Margaret de Jesús
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| Born | November 4, 1957(1957年11月04日) (age68) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 167cm (5ft 6in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55kg (121lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Margaret de Jesús Candelaria (born November 4, 1957, in Brooklyn, New York) is Puerto Rican former sprinter who competed internationally in relay events during the late 1970s and 1980s. She got a silver medal in the 4 ×ばつ 100-meter relay at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana alongside teammates Stephanie Vega, Nilsa Paris, and Marie Lande Mathieu.
De Jesús is known for a scandal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where she acted as an imposter for her injured identical twin sister, Madeline. Margaret secretly ran the second leg of the 4 ×ばつ 400-meter relay qualifying heat to help Puerto Rico advance, but the head coach withdrew the team from the final upon discovering the situation.
Career
[edit ]Her sole global competition appearance came at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where she competed on the Puerto Rican women's ×ばつ_400_metres_relay" title="4 ×ばつ 400 metres relay" id="mwDQ">4 ×ばつ 400 meters relay team. The team did not make the final.[1]
In 1982, at 31.36,52 seconds, she won the silver medal in the ×ばつ_100_metres_relay" title="4 ×ばつ 100 metres relay" id="mwEw">4 ×ばつ 100 meters relay at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games with her teammates, Stephanie Vega, Nilsa Paris, and Marie Mathieu, losing to Cuba, followed by Jamaica..[2]
Olympic controversy
[edit ]After Puerto Rico’s Madeline de Jesus came up lame while competing in the long jump, she was unable to run in the ×ばつ_400_metres_relay" title="4 ×ばつ 400 metres relay" id="mwHQ">×ばつ400-meter relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Madeline enlisted her identical twin sister, Margaret, as an imposter for a qualifying heat. Margaret ran the second leg of the qualifier, and the team advanced. When the Puerto Rican team's chief coach learned of the ruse, however, he pulled his team out of the final.[3] Her twin sister, Madeline de Jesús, also competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and won a number of international medals during her career as a long jumper. Both were born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Río Piedras.[4]
References
[edit ]- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Margaret de Jesús". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ↑ XIV JUEGOS DEPORTIVOSCENIROAMERICANOS pEEiis (PDF). p. 147.
- ↑ Garriga, Ray. "The Puerto Rican Olympic Committee Friday banned two sisters..." UPI. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ↑ "Salón de la Fama del Deporte Riopedrense/Exaltados 2005/Margaret De Jesús". famadeportesrp.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2018.
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[edit ]- 1957 births
- Living people
- Puerto Rican women sprinters
- Puerto Rican twins
- Olympic track and field athletes for Puerto Rico
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games track and field athletes for Puerto Rico
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games
- University of Puerto Rico alumni
- Sportspeople from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
- Track and field athletes from San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Impostors
- 20th-century American sportswomen