These are the women who will shape the sport in 2023

2023 was a milestone year for women’s sports in Mexico and around the world, with the celebration of several international competitions and unforgettable performances, from the Women’s World Cup, the Pan American Games and the creation of the first professional softball league in all of Latin America . America.

To celebrate the women who have taken the sporting world by storm this year, here are some athletes, mainly at national and international levels:

Alex Moreno

Perhaps the most successful gymnast in Mexican history, Alexa Morena, made her triumphant return after a recovery process from a knee injury he suffered in 2022. Moreno managed to get the ticket for these Third Olympic Games in October, the month in which she also took fourth place at the World Equestrian Gymnastics Championships.

The Mexican-born athlete shone again in equestrian sports, where she continues to surprise the world of the Olympic Games and in which she has already been crowned in world competitions, recalling the bronze medal at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first podium for a Mexican gymnast . Meanwhile, at the recent Tokyo 2020 Games, she was just one place away from the medals, making her one of the continent’s top competitors.

At the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which took place in Paris, he also won a gold medal in his field and then bronze in the country mode. In Central America he was again dominated by the national delegation of which he was the official standard bearer, after receiving gold in the vault and two more medals in gymnastics.

Iga Swaatek

The Polish Iga Swiatek, 22 years old, was named the best player of the season for the second time in a row during the WTA awards ceremony.

Swiatek, world number one and winner of Roland Garros. This year she becomes the first tennis player to win this prize two years in a row since the American one. Serena Williams from 2012 to 2016. The pole not only won the third title in Paris, but also the WTA Finals in Cancun.

The Spanish national women’s team

The Spanish team won its first world title with a 1-0 win over England in the 2023 Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand, a meeting that took place in front of more than 75,000 fans at Sydney’s Accor Stadium on August 20.

The Spanish team won by one goal from Olga Carmona, who crowned a great collective duel in the 29th minute with a beautiful cross shot to the far post that was impossible for the English goalkeeper Mary Earps.

Aitana Bonmati and Salma Paralluelo were awarded the Golden Ball and Best Young Player of the World Cup in the campaign that gave La Roja Femenil its first star.

Diana Flores

In 2023, Flores became the face of the flag not only in Mexico, but around the world.

Actor in a special exhibition at NFL’s Super Bowl LVII and offensive coach at the Pro Bowl Games in the same league Peyton Manning, legendary quarterback, world champion with the national team. He is at the peak of his career.

In addition, she won two categories at the Sports Emmy Awards hosted by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the first for the commercial honoring women in the world of the NFL and sports and the second for “Outstanding Feature.” Story in Spanish’ (feature film in Spanish) thanks to her participation in the documentary ‘Diana Flores: the champion of Nextitla.’

Katie Ledecky

In 2023, Ledecky accomplished a mission impossible for many and pushed the boundaries of the traditional genre. with 16 individual swimming world titles for historic swimmer Michael Phelps.

The swimmer currently has the 15 best freestyle times in the world in the 1,500 meters, as well as taking first place at the FINA World Swimming Championships, winning the 1,500 meters, 800 meters and 400 meters freestyle.

In the final of the 2023 World Swimming Championships in Fukuokaele, he added his fifth world title, conquering the 1,500 meters freestyle with a time of 15:26.27, the third best mark of all time.

Mexican artistic swimming team

The Mexican artistic swimming team won the gold medal at the World Championships in Egypt. The tricolor delegation achieved a score of 270.1584, surpassing Italy and France, who scored 269.7084 and 253.5312 respectively. This triumph occurred after Mexican mermaids were forced to sell swimsuits to finance their skills abroad.

Despite the controversy with CONADE over support, the delegation did its best in the competition and defeated Mexico at the top of the discipline.

Alejandra Valencia

The Mexican goalkeeper returned to shine in 2023 after being crowned three-time Pan American champion in the individual category at the Santiago Games, cementing himself as the country’s leading representative at the moment.

Valencia was also selected as the recipient of the 2023 National Sports Award, thanks in part to his participation in the Pan-American team, which set a new record on the recurve bow and surpassed its own record with 1,972 points in the semi-finals.

The national archery team also shone at the 2023 World Championships, the San Salvador Central American and Caribbean Games and the World Archery Championship in Berlin, where it won a historic silver medal. In addition, contribute to Mexico obtaining new places for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Alexa Grasso

Mexican fighter Alexa Grasso established herself as the sole national champion in the flyweight Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2023 after defeating her opponent Valentina Shevchenko at the company’s 285th event in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Jalisco native’s victory moved her Kyrgyz rival to second place in the UFC’s official rankings of the top pound-for-pound fighters. Get the category belt

The 29-year-old player who came from the triumph of Guadalajara joined the two Mexican champions; 29-year-old Brandão Moreno, born in Tijuana, and Chihuahua-born Yair “The Panther” Rodríguez30, who became interim featherweight world champion in February.

Thanks to Grasso’s triumph at the time, Mexico positioned itself as one of the countries with the most recently acquired credentials in the world’s premier three-belt martial arts industry.

Furthermore, the Mexican is currently the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

LMS softball teams

2023 also marked a new era in women’s sports after Mexico announced the creation of the women’s sport Liga Mexicana de Softball (LMS), the first professional sport in Latin America. And what are you looking for? Promote innovation and gender equality and development of women’s professional sports.

With six founding clubs (Red Devils of Mexico, Bravos de León, El Águila de Veracruz, Charros de Jalisco, Olmecas de Tabasco and Sultans of Monterrey), the league has selected the first generation of female baseball players who will try to demonstrate the level of baseball . game that exists in the women’s industry in Mexico and the world, because this will also open the doors to these international players.

Source: La Neta Neta

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