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| Full name | Victoria Velasco Fuentes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 August 2002 Monterrey, Nuevo León, México | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victoria Velasco Fuentes (born 5 August 2002) is a Mexican cyclist. She won a silver medal for Mexico in the team pursuit at the 2023 Pan American Games and represented Mexico at the 2024 Olympic Games. She is a multiple-time medalist at the Pan American Track Cycling Championships. [1]
In June 2021, Velasco won the madison with Yareli Acevedo at the Pan American Track Cycling Championships in Lima, Peru. [2] Prior to that, on 29 May 2021, Velasco also won the omnium at the Mexican Olympic trials in Guadalajara. [3] Velasco travelled to compete at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. However, a registration error by the Mexican federation made her and Acevedo ineligible to compete at the Games in August 2021, and was discovered just days before the opening ceremony chasing them to withdraw. [4] Velasco won the bronze medal at the 2022 Pan American Track Cycling Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2022, in the Omnium. [5]
Velasco was a silver medalist in the team pursuit alongside Acevedo, Antonieta Gaxiola and Lizbeth Salazar at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. [6] [7] Velasco placed ninth overall in the Omnium at the 2023 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup and also had top-ten finishes at the events in Canada and Hong Kong in the 2024 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup. [8] She qualified to compete for Mexico in the omnium at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France for a belated Olympic debut. [9]
Velasco was born in Monterrey. [10] From a family of cyclists, her brother and sister also competed in cycling events. [11]
