María Cabrera
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| Full name | María Patricia Cabrera | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Ecuadorian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 August 1972 Guayaquil, Ecuador | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | ||||||||||||||
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María Patricia Cabrera (born 28 August 1972) is a former Ecuadorian table tennis player. Born in Guayaquil, Cabrera won several titles during her career and became the first Ecuadorian table tennis player to compete in the Olympics, participating in the women's singles event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Biography
María Cabrera was born on 28 August 1972 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[1][2]
She competed at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, winning a bronze medal in doubles with Betty Guamancela.[3] She also competed at the 1989 World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, Germany, where she advanced to the main draw, becoming the first Ecuadorian to do so.[4] She was the last to do so until Alberto Miño in the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships.[4][5]
The 1992 Summer Olympics were held in Barcelona, Spain, from 24 July to 9 August.[6] Cabrera was the first Ecuadorian table tennis player to compete for the Olympics,[7] and was the last to do so until Alberto Miño qualified for the 2021 Summer Olympics.[2] She competed in the women's single and was seeded into Group I. Group I's games took place from 29 July to 31 July 1992. In all three games, Cabrera lost 2-0, the first against Csilla Bátorfi from Hungary, the second against Rossy Pratiwi Dipoyanti from Indonesia, and the third against Lisa Lomas from the United Kingdom. She finished last in her group and was ranked 49th overall.[7][8]
In 2000, she was awarded the Golden Condor (Spanish: Cóndor de Oro) by sports magazine Estadio, an award given to "the best athletes of the year."[9] She was described by the Ecuadorian Table Tennis Federation as "an Ecuadorian table tennis legend".[10]
Cabrera currently resides in the Netherlands with her son.[4]
References
- ^ "María Cabrera". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ a b Smith, Nicole (17 August 2021). "FETM LANZA CAMISETAS CONMEMORATIVAS POR HISTÓRICA CLASIFICACIÓN OLÍMPICA" [FETM LAUNCHES COMMEMORATIVE T-SHIRTS FOR HISTORIC OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION]. Ecuadorian Table Tennis Federation (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 October 2025.
- ^ "Pan American Games;NEWLN:1987 Individual and Team Medal Winners - UPI Archives". UPI. 24 August 1987. Retrieved 26 November 2025.
- ^ a b c "Miño hace historia en el Mundial de Tenis de mesa" [Miño makes history at the World Table Tennis Championships]. El Telégrafo (in Spanish). 29 April 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ "Alberto Miño ingresó a la fase final del Mundial" [Alberto Miño entered the final phase of the World Cup]. Diario Expreso. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2025 – via PressReader.
- ^ "1992 Summer Olympics Overview". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
- ^ a b "OLYMPIC GAMES REVIEW". Swaythling Club International Magazine. No. 118. October 2024. p. 10. Retrieved 3 October 2025 – via Issuu.
- ^ "Singles, Women". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
- ^ Soledad & Ramos 2016, p. 48.
- ^ "Cumpleaños" [Birthday]. Ecuadorian Table Tennis Federation (in Spanish). Facebook. 29 August 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
Cited sources
- Soledad, María; Ramos, Reyes (2016). La mujer en el deporte ecuatoriano, una visión desde la Revista Estadio período 1962-1980 [Women in Ecuadorian sport: a perspective from Estadio Magazine, period 1962-1980] (Bachelor thesis). University of Guayaquil. p. 48. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
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Further reading
- García Yánez, Alfredo (2000s). Historia del Tenis de Mesa Ecuatoriano : 1928-2004 [History of Ecuadorian Table Tennis: 1928-2004]. Cuenca, Ecuador: Imprenta Rocafuerte.
- Flores, Christian (25 April 2021). "Miño, una clasificación "liberadora"" [Miño, a "liberating" qualification]. Diario Expreso (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- "Reseña Histórica" [Historical Review] (in Spanish). Ecuadorian Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 2 October 2025.