Paola Pliego

Paola Pliego
Full name	Maria Paola Pliego Lara
Country represented	Mexico
Born	27 September 1994 Mexico City, Mexico
Residence	Querétaro
Weapon(s)	sabre
Hand	right-handed
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
FIE Ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's sabre Representing  Mexico Pan American Championships 2015 Santiago Team 2015 Santiago Individual

Maria Paola Pliego Lara, known as Paola Pliego (born September 27, 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican sabre fencer, bronze medallist at the 2015 Pan American Fencing Championships.

Career

Pliego became interested in fencing at the age of four after watching a fencing scene in The Parent Trap.^[1] She was too small to train at the time, but persisted in her interest and eventually took courses with her sister. She started to compete when she was a teenager. After she earned her first medals at the Mexican national championships, she trained at the Oregon Fencing Alliance, alongside twice-Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis.^[2]

With 150 points Pliego in 2013-2014 season ends as number 1 seeded of FIE's junior women saber ranking ^[3]

Pliego won the 2013–14 Fencing World Cup in the junior category. In the 2014–15 season, she ranked second at the Cancún satellite tournament. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Championships in Santiago after losing 10–15 in the semifinals to USA's Dagmara Wozniak.^[4] She went on to take the silver medal with the team.

References

1. "Paola Pliego y la esgrima". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). 16 May 2013.
2. "La queretana Paola Pliego, en la cima del esgrima". El Economista (in Spanish). 5 February 2014.
3. "Ranking - Result & Statistic - FIE - International Fencing Federation".
4. María Vega (19 April 2015). "Paola Pliego, bronce en el Panamericano de Chile". Esto.