Tania Elías Calles
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| Full name | Tania Elías Calles Wolf | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 17, 1979 (age 45) Mexico City, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class(es) | Europe, ILCA 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club |  Club Náutico Avándaro | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tania Elías Calles Wolf (born April 17, 1979 in Mexico City) is a Mexican sailor. She is the great-granddaughter of general Plutarco Elías Calles. At 6 years old she started in the sport of sailing and she has competed at four Olympic Games.[1]
Olympic Games
[edit]She participated in the Olympics four times from 2000 to 2012, but failed to win a single medal. [2]
Central American and Caribbean Games
[edit]Her main career highlight was winning gold at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games.[citation needed]
During the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic she won the gold medal in the Radial category.. In 2005 she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Europe. In 2006 she won the bronze medal at the Women's Laser Radial World Championship, as well as the gold medal at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games. In 2007, she finished second at the World Championship held in Portugal, winning a spot to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. She won a silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and finished 13th at the Olympic Games in 2008. She established a World Guinness Record to seek sponsorships in March 2010 for the longest distance sailed unattended in a dinghy (300 nm). In 2011, at the World Championships in Perth, Australia she obtained qualification to the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3] At the London Games she finished in 10th place in the women's laser radial.[4] She is a member of the athlete commission for the World Antidoping Agency since 2012 and the representative for high performance athletes at her National Antidoping Committee. Writer and author of her autobiography called "The Challenge, in pursuit of Olympic Glory" released in the summer of 2013.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tania Elías". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016.
Full name: Tania Elías Calles Wolf
- ^ "Tania Elías Calles". Olympics.com. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Aumentan los clasificados latinoamericanos a Londres 2012 Archived 2014-03-16 at the Wayback Machine "El uruguayo Alejandro Foglia terminó 18º en Láser, mientras que en femenino la mexicana Tania Elías Calles Wolf alcanzó un meritorio octavo puesto."
- ^ "London 2012 Laser Radial - One Person Dinghy women Results - Olympic sailing". Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
External links
[edit]- Tania Elias Calles at World Sailing
- Tania Elias Calles at Olympics.com
- Tania Elías at Olympedia
- Biografia de Tania Elías Calles at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-03-15) (in Spanish)
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