Paola Espinosa
Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez ( born July 31, 1986 in La Paz, Mexico) is a Mexican Water Diving. It starts both in art and in diving as well as in the 3-meter and 10-meter synchronized diving. She won medals at World Championships, Olympic Games and Pan American Games.
Your first big success was achieved by Paola Espinosa at the World Swimming Championships in 2003 in Barcelona. Together with Laura Sánchez, she won a bronze medal in synchronized diving from the 3 m board. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she finished fifth in both synchronous competitions; from 3 m board on the side of Laura Sánchez, from the 10 m tower with Jashia Luna. They also launched in two individual events and finished each ranked twelfth. In the swimming world championships in 2005 in Montreal, they again reached the finals in both synchronous competitions, she was fourth on 3-meter board and sixth from the 10 m tower. In 2007 she won at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro three gold medals and one silver medal, including gold in the individual competitions from the board and from the tower. In the swimming world championships in 2007 in Melbourne she finished in seventh place three times: in both synchronous and competitions from the tower.
A special honor was her plotted 2008; at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games she was allowed to wear the flag of Mexico in the Beijing Olympic Stadium. A few days later, she also won the first medal for Mexico in synchronized diving from the tower she won along with Tatiana Ortiz the bronze medal.
At the World Championships in Rome, she won the gold medal from the 10 m tower and was thus the first World Champion in front of the favorite Chinese women Ruolin Chen and Li Kang. Also in the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai they could win a medal, this time bronze from the tower behind the Chinese women Ruolin Chen and Hu Yadan. Very successful she was at the Pan American Games 2011 in Guadalajara. In her home country, she won three gold medals in the individual from the tower, with Laura Sánchez in the 3 -meter synchronized diving and Tatiana Ortiz in the 10 -meter synchronized diving and bronze of the 3 -meter board.