Edgar Cesáreo Navarro Sánchez (born 21 May 1971) is a Paralympic

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

from Mexico competing mainly in category T51 wheelchair racing events.

Career

Navarro has competed in four Paralympics across two sports. His first sport was athletics where he competed in the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...

as a T51 athlete in 200m, 400m and 800m. In

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

he won the 200m and a bronze medal in the marathon before in

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moving to cycling where he competed in the individual time trial for hand cycles class A. In 2012 he appeared in his fourth Paralympics where he finished fourth in the T51 100m sprint at London. Four years later he eared two medals in Rio 2016: One silver in 400 meters and one bronze in 100 meters.

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* Living people 1971 births Paralympic athletes for Mexico Paralympic cyclists for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Mexico Paralympic bronze medalists for Mexico Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships World Para Athletics Championships winners People from Nezahualcóyotl Sportspeople from the State of Mexico Mexican male wheelchair racers 21st-century Mexican people {{Mexico-Paralympic-medalist-stub