Daniela Campuzano Chávez Peón (born 21 October 1986) is a Mexican

mountain biker Mountain biking is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and pe ...

who qualified for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

held in

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, Brazil. She carried the Mexican flag at the

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during the

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Personal life

Campuzano was born on 21 October 1986 in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, Mexico. She has a university degree in biology from the

Autonomous University of Hidalgo State In developmental psychology and morality, moral, political, and bioethics, bioethical philosophy, autonomy, from , ''autonomos'', from αὐτο- ''auto-'' "self" and νόμος ''nomos'', "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who g ...

Mountain biking career

Campuzano began mountain biking in 1998. In the women's cross country event at the

2011 Pan American Games The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, ...

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, Mexico, she finished in ninth position. At the 2013 Pan American cross country championships, held in

Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

, Mexico, she won the gold medal. She won the women's cross country event at the

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held in
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, Mexico, taking the gold medal in a time of one hour 23 minutes and 30 seconds. She won another gold medal at the Pan American cross country championships at the 2014 event in Brazil. At the
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held in
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, Norway she finished 14th in the women's cross country. Campuzano won the Pan American cross country championships for the third time at the 2015 event in Cota, Colombia. In doing so she earned qualification for the
2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
in
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, Brazil. She competed at her second
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at the 2015 Games held in
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, Ontario, Canada. In the women's cross country she finished just outside of the medal in fourth place in a time of one hour 34 minutes 11 seconds. In the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup she placed 16th in the event held in
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, France, in a time of one hour 34 minutes and 23 seconds. In May 2016 Mario Garcia de la Torre, head of the Mexican delegation, announced that Campuzano would carry the Mexican flag during the
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at the
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. She competed in the women's cross-country event on 20 August. She was the first mountain biker to represent Mexico at an Olympic Games by finishing 16th

References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Campuzano, Daniela Living people 1986 births Cross-country mountain bikers Sportspeople from Mexico City Mexican female cyclists Olympic cyclists of Mexico Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in cycling Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico Cyclists at the 2011 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2015 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games