Belem Guerrero

{{short description|Mexican cyclist}} {{family name hatnote|Guerrero|Méndez|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = Belem Guerrero | image = | fullname = Belem Guerrero Méndez | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|4|8|df=yes}} | birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico | height = | weight = | currentteam = | discipline = Track & road | role = Rider | ridertype = Endurance | amateuryears1 = | amateurteam1 = | proyears1 = 1999 | proteam1 = Acca Due O | majorwins = | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry | {{MEX}} }} {{MedalSport | Women's track cycling}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver | 2004 Athens | Points Race}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalSilver | 1998 Bordeaux | Points Race}} {{MedalBronze | 1997 Perth | Points Race}} {{MedalBronze | 2001 Antwerp | Points Race}} {{MedalBronze | 2004 Melbourne | Points Race}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalSilver | 1995 Mar del Plata | Points Race}} {{MedalSilver | 1999 Winnipeg | Points Race}} {{MedalBronze | 1995 Mar del Plata | Individual Pursuit}} {{MedalCompetition|Central American and Caribbean Games}} {{MedalGold| 2002 San Salvador | Points race}} {{MedalSilver| 2002 San Salvador | 3000m Individual Pursuit}} {{MedalSilver| 2002 San Salvador | Scratch}} {{MedalBronze| 2002 San Salvador | Road race}} {{MedalSport|Women's road bicycle racing}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Championships}} {{MedalGold|2002 Quito|Road race}} {{MedalBronze|2008 Montevideo|Road race}} }}

'''Belem Guerrero Méndez''' (born March 8, 1974, in Mexico City) is a Mexican former road and track cyclist who represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where she won a silver medal in the Women's Points Race.

She won the points race gold and the bronze medals in 3000m Individual Pursuit and road race during the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games, but failed the doping control with Pseudoephedrine and her medals were stripped.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-758968|title=Escandalo por dopaje de mexicanos|newspaper=El Tiempo|language=Spanish|date=1998-08-20|accessdate=2016-04-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/85359.html|title=Soraya, octava mexicana con problemas de dopaje|newspaper=El Universal|location=Mexico City, Mexico|agency=NOTIMEX|language=Spanish|date=2002-08-25|accessdate=2016-04-16}}</ref>

==Palmarès== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} ;1997 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships

;1998 :2nd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships

;1999 :2nd Points race, Round 5, Track World Cup, Cali

;2001 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :2nd Pan American Championships, Road, Medellin

;2002 :1st Pan American Championships, Road, Quito :1st Pan American Championships, Track, Individual pursuit, Quito :1st Pan American Championships, Track, Scratch, Quito :2nd Pan American Championships, Track, Points race, Quito :3rd Stage 4, Redlands Bicycle Classic :3rd Scratch race, Round 1, Track World Cup, Monterrey :1st Points race, Round 1, Track World Cup, Monterrey

;2004 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :2nd Points race, Round 1, Track World Cup, Moscow :3rd Points race, Round 3, Track World Cup, Manchester :2nd Points race, Summer Olympics

;2007 :1st Pan American Championships, Track, Points race, Valencia :2nd Pan American Games, Road, Rio de Janeiro :3rd Pan American Games, Points race, Rio de Janeiro

;2008 :3rd Copa Federacion Venezolana de Ciclismo :3rd Pan American Championships, Road :3rd Stage 4, Vuelta Ciclista Femenina a el Salvador, Lourdes {{div col end}}

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