Juan Botella Medina (4 July 1941 – 17 July 1970) was a Mexican

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. He was born in

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. He competed for Mexico at the

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held in

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, where he won the bronze medal in the men's springboard event.

Death

He died on 17 July 1970, in Basurto, Mexico City, working on his thesis on architecture, because of hypertension suffering for a long time.

References

External links

Juan Botella's profile at Sports Reference.com

* 1941 births 1970 deaths Mexican male divers Olympic bronze medalists for Mexico Divers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for Mexico Divers from Mexico City Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in diving Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Divers at the 1959 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games 20th-century Mexican people {{Mexico-Olympic-medalist-stub