Enriqueta Basilio

Norma Enriqueta "Queta" Basilio Sotelo (15 July 1948 – 26 October 2019)[1][2] was a Mexican track and field athlete.

[3][4] She was a national athletics champion and record-holder in 80 metres hurdles and finished seventh in this event at the 1967 Pan American Games.

[3] She married the basketball player Mario Álvarez, who was later secretary to the Oaxaca state governor.

She studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and became a federal deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during the LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

[3] On 15 October 2020, the small moon of trojan asteroid 3548 Eurybates was named Queta after her, making her the first Olympic athlete honored in this way.

Enriqueta Basilio carrying the Olympic torch and lighting the cauldron, becoming the first woman in Olympic history to do so.