Cecilia Tamayo-Garza

Cecilia Tamayo Garza (spelled Tamayo-Garza in international competitions; born 4 March 1997) is a Mexican sprinter. She has won multiple national titles and is national record holder over 200 metres.^[2]

Tamayo Garza earned multiple national titles in both the 100m and 200m events between 2021 and 2024. In 2021 she set a Mexican record of 23.02 seconds in the 200 m, which she later improved to 22.45 seconds at a meet in Tampa, Florida in 2023.

She is trained by Carl Lewis.^[3]

Internationally, she has represented Mexico at events such as the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in the 200 metres.^[4] She qualified for the final of the 100 metres at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago.^[5]

She competed in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in both the 100 metres and 200 metres.^[6] With this achievement, she became the first Mexican woman in 20 years to compete in the 100 metres at the Olympic Games and ended a 56-year absence for Mexico in the 200 metres.^[7]

She is also the third Mexican woman in history to contest both events simultaneously.^[8]

She is from León, Guanajuato.^[9][10]