| "> | | | | sportswomen to the Pan American Games in Mexico |
| Ana Guevara | | | | City. They competed in athletics, basketball, diving, |
| Did you know- In Edmonton (Canada), Mexico's runner | | | | equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, |
| Ana Guevara picked up a bronze medal in the | | | | synchronized swimming, tennis, and volleyball. They |
| women's 400m (49,97 seconds) in the IAAF World | | | | won five medals (1 silver and 4 bronze). On the other |
| Championships in 2001. | | | | hand, the best athletes were: Blanca Estrada (fencing), |
| Blanca Garcia | | | | Alejandra Vallejo (tennis), Blanca Garcia (volleyball), and |
| Did you know- By the late and early 1970s, Mexico's | | | | Cristina Betancourt (basketball). During the 1975 |
| athlete Blanca Garcia was one of the most prominent | | | | Games, the women's basketball squad of Mexico, 6th |
| volleyball players in the Western Hemisphere, together | | | | in the FIBA World Cup in 1975, was runner-up (behind |
| with Luisa Fuentes (Peru) and Mercedes Pérez | | | | the United States). |
| (Cuba). At the 1968 Mexico Olympics, she was one of | | | | Mexico |
| the best players. Two years later, by 1970, the | | | | Did you know- The nation's tennis player Rosa Maria |
| women's volleyball team from Mexico, under the | | | | Reyes captured three continental titles in the Pan |
| leadership of Blanca Garcia, captured the gold medal in | | | | American Games: Mexico City 1955 (doubles & |
| the Central American and Caribbean Games in | | | | singles) and Chicago 1959 (doubles). She also earned |
| Panama City. In the gold-medal game, Mexico had | | | | the gold medal in the women's doubles, with Yolanda |
| defeated Cuba. | | | | Ramírez, at the VIII Central American and Caribbean |
| Enriqueta Basilio | | | | Games in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1959. |
| Did you know- By 1968, Enriqueta Basilio made | | | | Soraya Mendivil |
| international headlines when she carried the Olympic | | | | Did you know- Soraya Mendivil was one of |
| flame into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the | | | | weightlifting's greatest performers in the 2000s. Mexico |
| Olympic Games in Mexico City. Mexico's hurdler Basilio | | | | 's weightlifter Mendivil won the gold medal in the |
| was the first woman to carry the Olympic flame. | | | | women's 58-kilogram category at the 2000 Summer |
| Maria Teresa Ramirez | | | | Games in Sydney (Australia). |
| Did you know- Swimmer Maria Teresa Ramírez | | | | Yolanda Ramírez |
| picked up a bronze medal in the women's 800m at the | | | | Did you know- In 1963, for the third time in a row, |
| 1968 Mexico Olympic Games. She was one of the | | | | Yolanda Ramírez became Pan American champion |
| few female swimmers in Latin America to win an | | | | (mixed) in the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo |
| Olympic medal, along with Jeanette Campbell, Silvia | | | | (Brazil). In addition, Miss Ramírez captured a gold |
| Poll, Georgina Bardach, and Claudia Poll. By the early | | | | medal in the women's doubles in the Continental |
| 1970s, she had won many gold medals at the XI | | | | Games in the United Mexican States in the late 50s. |
| Central American and Caribbean Games. | | | | From 1954 to 1959, she had won four medals in the |
| Pan American Games | | | | Central American and Caribbean Games. By 1958, she |
| Did you know- Between October 12 and October 26, | | | | and Rosie Reyes made history when they won the |
| the Mexican Olympic Committee sent a team of 77 | | | | women's doubles at the French Open in Paris. |