Jump to content

Juan Botella

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
Juan Botella
Personal information
Full nameJuan Botella Medina
Born(1941-07-04)4 July 1941
Died17 July 1970(1970-07-17) (aged 29)
Medal record
Men's diving
Representing  Mexico
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1960 Rome 3 m springboard
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 1959 Chicago 10 m platform

Juan Botella Medina (4 July 1941 – 17 July 1970) was a Mexican diver. He was born in Mexico City.

He competed for Mexico at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, where he won the bronze medal in the men's springboard event.[1]

Death

He died on 17 July 1970, in Basurto, Mexico City, working on his thesis on architecture, because of hypertension suffering for a long time.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Juan Botella MEX". Olympic.org. Retrieved March 24, 2019.