Ãlvaro Gaxiola
Juan José Álvaro Gaxiola Robles ( born January 26, 1937 in Guadalajara, † August 18, 2003 ibid ) is a former Mexican diver, who competed in three Olympic Games and at age 31 won the silver medal on home soil.
Álvaro Gaxiola made the breakthrough to the world class at the Pan American Games in 1959 in Chicago. While in springboard diving aussprangen three Americans medals among themselves, Gaxiola won the platform diving before Americans Don Harper and his compatriot Juan Botella. At his Olympic debut at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome Gaxiola different from the tower than 20 qualifying. From the 3- meter board, he finished each ranked sixth in qualifying and preliminaries. In the final, he rose and came at the end of the fourth, however, was almost twelve points behind compatriot Juan Botella, won the bronze.
1963 ersprang Gaxiola at the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo again a medal, behind the Americans Robert Webster, he took second place. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 to Gaxiola neither from the board (rank 15) could still qualify from the tower ( 18th place) for the final.
1968 Mexico City hosted the Olympic Games. Of the total of five Olympic medals, which Mexico had won the four previous Olympic Games, four medals had won the diver Joaquin Capilla and Juan Botella. And so the audience expected a lot from the competition. In the two competitions of the ladies there are no Mexican had qualified for the final, in springboard diving reached only Luis de Rivera the final and finished at the end of the fourth. In the final competition of the diver, the diving of the gentlemen, all three Mexicans were able to qualify for the final. Rivera finally finished in seventh place, José Robinson finished fifth and the veteran Álvaro Gaxiola received almost better grades than the Americans and won silver with almost ten points behind the Italians Klaus Dibiasi.
Alvaro Gonzalez had studied at the University of Michigan and trained. His brother Alejandro Gaxiola took in 1960 at the Olympic swimming competitions.