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Gonzala Aurora Bretón Gómez (10 January 1950 – 27 May 2014) was a Mexican
archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...
who represented her country in four
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1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
,
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
,
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and
1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...
); won two silver and five bronze medals in
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and eight gold and two silver medals in
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. After retiring from international competitions, she worked as Olympic coach, briefly served as sports commentator for a television network during the
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and, controversially, chaired the Mexican Archery Federation, where she was forced to resign after being charged with
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by the United States government and accused of
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by the family of an underage female athlete.


Athletic career

Aurora Bretón was born on 10 January 1950 in Mexico to Amado Enrique Bretón Gómez and Anselma Gómez Jiménez. She trained with fellow Olympian José Almanzor —grandfather of Luis Eduardo Vélez— and won nine national championships in her home country. Internationally, she won two silver medals while competing in teams in three
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: first along María Fernández and Ofelia Ávila in Indianapolis 1987, and then in Havana 1991 along Alejandra García and Miriam Véliz. Individually, she won two bronze medals in Caracas 1983 (in recurve 60 and 70 meters) and three bronze medals in Havana 1991 (in recurve, recurve 30 and 70 meters). Nevertheless, most of her medals were obtained in
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. After winning five consecutive gold medals at the 1986 edition hosted in
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, she was awarded the 1986 National Sports Prize of Mexico.


Life after retirement

After retiring from international competitions, Bretón coached Olympic medalists
Aída Román Aída Nabila Román Arroyo (born May 21, 1988) is a Mexican archer. A three-time Olympian, she won silver medal in the women's individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was the women's World Indoor Archery Champion in 2014. She has addi ...
and
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( /translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/deportes/2014/muere-arquera-aurora-breton-1013385.html Google translation and briefly worked as sports commentator for
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during the
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. Controversially, she also served as president of the Mexican Archery Federation (in ), where she was involved in two major scandals that forced her resignation. In the first incident, the father of an underage female athlete accused her of molesting his daughter on 2 May 2004 during an international competition in
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. According to the claimant, the travel expenses of the minor had been paid in advance by a state government, but Bretón booked a single room for both alleging budget cuts and, reportedly, asked an accompanying female athlete (with no prior knowledge of the local language nor acquainted with the city) to search for and bring back something to eat at the hotel while she sexually harassed his daughter. A year later, in October 2005, Bretón was caught by immigration authorities of the
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while trying to secure
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s for two deli vendors and a friend of her own daughter by presenting them as official coaches of the Mexican archery team. The United States Embassy in Mexico City intervened and she was charged with
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and banned from visiting the country for ninety-nine years. Following the incident, she was asked to resign from all executive posts in both the federation and the Mexican Sports Confederation (Codeme). Bretón died at the age of 64 from a chronic degenerative disease on 27 May 2014, at the ISSSTE General Hospital in
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, a northeastern borough of
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. Her remains, however, were moved by her family to the central state of
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Breton, Aurora Olympic archers for Mexico Archers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Archers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Archers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Archers at the 1992 Summer Olympics 1950 births 2014 deaths Mexican female archers Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games silver medalists in archery Pan American Games bronze medalists in archery Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games Archers at the 1983 Pan American Games Archers at the 1987 Pan American Games Archers at the 1991 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in archery Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Mexico City 20th-century Mexican sportswomen