• May 2, 2024

The Olympic champion in Sydney 2000, Soraya Jiménez , a specialist in weightlifting, died this March 28 because of a myocardial infarction at the age of 36 years.

Soraya Jiménez was born on August 5, 1977 in Mexico City, and was the first Mexican woman to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

According to information from Excelsior online, the weightlifter is the second tricolor medalist who dies in recent months, since Noé Hernández , winner of the Silver of the 20-kilometer march in Sydney, also lost his life. .

How was your health?

There are many sufferings and affectations that Soraya Jiménez experienced, such as:

1. 14 operations on the left leg.

2. Loss of lung right in 2007.

3. Two relapses of influenza, where a coma that lasted 15 days was presented.

4. Five cardiorespiratory arrest.

One of the phrases to remember this Olympic winner is what she expressed for the magazine Process in May 2010: "If I'm going to die, let it be in my house." Aware of everything about the disease that ended Soraya's life, in our special

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