Alma Valencia
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| Full name | Alma Jane Valencia Escoto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 October 1990 Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alma Jane Valencia Escoto (born 18 October 1990) is a Mexican freestyle wrestler. In the 55 kg category, she won the silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games,[2] having finished seventh in 2011. She won three bronze medals at the Pan American Wrestling Championships in 2010, 2011 and 2013. She also won a silver and gold medal at the 2010 and 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games respectively, both in the 55 kg category.
Valencia qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's freestyle 57 kg category at the 2020 Pan American Qualification Tournament in Ottawa, Canada.[3]
In October 2021, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's 57 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway.[4]
Valencia won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.[5] She competed at the 2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[6] She was eliminated in her second match by Hannah Taylor of Canada.[6]
Academic/Professional life
[edit | edit source]Valencia is a medical doctor, who studied in Mexico, USA and Puerto Rico, graduating from Mexico's Guadalajara Lamar Universidad medical school in the spring of 2019. [7]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Valencia is in a relationship with Puerto Rican wrestler Jaime Espinal. Their first daughter Joy Espinal Valencia was born on 31 May 2017.[8]
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External links
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- Mexican female sport wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers for Mexico
- Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games silver medalists in wrestling
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico
- Wrestlers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Wrestlers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in wrestling
- Sportspeople from Zapopan
- 21st-century Mexican sportswomen
- Mexican martial arts biography stubs
- North American sport wrestler stubs