Juan Pablo Cervantes | |
Full Name: | Juan Pablo Cervantes García |
Birth Date: | 23 June 1992 |
Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
Sport: | Paralympic athletics |
Disability Class: | T54 |
Juan Pablo Cervantes García (born 23 June 1992)[1] is a Mexican Paralympic athlete.
He represented Mexico at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, where he won a bronze medal in the 100 meters T54 event.[2] Formerly a wheelchair basketballer, Cervantes García changed to parathletism after his coach suggested him to do it.[2] He first represented the country at the Paralympics in London 2012, where he competed in the 100 m T54, 400 m T54 and T53–T54 events, but did not classify in any.[3]