The height of Francisco Galindo’s basketball career came in 1948, when he was selected to represent Mexico at that year’s Olympic tournament in London. There, his nation lost the bronze medal match to Brazil and placed fourth overall; Galindo played in four of the team’s six matches. Although he was a doctor by profession, he did not abandon sport entirely in his later life, and was responsible for building the Gimnasio Municipal Luis L. Vargas during his tenure as mayor of his hometown of Gómez Palacio, Durango from 1956 through 1959. He later served as the director of the ISSSTE Hospital Medical Center, in Torreón, Coahuila, which was renamed in his honor following his death.
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