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María José Alcalá

Mexican diver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ95109681 ↗
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María José Alcalá Izguerra (born 24 December 1971) is a Mexican former diver. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2021, she became the first female President of the Mexican Olympic Committee.

In March 2023, she officially announced Mexico's interest in organizing the 2036 Summer Olympics.

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“María José Alcalá” enters the record as mexican diver. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what María, José and Alcalá can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1988, 1992, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-12-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around María, José and Alcalá.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q95109681. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1988, 1992 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “María José Alcalá” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.