Alvaro Sandoval from Jalisco was officially confirmed by the International Union of Modern Pentathlon, as having been selected for the next Olympic Games.
This marks the achievement for ticket number 18 for Jalisco representatives who will attend the maximum sports event to be held in Tokyo.
“With this we are fulfilling a dream. I feel very happy and grateful to all the people who have always supported me, and also to the Jalisco Code, because I am an athlete made in this institution,” declared the pentathlete, who emerged into the National Olympiad project more than 13 years ago.
Álvaro had his best result in this Olympic event during the 2018 Senior World Championships, where he concluded his participation in seventh place. Afterwards, he continued his process with participations in World Cups and Grand Prix in different parts of the world, managing to qualify for several finals in the individual event.
The modern pentathlon national team is completed by Mariana Arceo, also from Jalisco and Pan-American champion at the Lima Games, as well as Mayan Oliver.
Jalisco’s inventory of Olympic athletes for the Tokyo Games now reaches 18, which is made up of triathletes Irving Pérez, Claudia Rivas and Cecilia Pérez; the athletes Paola Morán, Úrsula Patricia Sánchez and José Luis Santana; divers Alejandra Orozco and Iván García; shooters Alejandra Ramírez and Jorge Orozco; sailors Elena Oetling and Juan Ignacio Pérez; as well as Nuria Diosdado in artistic swimming, Jane Valencia in women's wrestling, Carlos Ortiz in golf, Dafne Navarro in trampoline gymnastics, and the pentathletes Mariana Arceo and Álvaro Sandoval.