Jesús Mena

Jesús Mena Campos ( born May 28, 1968 in Gómez Palacio, Durango ) is a former Mexican diver. He participated in two Olympic Games, winning a medal.

Career

Jesús Mena Campos made ​​his Olympic debut at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988. In the competitions in the water jump he went to both the three- meter board as well as the ten-meter tower. In the competition from the board Mena Campos reached the final round and finished at the end with 598.77 points in seventh place, just behind his fellow countryman Jorge Mondragón Vásquez. In the bronze medal Jesús Mena Campos had a backlog of 66.51 points. In the competition from the tower Mena Campos won the bronze medal. He lay with 594.39 points behind the Chinese Xiong Ni, who won with 637.47 points silver, and the Olympic champion Greg Louganis, which reached 638.61 points. Four years later, Jesús Mena Campos went to at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. During the opening ceremony, he was the standard bearer of the Mexican Olympic team. He joined just competing at the tower, but missed 15th place in the qualifying round of the final battle. Previously, he still had to win the silver medal from the tower at the Pan American Games, which took place last year in Havana.