Claudio Zupo

Claudio Zupo Gutiérrez (22 September 1984 – 24 July 2020) was a Mexican judoka.

Zupo participated in the 2005 and 2006 Pan American Championships; he won a bronze medal at the 2006 Pan American Judo Championships in the openweight category, and a silver medal at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games in the team category.

[4] After his withdrawal from the tatami, he served as trainer in the Sonora State Sports Commission (Codeson), and later as coordinator of the high-performance gym in Hermosillo, Sonora.

[2] Zupo died in his native Sonora on 24 July 2020, aged 35, from COVID-19, during the pandemic in Mexico.

His family claimed that he had been fired from the Codeson when he tested positive for COVID-19.