María Teresa Méndez
Olympic wrestler
Intro | Olympic wrestler | |
Places | Spain | |
is | Wrestler Athlete Amateur wrestler | |
Work field | Sports | |
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Birth | 29 October 1982, Madrid | |
Age | 42 years |
María Teresa Méndez Mayo (born October 29, 1982 in Madrid) is an amateur Spanish wrestler, who played for the women's middleweight category. She won the bronze medal at the 2005 European Wrestling Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, and also, achieved a fifth-place finish at the 2006 World Wrestling Championships in Guangzhou, China.
Mendez qualified for the women's 63 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after winning the silver medal from the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, losing out to Belarus' Volha Khilko. She lost the second preliminary match to France's Lise Golliot-Legrand, who was able to score a total of three points at the end of the second period.