Paola Espinosa

Paola Milagros Espinosa Sanchez is a Mexican diver born on 31 July 1986 who specialised in the 10 metre platform and represented Mexico at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. She carried the Mexican flag at the opening ceremony in Beijing in 2008, where she won bronze in the synchronised platform event with Tatiana Ortiz, and she won silver in the same event in London in 2012 with Alejandra Orozco, becoming the first Mexican athlete with two medals in different Olympic events. In 2009 she won the 10 metre platform at the World Aquatics Championships in Rome, the first Mexican diver to be a world champion, and she has won thirteen Pan American Games medals, eight of them gold.