Kenia Villalobos
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| Full name | Kenia Yesenia Villalobos Vargas | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 March 1999[1] Aguascalientes, Mexico | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paratriathlon | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Cerebral palsy | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | PTS3 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kenia Yesenia Villalobos Vargas (born 21 March 1999) is a Mexican paratriathlete. She represented Mexico at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Career
Villalobos began her career in para-swimming before switching to paratriathlon in 2020[2] She competed at the 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships and won a silver medal in the PTS3 event with a time of 1:25.01.[3] In September 2024, she competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and finished in eleventh place in the PTS4 paratriathlon with a time of 1:22:53.[4][5] She competed at the 2025 World Triathlon Para Championships and won a bronze medal in the PST3 event.[6]
Personal life
Villalobos was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.[7]
References
- ^ "Kenia Yesenia Villalobos Vargas". paralympic.org. Retrieved 19 October 2025. (alternate link, alternate link 2)
- ^ "Kenia Villalobos en los Juegos Paralímpicos París 2024: orgullo para México y la UP AGS". up.edu. 1 November 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- ^ "Kenia Villalobos conquista plata en Mundial de Para Triatlón Pontevedra 2023". gob.mx (in Spanish). 23 September 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- ^ Torres, Rubén (11 March 2025). "¿Te has preguntado qué se necesita para ser una campeona mundial? La historia de esta atleta hidrocálida te lo cuenta". Organización Editorial Mexicana (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- ^ "Kenia Villalobos y Brenda Osnaya cierran su participación en el para triatlón de París 2024". gob.mx (in Spanish). 2 September 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- ^ Gray, Doug (18 October 2025). "Kenia Villalobos cosecha un bronce en el Mundial de Paratriatlón en Australia". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- ^ "Aguascalentenses en los Juegos Parapanamericanos Juvenil 2017". Organización Editorial Mexicana (in Spanish). 16 March 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
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