 | 37 | 77 |
List of medalists
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Summer Olympics
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Multiple Mexican Olympic medalists
Joaquín Capilla is the Mexican athlete with the most medals, four, and the first Mexican athlete to obtain 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.
In 2016, María Espinoza became the first Mexican female athlete to win a medal in three consecutive games.
| Rank | Athlete | Sex | Sport | Games | 
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Total |
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| 1 | Joaquín Capilla | M | Diving
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1956 Melbourne
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1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1952 Helsinki
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0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 1948 London
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0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Humberto Mariles | M | Equestrian
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1948 London
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2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | María Espinoza | F | Taekwondo
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2008 Beijing
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1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro
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0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 2012 London
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0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Rubén Uriza | M | Equestrian
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1948 London
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1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Raúl González | M | Athletics
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1984 Los Angeles
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1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 6 | Germán Sánchez | M | Diving
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2012 London
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0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro
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0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 7 | Paola Espinosa | F | 2012 London
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0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2008 Beijing
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0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Alejandra Orozco | F | 2012 London
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0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2020 Tokyo
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0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Osmar Olvera | M | 2024 Paris
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0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 10 | Joaquín Pérez | M | Equestrian
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1980 Moscow
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0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Alejandra Valencia | F | Archery
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2020 Tokyo
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0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2024 Paris
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0 | 0 | 1 |
See also
- List of flag bearers for Mexico at the Olympics
- Category: Olympic competitors for Mexico
- Mexico at the Paralympics
- Sport in Mexico
References
- ^ a b c d "Mexico - NOC Profile". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 2024. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. Retrieved 2026-02-14.
- ^ a b "William Wright". Olympedia. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
The identity of the 1900 US polo player named Wright is not certain. We believe he is the William Hayden Wright who won the 1898-99 Paris International and the Paris Open, but some sources have him listed as Guillermo Wright, not too surprising as the rest of his 1900 polo team was Mexican. Some French sources list him as J. H. Wright, who may be either James Hayden Wright, a Boston architect who lived in Paris in 1900, or John Harvey Wright, an American living in Pau in the south of France, who was an amateur jockey and known to be a polo player. A J. H. Wright played in the Paris Cup tournament in 1898 at the Bagatelle Polo Club in Paris, but further information is lacking.
- ^ a b "PARIS 1900 POLO MEN RESULTS". International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved February 14, 2026.
- ^ a b "Olympic Analytics – Mexico (MEX)". olympanalyt.com. Olympic Analytics. 2024. Retrieved 2026-02-14.
- ^ a b "Olympedia – Mexico (MEX)". olympedia.org. Olympedia. 2026. Retrieved 2026-02-14.
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