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Full name | Karla Marlene Sánchez Rodríguez |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico | 27 October 1991
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Modern pentathlon |
Karla Marlene Sánchez Rodríguez (born October 27, 1991, in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a Mexican modern pentathlete. [1] She is currently ranked no. 82 in the world by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM).
Sanchez qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed as a lone female athlete in women's modern pentathlon. In the early rounds of the competition, Sanchez displayed her strong performance by attaining a fourth-place finish in the air pistol shooting event (AP40), with a score of 186 points. [2] She placed eighteenth in one-touch épée fencing, with a total of seventeen victories and eighteen losses, but dropped to a lower position in freestyle swimming and show jumping segments. Following her poor performance in the final rounds, Sanchez finished the event with cross-country running in twenty-eighth place, for a total score of 5,156 points. [3] [4]
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