Enriqueta Basilio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican athlete
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Place of Birth: Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
About Enriqueta Basilio
- Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo, also known as Queta Basilio (15 July 1948 – 26 October 2019), was a Mexican track and field athlete.
- She was born in Mexicali, capital of Baja California.
- She came from an athletic family; her father was a cotton farmer.
- Her Polish coach, Vladimir Puzio, moved her from high jumping to hurdling.
- She made history by becoming the first woman to light the Olympic Cauldron.
- She was the last torch-bearer of the 19th Summer Olympics in Mexico City on 12 October 1968.She was a national athletics champion and record-holder in 80 metres hurdles and finished seventh in this event at the 1967 Pan American Games.
- At the 1968 Olympics she was eliminated in the heats of the 400 metres, 80 metres hurdles and 4 × 100 metres relay events.
- In 1970, she took bronze in the Central American Games 4 x 100m relay.She married the basketball player Mario Álvarez, who was later secretary to the Oaxaca state governor.
- She was widowed with three young children when he died in an aeroplane accident.
- She studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and became a federal congresswoman for Partido Revolucionario Institiucional (2000 - 2003).She became a permanent member of the Mexico Olympic Committee and was part of the 2004 Olympic torch relay when it was passing through Mexico City.
- In 2014, she was amongst 6,500 people defrauded of their savings in a money-lending business scam.
- She died of pneumonia on 26 October 2019, aged 71.
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