Belem Guerrero Méndez (born March 8, 1974 in Mexico City) is a Mexican former road and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

who represented Mexico at the

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in Athens where she won a silver medal in the Women's Points Race. She won the points race gold and the bronze medals in 3000m Individual Pursuit and road race during the

1998 Central American and Caribbean Games 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, but failed the doping control with

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and her medals were stripped.

Palmarès

;1997 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships ;1998 :2nd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships ;1999 :2nd Points race, Round 5, Track World Cup, Cali ;2001 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :2nd Pan American Championships, Road, Medellin ;2002 :1st

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, Road, Quito :1st

, Track, Individual pursuit, Quito :1st

, Track, Scratch, Quito :2nd

, Track, Points race, Quito :3rd Stage 4,

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:3rd Scratch race, Round 1, Track World Cup, Monterrey :1st Points race, Round 1, Track World Cup, Monterrey ;2004 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :2nd Points race, Round 1, Track World Cup, Moscow :3rd Points race, Round 3, Track World Cup, Manchester :2nd Points race,

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

;2007 :1st Pan American Championships, Track, Points race, Valencia :2nd Pan American Games, Road, Rio de Janeiro :3rd Pan American Games, Points race, Rio de Janeiro ;2008 :3rd Copa Federacion Venezolana de Ciclismo :3rd Pan American Championships, Road :3rd Stage 4, Vuelta Ciclista Femenina a el Salvador, Lourdes

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* 1974 births Living people Mexican female cyclists Mexican track cyclists Doping cases in cycling Olympic cyclists for Mexico Cyclists at the 1995 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2003 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2007 Pan American Games Olympic silver medalists for Mexico Sportspeople from Mexico City Olympic medalists in cycling Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in cycling Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 20th-century Mexican women 21st-century Mexican women Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games {{Mexico-Olympic-medalist-stub