Heidy Juárez

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Heidy Pinto
Personal information
Full nameHeidy Pinto
Born (1977-05-14) 14 May 1977 (age 47)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport Taekwondo
Event67 kg
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1999 Winnipeg 67 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2007 Rio de Janeiro 67 kg
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1995 Manila 70 kg

Heidy Marleny Juárez Guzmán (born May 14, 1977 in Los Angeles) 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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