Alma Valencia
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| Full name | Alma Jane Valencia Escoto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 October 1990 Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alma Jane Valencia Escoto (born 18 October 1990), also known as Jane Valencia[2][3] or Alma Valencia, is a Mexican freestyle wrestler. In the 55 kg category, she won the silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games,[4] having finished seventh in 2011. She won three bronze medals at the Pan American Wrestling Championships in 2010, 2011 and 2013. She also won a silver and gold medal at the 2010 and 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games respectively, both in the 55 kg category.
Valencia qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's freestyle 57 kg category at the 2020 Pan American Qualification Tournament in Ottawa, Canada.[5]
In October 2021, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's 57 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway.[6]
Valencia won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.[7] She competed at the 2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[8] She was eliminated in her second match by Hannah Taylor of Canada.[8]
Academic/Professional life
[edit]Valencia is a medical doctor, who studied in Mexico, USA and Puerto Rico, graduating from Mexico's Guadalajara Lamar Universidad medical school in the spring of 2019.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Valencia is in a relationship with Puerto Rican wrestler Jaime Espinal. Their first daughter Joy Espinal Valencia was born on 31 May 2017.[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "VALENCIA ESCOTO Alma Jane". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 October 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- 1 2 Olanowski, Eric (9 April 2020). "Mexico's Valencia Juggles Family, Med School En Route to Olympic Games". United World Wrestling.
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- ↑ "La gran hazaña de Jane Valencia en la lucha olímpica" [Jane Valencia's Great Feat in Olympic Wrestling]. Superluchas (in Spanish). 18 March 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ "Histórica Plata para la Lucha Femenil Mexicana en los Juegos Panamericanos Toronto 2015" [Historic Silver for Mexican Women's Wrestling at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games]. Superluchas (in Spanish). 17 July 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
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- ↑ "México suma una plaza para los Juegos Olímpicos en Lucha" [Mexico adds a wrestling spot for the Olympics]. Marca (in Spanish). Mexico. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ↑ "2021 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
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- ↑ Burke, Patrick (7 May 2022). "Hildebrandt earns seventh Pan American Championships wrestling title". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
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- 1 2 "2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
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- ↑ "¡Jaime Espinal y su compañera Alma presentan a su bebita Joy!" [Jaime Espinal and his partner Alma introduce their baby girl, Joy!]. Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
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External links
[edit]- Alma Jane Valencia Escoto at United World Wrestling
- Alma Jane Valencia Escoto at the International Wrestling Database
- Alma Jane Valencia Escoto at Olympics.com
- Alma Valencia at Olympedia
- Alma Valencia at InterSportStats
- Jane Valencia Escoto on Facebook
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