Lenia Ruvalcaba

Lenia Fabiola Ruvalcaba Álvarez (born 23 April 1986) is a Mexican visually-impaired judoka. Competing in the 70 kg division she won a silver medal at the 2008 Paralympics and a gold at the 2016 Rio Games. Ruvalcaba also took part in regular judo competitions and won a team bronze medal at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games. In 2011, she participated both at the Pan American and Parapan American Games.

By earning gold in Rio, Ruvalcaba became the first Mexican female to win an Olympic or Paralympic judo tournament.

Ruvalcaba won one of the bronze medals in the women's 70 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

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1986 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Guadalajara, Jalisco

Mexican female judoka

Paralympic judoka for Mexico

Paralympic gold medalists for Mexico

Paralympic silver medalists for Mexico

Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Judoka at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Judoka at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Judoka at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Paralympic medalists in judo

Medalists at the 2011 Parapan American Games

Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games

Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games

20th-century Mexican women

21st-century Mexican women