Adriana Fabiola Corona García (born April 7, 1980), known as Adriana Corona, is a Mexican

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, who won two gold medals at the

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. Corona started out her sporting career as an adventurer and cross-country racer in 2000, until she began with triathlon at the ITU Triathlon Pan American Cup in

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two years later. In 2005, she finally reached into the international scene, and made a comeback in triathlon after pursuing her full-time sporting career in

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. In the same year, she had also achieved her first medal, by claiming the silver at the ITU Triathlon Pan American Cup in

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. Corona competed at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, where she won gold medals in the women's individual and team events, along with her compatriot Melody Ramirez. Corona's best result in these games contributed to her qualifying place for the

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, where she placed seventh in the women's event, and consequently, for the

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. At the Olympics, Corona maintained her pace in a field of fifty-five competitors during the swimming leg, but she got lapped by the leader in the road cycling course.

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* * 1980 births Living people Triathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic triathletes for Mexico Sportspeople from Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexican female triathletes Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in triathlon Triathletes at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Mexico 20th-century Mexican women 21st-century Mexican sportswomen {{Mexico-triathlon-bio-stub