The perseverance of a Mexican family shone in the eyes of the planet when the twins Mine and Lía Cueva Lobato The bronze medal in the World Water Sports Championship 2025.
From the divest grave Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen) and China (325.20 between Yiwen Chen and Jia Cen).
In addition, they did it with a remarkable age difference. The Mexican twins, with 14 years, six months and eight days, were the minors among the six medalists, since the age range of the Chinese and British was between 20 and 25.
This had a pleasant impact nationwide. According to his coach, Iván Bautista, Mía and Lía imposed record as the youngest athletes in Mexico to win a medal in world championships.
“They are the youngest world medalists in history. We are celebrating that too and we take it as part of the process we want to reach,” said former Olympic champion coach like Paola Espinosa, Alejandra Orozco, Iván García and Germán Sánchez.
The process to which it refers is none other than the maximum scenario of world sport: “This medal falls as a ring to the finger because it is a beginning of the Olympic cycle and we are pointing to Los Angeles 2028”.
Home support
There are still three summers to reach the next Olympics. Mía and Lía Cueva Lobato are clearly candidates to represent Mexico, but getting their first medal in world championships speaks of the solid environment that covers its career.
And before the prestigious coach Iván Bautista, there is a family with four children who prioritizes sports before leisure.
“Suddenly it is very heavy, but the truth is that they would be heavier to stay at home. I wanted The informant Earlier this year.
Mine and Lía have an older sister, Suri, and a minor one, Pablo, who also play sports. The nauses began when Suri was struck how Iván Bautista worked with some athletes towards Olympic Games; At that time, she and the twins practiced gymnastics.
“They came from gymnastics and then we had the opportunity to participate in motivational talks. There I mentioned them, I gave a talk of a practice that is more empirical than anything else. I call an anchor, how to make the children anchored to their dream. I did it with them and now they are anchored in looking for the Olympic dream,” Baptist acknowledged to the medium mentioned above.
Baptist’s experience and the support of his parents developed Suri, Mía and Lía until reaching a level to participate in the Worldwide of his native Guadalajara in 2025.
Mexico ended secondly from the medallero in this competition. The twins contributed a silver medal in three meters synchronized, the same test with which they went up to the podium a few months later in Singapore.
“In Guadalajara they achieved a silver with less degree of difficulty, but we knew that more grade was needed here. They did three and a half turned in front in B and we were fortunate that they received good grades,” Iván Bautista reflected.
“Everything can, if some 14 -year -old girls do it, we invite all the boys and girls to dream, to think about what they want and go for that goal.”
Mine also shared some words after the podium in Singapore: “We were lucky that our parents could come, we listened to how they shouted. Every time we are achieving more things, with our age this is very beautiful and we will continue working.”
Against statistics
According to data from the Ministry of Health in 2021, in Mexico, 21.1% of adolescents between 10 and 19 years were alcohol consumer and 4.6% smokers.
On the other hand, the non -governmental organization (NGO) ‘SOS Children’s Villages’ He describes on his website that in Mexico “more than one million girls and boys have lost the care of their parents due to factors such as domestic and gender violence, malnutrition, poverty, commercial sexual exploitation, drug trafficking, drug use and migrations.”
Despite these statistics, mine and Lía Cueva twins are demonstrating that sport is a positive way of channeling childhood and adolescence.
“It has been a sacrifice on the part of the whole family, but one gets used to Guadalajara’s World Cup.
Thanks to this feat, signed on Tuesday, Mexico reached six medals in total in the Singapore World Championship. Four are silver and two bronze, while by discipline, five are in nailed and one in artistic swimming.
The competition continues until the weekend, so Mexico could widen its medal. Specifically in the discipline of dive, there are medal expectations in mixed trampoline of three synchronized meters (with Osmar Olvera and Zyanya Parra) and in three -meter male trampoline (with Osmar Olvera and Juan Celaya).
