Alejandra Benítez

Alejandra Benítez
Personal information
Born (1980-07-07) 7 July 1980 (age 44)
Caracas, Venezuela
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
WeaponSabre
HandRight-handed
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's sabre
Representing  Venezuela
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2003 Santo Domingo Individual
Silver medal – second place 2011 Guadalajara Individual
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lima Individual
Pan American Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Valencia Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Querétaro Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Cartagena Individual

Alejandra Benítez Romero (born 7 July 1980) is a Venezuelan sabre fencer, who competed at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1][2] She was minister of sports in 2013

Sports career

Benítez was born in a popular parish AntímanoCaracas district. She began fencing accidentally at the age of fifteen years old on the suggestion and good reference of one of her aunts, who knew coach Hildemaro Sánchez at the Central University of Venezuela.[3] The national Venezuelan team trained in the same fencing hall, which inspired her to work hard to join them. Besides fencing, Benítez also practiced ballet, ornamentals jumper, judo, and a little bit of music, swimming and volleyball.[4]

In 1996 the younger Sportler joined the national junior team. With them she took part in the first Junior World Championships for women's sabre held in 1999 in Dijon, France. They earned a gold medal in the team event after Venezuela prevailed successively over Italy, France and Germany.[5]

In the senior category she qualified to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens through the zone qualifying tournament for the Americas; she was defeated in the first round by China's Zhang Ying.[6] She won the Havana World Cup in 2005. She earned a bronze medal at the 2006 Pan American Championships in 2006–she would repeat this feat in 2008 and 2013. She qualified to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as one of the two-ranked American fencers. She received a bye, then lost to Poland's Bogna Jóźwiak.[6] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, her third Olympic participation, she defeated Korea's Lee Ra-jin before losing to World No.2 Sofiya Velikaya.[6]

Political career

Benítez met in 1999 Hugo Chávez, who made a strong impression on her. She supported him in several elections and featured in a TV sport for his presidential campaign.[4] She also stood as honour guard at his funeral. On 22 March 2013 she was named Minister of Sports for the government of newly elected Nicolás Maduro. She was replaced by singer and ex-baseball player Tony Álvarez in the January 2014 government reshuffle.[7]

References

  1. ^ "2008 Summer Olympics Results". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  2. ^ Alejandra Benítez es la venezolana 33 en clasificar a Londres Archived 4 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Alejandra Benítez: sablista de oro" (in Spanish). Fundación Gigantes en Acción. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  4. ^ a b Ewald Scharfenberg (24 April 2013). "El sable más 'sexy' del chavismo". El País (in Spanish).
  5. ^ Richard Alfredo Contreras (27 April 1999). "Ganar el Mundial fue la meta". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  6. ^ a b c "Alejandra Benitez Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  7. ^ "Venezuela's Maduro appoints new ministers in gov't reshuffle". 10 January 2014.

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