Triathlete Brenda Osnaya is setting lesbian proposal standards high!
The Team Mexico paralympian held up a sign reading, “¿Te quieres casar conmigo?” (“Will you marry me?”) as she crossed the finish line in Paris Monday.
Osnaya’s girlfriend, Jessie González, who is also her coach, was quick to say yes. The two were pictured smiling together by the finish line of the PTWC triathlon at the Pont Alexandre III.
31-year-old Osnaya is a historic para-athlete in Mexico. She became the first Mexican woman to compete in the para triathalon in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where she finished fifth.
This year, Osnaya said she was seconds away from placing fourth, but was ultimately disqualified from the race for not fulfilling penalties. She received two ten-second penalties, one for blocking and one for being pushed by the handler past the white line.
Osnaya acknowledged and served one of the penalties, but says she was unaware of the second one until she crossed the finish line. Her team protested the disqualification, but to no avail.
“When we got to the finish line crossing in fifth place, I was told a judge was reviewing it because we had a second warning,” she said in an interview to Conade, Mexico’s National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport. “There was misinformation and confusion over the two penalties and I felt the second penalty was unfair.”
Osnaya is now looking toward the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics. But until then, she’s happy to leave Paris with her new fiancée.
“I was happy because I knew I had already achieved my goal of being in the top five,” she said. “But asking my partner to marry me makes me happy, too.”
Osnaya isn’t the first to pop the question in the City of Love this olympic season. On Sunday, Paralympian Alessandro Ossola proposed to his girlfriend Arianna Mandaradoni.
