ATHLETE PROFILE

Adiaratou was born in Bamako, Mali, in 1999.

In 2010, she left the country as a consequence of local superstitions surrounding albino people, and moved to Logroño, where her brother and his wife lived. She suffers from albinism, which gives her 10% of vision that by wearing glasses can be reduced to approximately 20%.

Adiaratou, due to alleged abuse at home, was placed in an orphanage where she stayed for 2 years until she was adopted and moved to Lugo with her adoptive family.

She won two silver medals at the 2019 World Adapted Athletics Championships. In addition, holds the Spanish record in the 100m in the T12 category, achieving a time of 12.42 seconds during the Grand Prix of Athletics in Grosseto, and again lowered that time at the World Championships in Dubai, where she was runner-up with a time of 11.99.

Adiaratou represented Spain at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, winning the gold medal in the 100m T13 class and the silver medal in the 400m T13.
 

TITLES OF THE ATHLETE

Paralimpics Games Triatlon:
•GOLD medal Paralimpic Games (Tokyo 2020)

ATHLETE PROFILE

Susana Rodríguez was born with a very severe visual impairment due to a genetic condition known as albinism which affects 1 in 20.000.
The passion for the care of humean health started when Rodriguez was only a kid; In 2009, she ended her physiotherapy degree in Vigo University and in 2015 she graduated in medicine at Santiago de Compostela University becoming the first blind person in the country to achieve this goal. In 2016 she started to work at Santiago de Compostela Univesitary Hospital as an intern in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Since childhood, she has combined a strong dedication to her studies with the determination of becoming one day a good athlete. In 1998 as a 10 year old girl Rodriguez had the first opportunity of entering a sports competition event and got to know the world of adaptive sports after a teacher of ONCE (Spanish National Organization of Blind People) observed in her good qualities for running and long jump. She started her sports career as a sprinter in Para Athletics achieving junior world titles but faund a big obstacle in 2008 when having the required qualifying time she was not finally selected to participate at Beijin Summer Paralympic Games.

Rodriguez switched her sports career to Paratriathlon in 2010 and by now she has achieved 52 intenational podiums including 30 wins. In 2016 she competed at Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games with Mabel Gallardo, a sighted guide, finishing in a good 5th position that Susana wanted to improve.

In 2020 and after 4 years of combining professional training with her job at the hospital Rodriguez qualified to participate at 2020 Tokio Paralympics being the first Spaniard athlete to compete in two sports at the same edition of the Games (triathlon and athletics). In Japan all the hard work paid of and Susana became Paralympic Champion at the PTVI paratriathlon event alongside with her guide Sara Loehr. In addition, Rodriguez has obtained to date 8 medals at Paratriathlon World Championships (including 4 golds) between 2012 an 2021 and also 6 medals at European Championships (including 2 golds).

In 2016, Rodríguez competed in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with her guide Mabel Gallardo, finishing fifth in the individual triathlon event. She qualified to participate in the 2020 Summer Paralympics, being the first Spaniard to compete in two sports in the Paralympic Games: triathlon and athletics. She became the Paralym- pic triathlon champion in the PTVI class with her guide Sara Loehr. In addition, she became a candidate for the Athletes’ Council of the International Paralympic Commit- tee. Rodríguez won a gold medal at Tokyo 2020 in the PTVI category. In addition, she obtained seven medals in the Adapted Triathlon World Championship between 2012 and 2019, and six medals in the Adapted Triathlon World Championship between 2013 and 2019.

Susana believes when one dream is achieved a new one starts to grow so she is determined to keep working hard in order to create new opportunities of success.

TITLES OF THE ATHLETE

Paralimpics Games:
•Paralimpic Gold Champion Triatlon (Tokyo 2020)

World championship Triatlon PVI:
•World championship 2012 (Auckland)
•World championship 2018 (Gold Coast)
•World championship 2019 (Laussanne)
•World championship 2021 (Abu Dabi)

European Champion:
•European Champion 2014 (Kitzbuhel)
•European Champion 2019 (Valencia)

World Ranking (1) 2021

European Champion:
•European Champion 2014 (Kitzbuhel)
•European Champion 2019 (Valencia)

ATHLETE PROFILE

My name is Eva Moral, International paralympic Athlete that belongs to the Spanish national team.

My career starts in 2013, at that moment I had an accident that produced me a serious medular injury.

Now I fight for my dream… Paris Paralympic Games 2024.
The road with good friends is always easier and better.

¿Do you want to come with me?

TITLES OF THE ATHLETE

Paralimpics Games Triatlon:
•Bronze medal Paralimpic Games (Tokyo 2020)

World championship Triatlon PVI:
•Bronze medal in 2016
•Bronze medal in 2017

European Champion:
•Gold medal 2021
•Silver medal 2016
•Silver medal 2017

7 Times Spanish champion
(2014 and 2019)

SPORT PROJECTS SPAIN BRAND

Nowadays the great economic powers at an international level, in addition to the emerging powers, are using sports as a very powerful selling tool to sell their brand. This model is facilitating the development of a thriving sports industry in those countries by boosting the economy and creating a large number of jobs related to sport. In this very competitive scenario, several states have begun to develop a very solid strategy that involves the implementation of government programs to increase the sports level and to be able to sell it internally and externally.

Our model is based on the Spanish sports success model. Specifically, in the Spain Brand sale and our pride through sport, generating business opportunities for the Spanish sports sector through the transfer of sports knowledge in international markets. This allows promoting the values that represent the sport and that are associated to our country adding more value to our brand. Spain is considered as a great sporting power on the international scene, data that is reflected as the fact that it had not left the 15th place in the medal of countries since the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992. We have great sportsmen in different modalities, besides being a reference and guide to follow in many sports. We also have great professionals in the sports world in many areas that can transfer their knowledge to other countries; generating as a consequence, a very powerful industry for Spain that the different Sports Federations should use as platforms of sale and execution with the support of organizations like the Superior Council of Sports and Liga4Sports.

Badminton school Carolina Marin and Fernando Rivas in Hyderabad (India)

In 2021, will be inaugurated the first badminton School of the athlete Carolina Marin and her coach Fernando Rivas at this country. This school opens with the aim of transferring the knowledge that has turned the Spanish athlete and her coach into key references in the sport of badminton at an international level; Carolina Marín is considered one of the best players in history in a sport without tradition in our country, and Fernando Rivas is considered one of the best coaches of badminton today and a true innovator in this sport. The school will be run by local Indian coaches who will be trained by Spanish coaches under the supervision of Fernando Rivas and Carolina Marín. Students will be able to start in the school from level “0” which is the basic initiation course and reach the level “5”, which is the last advanced course of improvement, where they will have to approve five intensive training courses in technique and tactics. With this school, it is planned to train top Indian athletes and coaches to reach the top in international competitions, as well as being educated in social values of respect and commitment to others.

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ATHLETE PROFILE

Carolina Marin is a badminton athlete born in Huelva on June 15, 1993. She started playing badminton at the IES La Orden in her hometown and with 14 years went to live in Madrid to train in the Center of high performance of the Higher Council of Sport, after his current coach, Fernando Rivas, discovered her in a championship of Spain badminton. A year after arriving at Madrid in 2009, she got her first medals and from there she began to write her history as one of the best badminton players of history with four absolute European Championships, three absolute World Championships and the gold at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. She has also won several top international tournaments as the prestigious All England in 2015 and has become the number one player in the world in 2015, a position she has held for several months. Something that has never been seen up to date in a non-Asian player. Carolina is the youngest player in history to get a world championship at the age of 21.

TITLES OF THE ATHLETE

Olympic Games:
• Olympic Champion in Brazil 2016 (Rio de Janeiro)

World Championships:
• World Champion in 2014 (Copenhagen)
• World Champion in 2015 (Yakarta)
• World Champion in 2018 (Nankín)

Europe Championships:
• European Champion in 2014 (Russia)
• European Champion in 2016 (France)
• European Champion in 2017 (Denmark)
• European Champion in 2018 (Spain)

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ATHLETE PROFILE

María Pérez was born in Orce (Granada) in 1996. He began practicing race walking at school, at the age of 11, under the direction of Jacinto Garzón, who has been his coach ever since. .
She participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, placing fourth in the 20 km event.
In 2022 she participated in both the World Championships and the European Championships, but was disqualified on both occasions for irregular walking.
In March 2023 he broke his Spanish record in the 20 km by more than a minute over the course of the Spanish Championships. In May, she managed to break the 35 km world record with a time of 2:37:15 during the European Team Championships, where she also won the gold medal with the Spanish national team. That same year she was crowned two-time world champion by winning the 20 km race with a time of 1:26:51, ahead of Australia’s Jemima Montag and Italy’s Antonella Palmisano, and the 35km ahead of Kimberly García and Antigoni Drisbioti.