The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been full of emotions for Mexico: the Mexican archery team made history, while Alexa Moreno fell short of the artistic gymnastics final.
The 2024 Olympic Games scheduled for July 29 include diving, archery, surfing, swimming, sailing, cycling and boxing.
Schedule and results for July 29: How did Mexican athletes fare today in Paris 2024?
This Monday, July 29, Mexicans sought another opportunity to win an Olympic medal.
In summary, the best results have been in rowing: Alexis López and Miguel Carballo advanced to the semi-finals.
However, in the 10-meter synchronized platform diving, Kevin Berlin and Randal Willars came close to winning bronze, but finished fourth.
Alan Cleland, one of the favourites, was eliminated in surfing with one wave missing that never came to give him the points he needed.
Surfing: Alan Cleland narrowly missed out on the quarter-finals
- Surf, 11:00 AM (Central Mexico) Men’s Shortboard
- Alan Cleland, Round 3, Heat 4, 12:48pm.
Alan Cleland took on Frenchman Joan Duru on the ‘skull wall’, the heavy and fearsome wave at Teahupo’o in Tahiti.
The Mexican had a score of 15.17, compared to the Frenchman’s 18.13, he needed 9.96 to reach the quarter-finals, but that wave that would take him to the next round did not arrive, so he says goodbye to Paris 2024.
The Mexican born in Colima had no choice but to congratulate Duru, his rival, and acknowledge that he was surpassed in the Olympic Games event.
Candle: Mariana Aguilar
After the second round, Mariana Aguilar was ranked within the top ten, so she could qualify for the quarterfinals.
The Mexican athlete started in 12th place in the overall results, after two of the 20 races.
In sailing, the highest ranked boat in the opening series advances to the final and the boats ranked 2nd and 3rd advance to the semi-final, while only the boats ranked 4th to 10th advance to the quarter-finals.
Men’s archery team: Mexico eliminated in the round of 16
- Archery, 1:30 AM (Central Mexico Time) team round of 16: Matías Grande, Bruno Martínez and Carlos Rojas face Japan in the first round.
The Mexican men’s archery team (Matías Grande, Javier Rojas and Bruno Martínez) faced Japan (FURUKAWA Takaharu, NAKANISHI Junya, SAITO Fumiyaen) in the 1/8 elimination round.
Japan defeated Mexico by a score of 5-1 and advanced to the quarterfinals, where they were defeated by the Republic of Korea 6-0, the team that at the end of the day took home the gold.
Rowing: Mexican team goes to the semifinals
- Rowing, 2:40 AM (Central Mexico) Lightweight double sculls- repechage
- Alexis Lopez and Miguel Carballo
The Mexican team finished third in its repechage round with a time of 6:47.60, behind Ukraine’s 6:46.05 and Belgium’s 6:42.99, meaning Alexis López and Miguel Carballo are qualified for the semi-finals.
With a time of 6:47.60, the Mexican rowing duo, Alexis López and Miguel Carballo, stood out by finishing third in their repechage round.
They secured their passage to the next phase! 🚣♂️🇲🇽#WeAreAllOlympians pic.twitter.com/LMGXxIO5RU— Mexican Olympic Committee (@COM_Mexico) July 29, 2024
Synchronized diving: Mexicans close to bronze
- Synchronized Diving 3:00 AM (Central Mexico Time) 10 meter platform – direct final
- Kevin Berlin and Randal Willars
The divers finished their participation in fourth place, with 418.65, behind the Canadians (WIENS Rylan and ZSOMBOR-MURRAY Nathan), who obtained a score of 422.13.
Silver went to Great Britain (DALEY Thomas and WILLIAMS Noah), who achieved 463.44, but far behind the gold of China (LIAN Junjie and YANG Hao), who won with 490.35.
Swimming: Mexican finishes in 21st place
- Swimming, 3:13 AM (Central Mexico) Women’s 100m backstroke
Celia Pulido ended her participation in Paris 2024: the Mexican was seventh in her heat with a time of 1:01.10 in the 100-meter backstroke event, a category in which the fastest was the American BERKOFF Katharine (57.99).
In the overall standings, Celia finished in 21st place, only the 16 fastest in the series qualify for the semi-finals.
Boxing: Miguel Angel Martinez eliminated in the round of 16
- Boxing, 3:48 AM (Central Mexico time) round of 16, 63.5 kg men’s category
- Miguel Angel Martinez vs. Ruslan Abdullaev
Mexican Miguel Ángel Martínez was eliminated in Olympic boxing by Ruslan Abdullaev (Uzbekistan) who won by points (5-0) in the preliminary round of the round of 16.
Ruslan Abdullaev advanced to the quarterfinals, where he fights Canadian SANFORD Wyatt on August 1.
Mountain biking: Mexican finishes 23rd
- Mountain biking, 6:10 AM (Central Mexico time) Men’s cross country
Adair Gutierrez finished the race in 23rd place, with a time of 1:31:42. Gold went to Great Britain: PIDCOCK Thomas clocked 1:26:22; followed by Frenchman KORETZKY Victor (1:26:31) and South African HATHERLY Alan (1:26:33).
Medal table: How is Mexico doing at the 2024 Olympic Games?
Mexico takes a medal to Paris 2024: the women’s archery team won bronze with Ana Paula Vázquez, Alejandra Valencia and Ángela Ruiz, who on July 28 won bronze by beating the Netherlands team in the third-place round with a score of 6-2.
Valencia won another bronze in the mixed team event at Tokyo 2020 alongside Luis Álvarez and joins María Espinoza (gold, silver and bronze in taekwondo), Paola Espinosa (silver and bronze in springboard diving) and Alejandra Orozco (silver and bronze in springboard diving).
Mexican archery also made it onto the podium in London 2012 with silver for Aida Román and bronze for Mariana Avitia. The third podium in this sport for Mexico was achieved in London 2012 by Mariana Avitia with another third place.
General Olympic Games schedule: What sports are on today?
This is the list of sports that can be enjoyed this Monday, July 29, in which no Mexican athletes are participating. The day starts at 0:30 hours and ends at 15:48 Central Mexico time.
- Badminton: mixed doubles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, men’s singles, women’s doubles.
- Handball: Men, preliminary round of group A
- Fencing: Women’s Individual Sabre
- Volleyball: women, preliminary round, group C
- Beach volleyball: men’s preliminary group
- Air pistol shooting: mixed teams, qualification
- Fencing: Men’s and Women’s Individual
- Men’s trap shooting: classification
- Pistol shooting: women’s 10 metres.
- Rowing: Women’s single sculls, semi-finals
- Field hockey: men’s group B and women’s group
- Judo: women’s and men’s rounds
- Table tennis: men’s and women’s singles
- Basketball: group stage, women
- Equestrian: individual and team classification, final
- Swimming: Women’s 400m individual medley
- Skateboarding: Men’s Preliminary Qualifiers
- Tenis: individual
- Rugby 7: group matches
- Waterpolo: women’s preliminary group round
Where to watch the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Mexico?
Mexico has multiple ways to follow the Mexicans at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which can be done on open television or on a streaming platform.
The television channels that broadcast the competitions are the following:
- Where to watch live: Channel 5 and Channel 9
- Schedule: From 6:00 a.m., Central Mexico Time
- Broadcasts: July 26th – August 11th
It is also available on the Claro Video signal via the Internet, either through its official application or the various Claro Sports YouTube channels.
With information from EFE.
