{"id":8022,"date":"2021-08-04T22:07:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seminarsonly.com\/news\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2021-08-04T22:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:37:51","slug":"soraya-jimenez-google-doodle-celebrates-soraya-jimenezs-44th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/soraya-jimenez-google-doodle-celebrates-soraya-jimenezs-44th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Soraya Jim\u00e9nez&#8221; : Google Doodle Celebrates Soraya Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s 44th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Soraya Jim\u00e9nez : Google Doodle Celebrates Soraya Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s 44th Birthday<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Soraya Jimenez ( Naucalpan , State of Mexico , 5 of August of 1977 &#8211; City of Mexico , 28 of March of 2013 ) was an halterofilista Mexican. She managed to win a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games , which made her the first Mexican athlete to achieve one of these at the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>After also trying his luck in other sports such as badminton and swimming , between the ages of 11 and 14, Jim\u00e9nez discovered his taste for weightlifting so he began to fully integrate into this sport guided by his teachers who saw potential in it in his abilities to support heavy weights and began to enroll in various tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Soraya began to stand out more and more nationally in weightlifting and her first international title was achieved at the age of 16 when she obtained a third place in weightlifting at the NORCECA Cup in Colorado Springs, United States in the 54 kg category, where she achieved lift 120 total kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996 he achieved his first triumph in a competition, winning gold at the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar International Tournament in Car\u00fapano, Venezuela, where he lifted a total of 170 kilos, setting a Mexican record for the first time.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Google Doodle Celebrates Soraya Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s 44th Birthday<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Today\u2019s Doodle, illustrated by Mexico-based guest artist\u00a0Carolina Mart\u00ednez, celebrates the 44th birthday of Mexican Olympic-champion weightlifter Soraya Jim\u00e9nez, the first Mexican woman to ever win an Olympic gold.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hplogo-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/logos\/doodles\/2021\/soraya-jimenezs-44th-birthday-6753651837108485-2x.png\" alt=\"Soraya Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s 44th Birthday\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soraya Jim\u00e9nez Mendivil was born on this day in 1977 in Naucalpan de Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico. As a child, she swam competitively and played basketball and badminton but ultimately found her true athletic calling in weightlifting. She secured her first podium win at just 17 years old, placing third at the 1994 NORCECA Cup in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Jim\u00e9nez earned her first major championship win at the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar International in Venezuela, where her performance proved her to be a serious contender on the international circuit. The years that followed were decorated with titles from across the Americas, which included a weight-class win in the Central American and Caribbean Games as well as a silver at the Pan American Games. A combination of 1999 championship wins at the NORCECA Cup, the Greek Tofalos International, and the Bulgarian National Championships established Jim\u00e9nez as a favored front-runner heading into the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s athletic career reached its apex when she lifted a staggering total of 497 pounds, taking home the gold in the 58 kg (128 lbs) class weightlifting event at the 2000 Summer Games. Although she retired in 2004, Jim\u00e9nez continued to share her passion for sports as a broadcaster for Televisa, the world\u2019s largest Spanish-language media company.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Soraya Jim\u00e9nez\u2014thanks for using your strength to make history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soraya Jim\u00e9nez : Google Doodle Celebrates Soraya Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s 44th Birthday Soraya Jimenez ( Naucalpan , State of Mexico , 5 of August of 1977 &#8211; City of Mexico , 28&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Soraya Jim\u00e9nez&quot; : Google Doodle Celebrates Soraya Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s 44th Birthday - Seminarsonly.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Soraya Jimenez was an halterofilista Mexican. 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