Paola Pliego

Paola Pliego
Full name Maria Paola Pliego Lara
Country represented Mexico
Born (1994-09-27) 27 September 1994
Mexico City, Mexico
Residence Querétaro
Weapon(s) sabre
Hand right-handed
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 60 kg (130 lb)
FIE Ranking current ranking

Maria Paola Pliego Lara, known as Paola Pliego (born September 27, 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican sabre fencer, bronze medallist at the 2015 Pan American Fencing Championships.

Career

Pliego became interested in fencing at the age of four after watching a fencing scene in The Parent Trap.[1] She was too small to train at the time, but persisted in her interest and eventually took courses with her sister. She started to compete when she was a teenager. After she earned her first medals at the Mexican national championships, she trained at the Oregon Fencing Alliance, alongside twice-Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis.[2]

With 150 points Pliego in 2013-2014 season ends as number 1 seeded of FIE's junior women saber ranking [3]

Pliego won the 2013–14 Fencing World Cup in the junior category. In the 2014–15 season, she ranked second at the Cancún satellite tournament. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Championships in Santiago after losing 10–15 in the semifinals to USA's Dagmara Wozniak.[4] She went on to take the silver medal with the team.

References

  1. ↑ "Paola Pliego y la esgrima". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). 16 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "La queretana Paola Pliego, en la cima del esgrima". El Economista (in Spanish). 5 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Ranking - Result & Statistic - FIE - International Fencing Federation".
  4. ↑ María Vega (19 April 2015). "Paola Pliego, bronce en el Panamericano de Chile". Esto.
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