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Personal information | |
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Birth name | Hilda Eliana Tenorio Patiño |
Born | Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico | June 11, 1986
Height | 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Bullfighting |
Rank | Matador |
Bullfighting career | |
Début novillero | October 10, 2003 |
Alternativa | February 28, 2010 |
Hilda Eliana Tenorio Patiño (born June 11, 1986)[1] is a Mexican bullfighter and matador. She was the first woman to receive her alternativa in the Plaza de Toros México, the largest bullring in the world, aged 24.[2][3] Tenorio completed her alternativa on February 28, 2010.[4] She has been an outspoken advocate of feminism in the sport.[5] She is the third Mexican woman to attain the rank of matador.[5]