With a gold medal obtained at the Pan American Championships in Uruguay 2025, Ivan Veloz, the outstanding Mexican aerobics gymnast, put an end to a period of great glories and sacrifices. It was not just any competition, this was his farewell as a high performance athlete.
The Coahuila native received a standing ovation from the entire audience that attended the finals competition of the Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championship in Maldonado, Uruguay on Sunday, October 12.
With the result obtained recently he has 11 titles as Pan American champion and multiple international medals including three world championships, the first was in Cancun 2014 where he managed to win gold, then he added two bronze medals, one in South Korea in 2016 and the other in Portugal in 2018.
Almost three decades of experience on stages around the world will now be put into practice from another role within Mexican gymnastics, ¨I will continue working with UPAG and also with the Mexican Gymnastics Federation to continue promoting more gymnasts who can reach the highest levels possible¨ he stated.
In March 2022 he was appointed the representative of all athletes of the continent in his discipline to the Pan American Gymnastics Union, re-elected in the position in 2024 and this year he was elected athlete representative to the FIG, a position he has held to make Aerobic Gymnastics visible in the Pan American scenarios.
Its beginnings
When she was four years old, she learned about gymnastics, her first steps were in the artistic discipline in a school in her native Parras de la Fuente, four more years passed when she had to move to Saltillo, another city in Coahuila located in the northwest.
However, economic limitations prevented him from continuing with the sport for two years, it was until he was ten years old that a teacher saw great potential in him. He returned but now with a twist that made him rethink the panorama of what he knew as gymnastics until then, the ranks of Aerobic Gymnastics met for the first time the man who would later become his world reference.
With his body as a paintbrush, he has transformed every surface in the world into a canvas of competition. At 34 years of age, he closes a facet, a life that filled his beloved Mexico with honor and glory.
