A disease called idiopathic osteopathy and the 23 operations she had to go through reduced the mobility of Raquel Domínguez’s arms. However, this Sevilian has been thirteen times Adapted Swimming Champion of Spain and World Duathlon Champion. Now she has focused her sports career on triathlon. “I am not an example of anything”, assures Raquel. […]
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Jairo Ruiz, a pioneer in Spanish Paralympic triathlon
Almerian Jairo Ruiz won the first Paralympic medal of Spanish triathlon in Rio 2016. His bronze medal was a landmark in the history of this sport, which he began to practise in 2011, after having practised swimming and taekwondo when he was a child. He has a malformation in his left arm, but that has […]
José Manuel Quintero, a young rising talent of Paralympic sport
When he was thirteen, José Manuel Quintero ended up in a wheelchair due to a medical failure that caused him a spinal injury. Just a few years later, this young man from Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz) claims that sport is his medicine. Over the last years he has won several trophies in swimming, aquathlon […]
Alejandro Albacete, Almería’s landscape turned into an Alpine Triathlon circuit
He practises sports since he was a little boy and today, Alejandro Albacete, considers himself a sportsman and a nature lover. When he started to get interested in competition he realised that it was very expensive, that’s why he decide to make the most of Almería’s landscapes and climate. He has decided extreme routes in […]