Marlene Sánchez

Marlene Sánchez
Personal information
Full name Karla Marlene Sánchez Rodríguez
Nationality  Mexico
Born (1991-10-27) 27 October 1991
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport Modern pentathlon

Karla Marlene Sánchez Rodríguez (born October 27, 1991 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a Mexican modern pentathlete.[1] She is currently ranked no. 82 in the world by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM).

Sanchez qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed as a lone female athlete in women's modern pentathlon. In the early rounds of the competition, Sanchez displayed her strong performance by attaining a fourth-place finish in the air pistol shooting event (AP40), with a score of 186 points.[2] She placed eighteenth in one-touch épée fencing, with a total of seventeen victories and eighteen losses, but dropped to a lower position in freestyle swimming and show jumping segments. Following her poor performance in the final rounds, Sanchez finished the event with cross-country running in twenty-eighth place, for a total score of 5,156 points.[3][4]

References

  1. "Marlene Sánchez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  2. "Women's Shooting". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  3. "Women's Modern Pentathlon". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  4. "Quedó en el 28" [She was 28]. Notimex (in Spanish). ESPN Deportes. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2013.


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