After a table tennis exhibition performed in her school when she was eight years old, Granadian Yolanda Enríquez decided to start practicing this sport. In 2016 she became Junior Champion of Spain, but she has also achieved the victory beyond the Spanish borders. She won the teams gold medal in the Guatemala Junior Open of […]
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José Manuel Ruiz Reyes, a champion with an extensive background in Paralympic table tennis
The games in Rio de Janeiro will be his sixth Paralympic games. Table tennis player José Manuel Ruiz Reyes, from Guadix (Granada) is a world and European champion. He won a silver medal at the games in Sydney in 2000 and a bronze 12 years later in London. He also plays in the Superdivision at […]
Jorge Ramos, the Andalusian junior table tennis champion having overcome a rare illness
Jorge Ramos, Lebrija, has just become Andalusian Table Tennis junior champion. At barely 2 years old, he showed the first symptoms of an illness that caused necrosis from the top of both femurs. Then the diagnosis came in: Perthes disorder, a rare disease which affects one in 10,000 children. He went through various doctors, he […]
Gonzalo Rodríguez, breaking limits to become a champion of table tennis
Gonzalo is 17 and from Seville. She has to live with a disease which obstacles the normal development of his muscles. He claims that table tennis has drastically changed his life for the best because it has taught him to overcome difficulties. All his effort has been rewarded in the last Championship of Spain, where […]