Jesús Hernández Hernández

Jesús Hernández Hernández (born 27 October 1991) is a Mexican Paralympic swimmer and politician.

He represented Mexico at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where he won a bronze medal in the 50 meters backstroke S4 event, and at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, where he won a gold medal in the 150 meters individual medley SM3 event. He also participated at the 2019 Parapan American Games, where he won two gold medals and two silver medals.

Early life Jesús Hernández Hernández was born on 27 October 1991, in Juan Rodríguez Clara, Veracruz, and was raised in Sinaloa, the State of Mexico, and Irapuato, Guanajuato. He has spastic cerebral palsy, a congenital shoulder malformation, and a defect in the fourth lumbar vertebra, which affects his limbs, leaving him tetraplegic in the superior part of the body, preventing him to raise his shoulders. Also, he has myelomeningocele.

Sports career 2015–2016: Rio Summer Paralympics He competed at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, Canada, in the 50-meter freestyle S4 event, where he finished fourth.

2017–2021: Tokyo Summer Paralympics Hernández competed at the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico City, Mexico. He won three medals, one silver at the 50 m backstroke S4 event, and two bronze medals at the 50 m freestyle S4 and 200 m freestyle S4. At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, England, he did not advance for the medals in the 50 m freestyle event.

At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hernández won a gold medal in the 150 m individual medley SM3 event, as well as two bronze mesals in the 50 breaststroke SB2 and 200 m freestyle S3 categories. earned silver in the 50 m backstroke S3 and 50 m freestyle S3 events, and bronze in the 50 m breaststroke SB2 category. He received the National Sports Award, in the Paralympic Sports category that year.

At the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships in Manchester, England, he finished eighth in the 100 m freestyle S4 event. At the 2023 Parapan American Games, in Santiago, Chile, he won a silver medal in the 50 m backstroke S4 event, and a bronze medal in the 150 m individual medley SM4 category.

At the 2024 Summer Paralympics, he competed in the 50 backstroke S4 event, ending eighth.

Political career In 2024, he was elected to the Congress of Guanajuato as a Proportional representation representative of the National Action Party (PAN), becoming the first state legislator with a disability to assume office.