{"id":618936,"date":"2025-07-29T19:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=618936"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:07:37","slug":"mexican-twins-lia-cueva-mia-cueva-win-worlds-medal-at-just-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/mexican-twins-lia-cueva-mia-cueva-win-worlds-medal-at-just-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Twins Lia Cueva, Mia Cueva Win Worlds Medal at Just 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mexican Twins Lia Cueva, Mia Cueva Win Worlds Medal at Just 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re 14. They\u2019re twins. Their names rhyme. And they\u2019re World Championship medalists.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the introduction that the global aquatics community has gotten to the Mexican synchro diving pair of <strong>Mia Cueva<\/strong> and <strong>Lia Cueva,<\/strong> which added some hardware Tuesday when they took bronze in the women\u2019s 3-meter springboard synchro.<\/p>\n<p>In their biggest competition yet, twins from Mexico finished third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-china-sweep-golds-with-bronze-for-u-s-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in their biggest event at the World Championships<\/a>. The duo\u2019s score of 294.36 had them in medal position the entire way, 30 points back of the Chinese gold-winning pair of <strong>Chen Jia<\/strong> and <strong>Chen Yiwen,<\/strong> with Great Britain\u2019s <strong>Yasmin Harper<\/strong> and <strong>Scarlett Mew Jensen<\/strong> second.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QZXZhvuDlCA?si=Ky_My_7UAQFIhSCQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a dream to be able to be there with the Chinese, Great Britain, and everyone else who competed,\u201d Mia Cueva said. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true because we\u2019ve watched them since we were little, and the dream is coming true. <strong>Osmar<\/strong> (<strong>Olvera<\/strong>) is a great diver, a great friend, an example and inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The twins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldaquatics.com\/news\/4287721\/meet-mexicos-twin-sensations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made their debut<\/a> on the World Cup circuit in the spring, winning silver in Guadalajara in this event. 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Mia finished 22nd on 3-meter in Guadalajara and 19th in Windsor. The 1-meter board may be her best individual, finishing seventh on the lower board in Singapore earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not the only divers in the family. Older sister <strong>Suri Cueva<\/strong> competed at the junior world championships in Rio de Janeiro last fall, an event that the then 13-year-old twins were too young for.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, there\u2019s a connection between the Cueva sisters on the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes we can read each other\u2019s minds,\u201d Lia said. \u201cWe say to each other \u2018we can do it!\u2019 and \u2018vamos!\u2019 in between dives. Before each dive we go to our coach <strong>Ivan Bautista.<\/strong> He tells us that we can do it, he tells us to think about how we want it to go, he tries to calm us down and motivate us so that we do well. He tells us to go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mexico didn\u2019t qualify a springboard synchro pair for the Paris Games. They have a stellar women\u2019s platform duo in <strong>Gabriela Agundez<\/strong> and <strong>Alejandra Estudillo,<\/strong> which won a silver medal in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aranza Vazquez<\/strong> is an accomplished springboard diver who took bronze on 1-meter in Fukuoka in 2023. Vazquez and Maria Fernandez Garcia will compete in 3-meter in Singapore. But for one of the world\u2019s preeminent diving nations, the Cueva sisters are likely to play a significant part. And in a meet where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/yu-zidi-chasing-89-year-old-record-for-youngest-medalist-at-a-global-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the spotlighted swimmers is a 12-year-old<\/a>, the 14-year-olds from Mexico have carved out space for themselves in a big way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican Twins Lia Cueva, Mia Cueva Win Worlds Medal at Just 14 They\u2019re 14. They\u2019re twins. Their names rhyme. And they\u2019re World Championship medalists. 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