Background
Aurora Bretón was born on 10 January 1950 in Mexico to Amado Enrique Bretón Gómez and Anselma Gómez Jiménez.
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After retiring from international competitions, she worked as Olympic coach, briefly served as sports commentator for a television network during the 2012 Summer Olympics and, controversially, chaired the Mexican Archery Federation, where she was forced to resign after being charged with visa fraud by the United States government and accused of sexual harassment by the family of an underage female athlete. Nevertheless, most of her medals were obtained in Central American and Caribbean Games. After winning five consecutive gold medals at the 1986 edition hosted in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, she was awarded the 1986 National Sports Prize of Mexico.
After retiring from international competitions, Bretón coached Olympic medalists Aída Román and Mariana Avitia and briefly worked as sports commentator for Televisa Deportes during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Controversially, she also served as president of the Mexican Archery Federation (in Spanish: Federación Mexicana de Tiro con Arco), where she was involved in two major scandals that forced her resignation. The United States Embassy in Mexico City intervened and she was charged with visa fraud and banned from visiting the country for ninety-nine years.
Following the incident, she was asked to resign from all executive posts in both the federation and the Mexican Sports Confederation (Codeme). Bretón died at the age of 64 from a chronic degenerative disease on 27 May 2014, at the ISSSTE General Hospital in Tacuba, a northeastern borough of Mexico City.
Her remains, however, were moved by her family to the central state of Hidalgo.
Achievements
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She trained with fellow Olympian José Almanzor —grandfather of Luis Eduardo Vélez— and won nine national championships in her home country. Internationally, she won two silver medals while competing in teams in three Pan American Games: first along María Fernández and Ofelia Ávila in Indianapolis 1987, and then in Havana 1991 along Alejandra García and Miriam Véliz. Individually, she won two bronze medals in Caracas 1983 (in recurve 60 and 70 meters) and three bronze medals in Havana 1991 (in recurve, recurve 30 and 70 meters).
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