Nicolás Ledezma is a

paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

from

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

competing mainly in category T11 long-distance events. Nicolas won a bronze medal in the T10 marathon in the

1996 Summer Paralympics The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games where Internatio ...

. He could not improve on this performance in the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was the last time that the Summer Paralympics were organized by two different Organ ...

despite competing in the 1500m, 5000m, 10000m and marathon only winning the bronze in the 5000m.profile on paralympic.org
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Paralympic athletes for Mexico Mexican male middle-distance runners Mexican male long-distance runners Mexican male marathon runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for Mexico Living people Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2007 Parapan American Games Visually impaired middle-distance runners Visually impaired long-distance runners Visually impaired marathon runners Paralympic middle-distance runners Paralympic long-distance runners Paralympic marathon runners Parapan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Parapan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico {{Mexico-Paralympic-medalist-stub