Heidy Juárez
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Full name | Heidy Pinto | ||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Guatemala | ||||||||||||||||||
Born | Guatemala City, Guatemala |
14 May 1977 ||||||||||||||||||
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Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 67 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Heidy Marleny Juárez Guzmán (born May 14, 1977 in Los Angeles City) is a Guatemalan taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's welterweight category.[1] She picked up a total of eight medals in her career, including a silver from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a bronze from the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships in Manila, Philippines, and finished fourth in the 67-kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics, narrowly missing a chance to become Guatemala's first ever Olympic medalist in history.[2][3]
Juarez qualified for the Guatemalan squad in the women's welterweight class (67 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing second behind Puerto Rico's Ineabelle Díaz and granting a berth from the Pan American Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Querétaro, Mexico.[4][5] She opened her match with a superb 7–0 victory over Australia's Caroline Bartasek, before dropping a 4–6 decision to the local favorite Elisavet Mystakidou of Greece by the powerful commotion of the home crowd in the quarterfinals.[6] In the repechage rounds, Juarez came strong from her premature exit to edge New Zealand's Verina Wihongi 4–1, and then yielded her revenge over Puerto Rican fighter Ineabelle Díaz for a 5–2 victory to mount a chance for Guatemala's first ever Olympic medal, but she failed to salvage it in a 2–5 defeat to South Korea's Hwang Kyung-seon.[3][7][8]
At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Juarez improved her feat from a fourth-place Olympic finish by picking up a silver medal in the women's 67-kg division, losing the final 2–8 to Canada's Karine Sergerie.[2][9]
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- Guatemalan taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Guatemala
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Guatemala
- Sportspeople from Guatemala City
- Female taekwondo practitioners
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