Mexico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900 and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since 1924. Mexico has also participated in several Winter Olympic Games since 1928, though has not yet won any medals in the Winter Olympics.
At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Gustavo Huet made history as the first Mexican athlete to win an Olympic medal officially for Mexico, earning silver in the men's 50 metres small-bore rifle prone shooting event. However, at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Mexican athletes won a bronze medal in the polo event, consisting of the three brothers Eustaquio, Manuel and Pablo Escandón. Since an American athlete, Guillermo Hayden Wright, was also part of the team, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially attributes this medal not to Mexico, but to a mixed team.
At the 1948 Summer Olympics, Mexico claimed its first Olympic gold medals in equestrian jumping, where both the individual and team titles were decided based on the same competition results.
Mexican athletes have won a total of 77 medals, with diving as the top medal-producing sport.
The National Olympic Committee for Mexico is the Mexican Olympic Committee and was created in 1923.
Mexico was the first Latin American nation to host the Olympic Games on one occasion.
JoaquÃÂn Capilla is the Mexican athlete with the most medals, four, and the first Mexican athlete to obtain medals in three consecutive games, while Humberto Mariles is the only double Olympic champion, also the Mexican athlete with the most medals at a single Olympic games, with three in 1948, and got Mexico's first gold medal.
In 2016, MarÃÂa Espinoza became the first Mexican female athlete to win a medal in three consecutive games.