World Judo Day: Prisca Awiti, the judoka who inspired Mexico

Mexico. – Within the framework of the World Judo Day, We remember the Mexican judoka who made us vibrate just three months ago with her silver medal in the Olympic Games: Prisca Awiti, who made history in Paris 2024.

Prisca surprised everyone on July 30 of this year, by winning his fights in Quarterfinals and Semifinalsthus ensuring a medal for Mexico in this discipline. Although in the end it was silver, in our country it was celebrated as if it were gold.

The story of He said It’s inspiring. Born in England, to a Kenyan father and a Mexican mother, she decided to represent Mexico from 2017ensuring that the joy, strength and heart of the Mexican athletes were their main motivation for making that decision.

Paris 2024 It was his second participation in Olympicsgiven that He said had competed in Tokio 2020where he fell in the first rounds. That experience served as preparation, because in the Pan American Championships 2021 and 2023 he obtained silver medals and, prior to the Olympics 2024, won a bronze medal in the 2023 Pan American Games.

Awiti made history by winning the first judo medal for Mexico. In addition, this medal represented the 25th silver medal and the 75th overall for the country in Olympic history. Thus, Prisca joined great Mexican women such as Soraya Jiménez, Ana Gabriela Guevara, María del Rosario Espinoza, Iridia Salazar, and Paola Espinoza, who have also won medals in the Olympic Games.