Mexico Sends Four Taekwondo Athletes to Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, Competing November 10–12
Mexico taekwondo team at Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games: four athletes will compete in Senegal from November 10 to 12, aiming for the podium, with Mexico the only Americas nation in the mixed team event against Turkey on November 12.
Mexico taekwondo team at Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, Digi Mart USA News (Aguascalientes, Mexico): Mexico’s taekwondo team at Dakar 2026 will compete from November 10 to 12 at the Youth Olympic Games in Senegal, with the goal of reaching the podium. The team, made up of two men and two women, will compete in different weight categories.
Four Mexican athletes will take part: Guillermo Cortés, Aline Herrera, Vania Mondragón and Jorge Martínez. Guillermo Manuel Cortés Labastida, from Jalisco and the reigning world youth champion from Tashkent 2026, opens Mexico’s campaign in the -63 kg category on Tuesday, November 10, against Adam Hasnaoui of Tunisia.
On the same day, Aline Saraí Herrera Martínez, from the State of Mexico, competes in the -55 kg category, and Vania Mondragón Cárdelas, from Chiapas, competes in the -63 kg category. Herrera Martínez will face Germany’s Damija Hadzic in her first bout, while Mondragón Cárdelas will face fellow German Luna Fellinger.
The last of the four to compete will be Jorge Octavio Martínez Martínez, from Nuevo León, who fights Yousuf Alhabishi of Libya in the -73 kg category on Wednesday, November 11.
The mixed team event takes place on Thursday, November 12, giving Mexico another opportunity to win a medal. According to the World Taekwondo list, Mexico is the only Americas representative in the event, alongside Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Tunisia and Turkey.
Mexico’s first mixed team bout is against Turkey.
This will be the first time the mixed team event is contested as an Olympic medal event, after appearing as an exhibition event at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Mexico has already won one medal at these Games: Karen Ríos took silver in beach wrestling at Dakar 2026.
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