Mexico at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Mexico competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The country sent 102 athletes (76 men and 26 women) and competed in 71 events in 18 sports.

Medalists

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!Medal

!Name

!Sport

!Event

!Date

| || || Athletics || Men's 50 kilometres walk || 7 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

! width=180|Sport

! width=55|Men

! width=55|Women

! width=55|Total

| align=left|Archery

| 3 || 1 || 4

| align=left|Athletics

| 18 || 6 || 24

| align=left|Boxing

| 4 || – || 4

| align=left|Canoeing

| 4 || 0 || 4

| align=left|Cycling

| 5 || 0 || 5

| align=left|Diving

| 4 || 4 || 8

| align=left|Equestrian

| 6 || 0 || 6

| align=left|Football

| 16 || – || 16

| align=left|Gymnastics

| 1 || 1 || 2

| align=left|Judo

| 1 || 0 || 1

| align=left|Modern pentathlon

| 3 || – || 3

| align=left|Rowing

| 3 || 2 || 5

| align=left|Sailing

| 1 || 2 || 3

| align=left|Shooting

| 1 || 0 || 1

| align=left|Swimming

| 2 || 5 || 7

| align=left|Synchronized swimming

| – || 3 || 3

| align=left|Tennis

| 2 || 2 || 4

| align=left|Wrestling

| 2 || – || 2

! Total || 76 || 26 || 102

Archery

In its fourth Olympic archery competition, Mexico entered three men and one woman. Only one of the individuals advanced to the elimination rounds, where he was defeated in the first match. The men's team missed the team round by one ranking. They were 4 points behind the 16th place team.

Women's Individual Competition:

Aurora Breton — Ranking round, 45th place (0-0)

Men's Individual Competition:

José Anchondo — Round of 32, 31st place (0-1)
Ricardo Rojas — Ranking round, 37th place (0-0)
Omar Bustani — Ranking round, 67th place (0-0)

Men's Team Competition:

Anchondo, Rojas, and Bustani — Ranking round, 17th place (0-0)

Athletics

Men's 5,000 metres

Ignacio Fragoso — 14.16,14 (→ 42nd place)

Men's 10,000 metres

Arturo Barrios

:* Heat — 28:28.26

:* Final — 28:17.79 (→ 5th place)

Germán Silva

:* Heat — 28:13.72

:* Final — 28:20.19 (→ 6th place)

Armando Quintanilla

:* Heat — 28:23.76

:* Final — 28:48.05(→ 16th place)

Men's Marathon

Isidro Rico — 2:18.52 (→ 29th place)
Dionicio Cerón — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

Genaro Rojas, Eduardo Nava, Raymundo Escalante, Herman Adam and Alejandro Cárdenas

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

Raymundo Escalante, Eduardo Nava, Luis Karin Toledo, and Juan Vallin Gutierrez

:* Heat — 3:05.75 (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk

Daniel Garcia — 1:25:35 (→ 7th place)
Joel Sánchez — 1:30:12 (→ 21st place)
Ernesto Canto — 1:33:51 (→ 29th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

Carlos Mercenario — 3:52:09 (→ 16x16px Silver Medal)
Miguel Rodríguez — 3:58:26 (→ 8th place)
Germán Sánchez — DSQ (→ no ranking)

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Women's 10,000 metres

María Luisa Servín

:* Heat — 33:42.74 (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon

Olga Appell — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10 km Walk

Maricela Chávez

:* Final — 48:39 (→ 28th place)

Eva Machuca

:* Final — 50:02 (→ 30th place)

Graciela Mendoza

:* Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's High Jump

Cristina Fink

:* Qualification — 1.83 m (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Men's Flyweight (— 51 kg)

Narciso González

:*First Round — Lost to Benjamin Mwangata (TAN), RSCH-3 (01:43)

Men's Bantamweight (— 54 kg)

Javier Calderón

:*First Round — Defeated Benjamin Ngaruiya (KEN), 16:4

:*Second Round — Lost to Remigio Molina (ARG), 4:5

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

Edgar Ruiz

:*First Round — Lost to Leonard Doroftei (ROM), 4:24

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

Manuel Verde

:*First Round — Lost to Patrice Aouissi (FRA), RSCH-3 (01:46)

Canoeing

Cycling

Five male cyclists represented Mexico in 1992.

;Men's 1 km time trial

César Muciño

;Men's team pursuit

Arturo García
César Muciño
Jesús Vázquez
Marco Zaragoza

;Men's points race

Manuel Youshimatz

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

Jorge Mondragón

:* Preliminary Round — 384.45 points

:* Final — 604.14 points (→ 6th place)

Fernando Platas

:* Preliminary Round — 355.47 points (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 10m Platform

Alberto Acosta

:* Preliminary Round — 398.55 points

:*Final — 482.28 points (→ 11th place)

Jesús Mena

:* Preliminary Round — 370.47 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

María Elena Romero

:* Preliminary Round — 269.34 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Ana Ayala

:* Preliminary Round — 249.03 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Women's 10m Platform

María Alcalá

:*Final — 394.35 points (→ 6th place)

Macarena Alexanderson

:*Preliminary Round — 286.59 points (→ 13th place)

Equestrianism

Football

Men's team competition

Preliminary round (group D)

:* Drew with Denmark (1-1)

:* Drew with Australia (1-1)

:* Drew with Ghana (1-1) → did not advance

Team roster

:*( 1.) José Alberto Guadarrama

:*( 2.) Ricardo Cadena

:*( 3.) Manuel Vidrio

:*( 4.) Alberto Macías

:*( 5.) Silviano Delgado

:*( 6.) Joaquín Hernández

:*( 7.) José Agustín Morales

:*( 8.) David Rangel

:*( 9.) Francisco Rotllán

:*(10.) Jorge Castañeda

:*(11.) Damián Álvarez

:*(12.) Miguel Fuentes

:*(13.) Camilo Romero

:*(14.) Carlos López

:*(15.) José Eduardo Pavez

:*(16.) Mario Arteaga

:*(17.) Pedro Pineda

:*(18.) Ángel Lemus

:*(19.) Ignacio Vázquez

:*(20.) Ángel Maldonado

Head coach: Óscar Iparraguirre

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Mexico in 1992.

;Individual

Iván Ortega
Alejandro Yrizar
Alberto Félix

;Team

Iván Ortega
Alejandro Yrizar
Alberto Félix

Rowing

Sailing

Women's 470 Class

Margarita Pazos and Karla Gutiérrez

:* Final Ranking — 126 points (→ 17th place)

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

Rodrigo González

:* Heat — 23.52 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

Rodrigo González

:* Heat — 51.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

Javier Careaga

:* Heat — 1:03.45 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

Javier Careaga

:* Heat — 2:15.59

:* B-Final — 2:16.55 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle

Laura Sánchez

:* Heat — 4:23.87 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Erika González

:* Heat — 4:32.06 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 800m Freestyle

Laura Sánchez

:* Heat — 9:10.31 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Erika González

:* Heat — 9:17.18 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

Gabriela Gaja

:* Heat — 1:04.84 (→ did not advance, 40th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Heike Koerner, Ana Mendoza, Gabriela Gaja, and Laura Sánchez

:* Heat — 4:26.73 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Synchronized Swimming

Three synchronized swimmers represented Mexico in 1992.

;Women's solo

Sonia Cárdeñas
Elizabeth Cervantes
Lourdes Olivera

;Women's duet

Sonia Cárdeñas
Lourdes Olivera

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Francisco Maciel

:* First round — Lost to Jakob Hlasek (Switzerland) 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 2-6

Leonardo Lavalle

:* First round — Defeated Jan Siemerink (Netherlands) 6-4, 6-4, 6-2

:* Second round — Defeated Henri Leconte (France) 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 10-8

:* Third round — Defeated Carl-Uwe Steeb (Germany) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2

:* Quarterfinals — Lost to Jordi Arrese (Spain) 1-6, 6-7, 1-6

Men's Doubles Competition

Leonardo Lavalle and Francisco Maciel

:* First round — Lost to Owen Casey and Eoin Collins (Ireland) 6-7, 4-6, retired

Women's Singles Competition

Lupita Novelo

:* First Round — Lost to Steffi Graf (Germany) 1-6 1-6