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Mexico entered a full-squad of men's and women's archers. The women's team qualified for the games by virtue of their bronze-medal in the women's recurve team event at the 2023 World Championships in Berlin, Germany. [1]
Mexico has also participated in several Winter Olympic Games since 1928, though has not yet won any medals in the Winter Olympics. Mexican athletes have won a total of 78 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.
Mexico national baseball team qualified for the first time at the Olympics by winning the bronze medal over the United States and securing an outright berth as the highest-ranked squad from the Americas at the 2019 WBSC Premier12 in Tokyo, Japan.
Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account. As of completion of the 2022 Winter Olympics , 12 National Olympic Committees have participated on a standalone basis in all 24 Winter Olympic Games.
During their medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".
The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. [19] [20] Two bronze medals were awarded in each boxing event to the losing semi-finalists, as opposed to them fighting in a third place tie breaker. [21] In gymnastics, two gold medals (and no silver medal) were awarded in the men's horizontal ...
While the Olympic medals are a customary gift for winning athletes, this year's awards also have a special touch to them: Each gold, silver and bronze medal has an 18-gram hexagonal piece of iron ...
This was Mexico's most successful Olympics where it was not the host nation, winning a total of 8 medals (1 gold, 3 silver, and 4 bronze), and surpassing their record from Los Angeles and Sydney by a single medal. Three of these medals were awarded to the athletes in diving, and two in archery for the first time.