{"id":744127,"date":"2013-03-29T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223008"},"modified":"2013-03-29T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:42:50","slug":"2000-gold-medalist-dies-of-a-heart-attack-at-age-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/744127","title":{"rendered":"2000 Gold Medalist Dies of a Heart Attack at age 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic gold medalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famousdead.com\/soraya-jimenez\/\">Soraya Jimenez<\/a> has died at the age of 35.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters is <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/mexican-weightlifter-soraya-jimenez-dies-age-35-025208264--spt.html\">reporting<\/a> that Jimenez died of a heart attack at her home in Mexico City.  She reportedly had multiple health issues, and only one lung.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez won gold for Mexico in the women&#8217;s 58 kg weightlifting competition at the 2000 summer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/olympics\">Olympic Games<\/a> in Sydney, Australia.  She lifted a total of 222.5 kg (490.5 pounds), beating the North Korean silver medalist Ri Song-Hui.  The victory made her the first female gold medalist from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez retired from the sport of weightlifting after the 2004 summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, where she did not place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Czwm11bUc48\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=aFCWydgGSvQ:k2a1B7H3vk4:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/aFCWydgGSvQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic gold medalist Soraya Jimenez has died at the age of 35. Reuters is reporting that Jimenez died of a heart attack at her home in Mexico City. She reportedly had multiple health issues, and only one lung. Jimenez won gold for Mexico in the women&#8217;s 58 kg weightlifting competition at the 2000 summer Olympic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37A3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}