They are visible faces of the dMadrid sport. Their careers are full of successes and they want to complete them with a great performance in 2021, where some, Bruno Hortelano, Fernando Carro, Diego García, Eva Calvo, Niko Sherazadishvili, Lucía Jiménez, Carlos Llavador, Sandra Aguilar, Laura Martínez, Jesús Tortosa , have their mind set on Tokyo Olympics.
Others have the Paralympic Games as his great goal, like Sara Andrés and Camino Martínez, and where the soul of Atlético de Madrid, Koke Resurrección, a Madrid from Vallecas looks at the Eurocup football, where he hopes to be the engine of the Spanish selection.
Bruno Hortelano
Bruno Hortelano (1991), although he had to divide his childhood between Australia and Canada, he considers himself one hundred percent from Madrid.
He is the current national record holder for the 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters and the 4 × 100 relay. At European Athletics Championships In 2016 he was proclaimed champion in the distance of 200 meters.
Bruno Hortelano changes training and nutrition with a view to Tokyo
Days after completing the best season of his career in the Rio 2016 Olympics, Hortelano suffered a severe traffic accident. Your way between Tokyo 2020 Olympics It has not been easy, but he faces his present with optimism and his future, with dreams to fulfill.
He trains hard to try to fight for a medal in 200 meters in Such: “I have dreamed of that, if I do not dream it is difficult for it to happen”, he confessed, admitting that his goal “in terms of possibility” of getting on the podium will be 200. “It is what I have chosen to dedicate myself this year and little bit”.
Joana Pastrana
Joana Pastrana (Madrid, 1990) became in 2016 the first woman in history to win the European championship boxing of minimum weight, a title that he revalidated in 2017 and 2020. In June 2018 he won the IBF world title of minimum weight, which has been revalidated until adding three.
Joana Pastrana, from waitress to world champion
Joana prepares for 2021 with the idea of being placed as number one or number two to try again the assault of the World championship, a still distant undertaking, which first requires defending the European championship belt for the fourth time.
Fernando Carro
Fernando Carro (Madrid, 1992), Spanish record holder of 3,000 meters hurdles and silver medalist in the last European Championship of 2018, they are very clear that the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 “society needs them” and for athletes they will be “the light at the end of the tunnel” after living a “very complicated” 2020.
Car dreams of a medal in Such. A dream that you have at your fingertips and that could come true in just a few months. After achieving the runner-up of Europe in Berlin and beat the Spanish record of 3,000 obstacles in the Monaco Diamond League, feel that Tokyo Olympics They come to him in the best moment of his sporting life.
Fernando Carro: Medal in Tokyo? There is an option, yes ”
“In Rio I was too young and inexperienced and my nerves betrayed me, but now I feel that I can compete much better and give my best,” he says. Fernando Carro.
Guerrilla fighter and with a great capacity for improvement, Fernando Carro he is not satisfied with a secondary role in the Games: “I am among the eight best in the world, so getting into the grand final is practically an obligation.”
Eva Calvo
Eva Calvo she was runner-up in Rio 2016. As soon as she came back from Brazil He decided to move up one category and fight in -67kg, a category in which he has won three Spanish Championships.
Eva, She has been champion of Spain since 2009, uninterruptedly in all categories that is has presented, 62, 57 and 67 kilos, respectively. He has also won international medals in all three categories.
Eva Calvo, the queen of taewondo
With knee injuries (three operations), Eva Calvo intends to be in Such and he trains, fights and prepares for it, with little luck in the three most important international events, but meeting above-average goals in the rest, despite his stoppages.
I am Sherazadishvili
He was world champion in 2018 and has finished 2020 leading in -90 kg. At just 24 years old, the Georgia-born Madrilenian Nikoloz Sherazadishvili he became a world champion in judo in 2018.
Sherazadishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1996), which is currently preparing for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic challenge, has as sports and human references figures such as Iker Casillas, Rafa Nadal or his coach Quino Ruiz (who, in his time, became European champion and world runner-up in judo).
Who is Nikoloz Sherazadishvili
The judoka dand Brunettes does not shy away from the enormous pressure of being one of the best medal options in Spain in Such and maintains its maximum ambition intact a few months before the great Olympic event in the capital of Japan, the cradle of judo.
Lucia Jimenez
Lucia Jimenez (January 8, 1997) is the great promise of spanish field hockey. At his age, he already has about a hundred games with the Spanish selection, She has won a World League, has been named best player in the Iberdrola League and participated in the 2016 Olympic Games.
Before field hockey, he tried it with paddle tennis and indoor football. And he had a good example in athletics – his father was runner-up in the world in 3,000 meters on the indoor track.
Carlos Llavador
Carlos Llavador (Madrid, 1992) is undoubtedly responsible for the resurgence of Spanish fencing has been the Madrilenian who, after winning bronze in the Wuxi World Cup (China), already has on the horizon Tokyo Olympics.
Key ring is currently very well positioned for the dream of Tokyo 2021 to come true. “Right now I am classified in the absence of Gran Prix, If I manage to get in, I will try to prepare myself in the best possible way. Although I will have to talk to people from other countries to help me prepare, since I train with the Italians and they will have to focus on their team. “
Sara Andres
Sara Andres (Madrid, 1986) suffered a major traffic accident when he was 25 years old. His love affair with Paralympic athletics began five years ago.
The following year, the Madrilenian managed to participate in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: “I competed in the 400-meter, 200-meter and 100-meter events. In 2017, at the London World Championship, I managed to be third in the world in what were my favorite events: the 400 meters and the 200 meters.”
Sara Andrés, a story of overcoming
In his mind there is nothing but Tokyo Paralympic Games: “I am very ambitious and I want a medal, and if it is gold, better. I think I can get it with one more year of preparation.
Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia Carrera (January 19, 1996) is called to pick up the baton from the greats of the Spanish march. He is the current European Absolute runner-up in the 20 km march despite his age.
From 2013 to the present, he has continuously won European and world medals in minor categories. On the horizon, Diego García has Tokyo 2021: “All my life I have dreamed of something that seemed impossible, now the dream of going to the Olympics is beginning to come true.”
Diego García, a walker with a lot of march
The athlete does not hide that “being an Olympian is the dream” of his life. “I do athletics precisely motivated by the possibility of competing in some Games and I would not like to forget my dream when for so many years it has seemed so difficult, “he says.
Therefore, you do not want it to be seen as “an undemanding goal” after the success you achieved two years ago in Berlin. “We must not forget where we come from, what is the dream that has brought us here and once I manage to be an Olympian, fight for the maximum and hopefully it will be a medal, what leaves athletes in the memory and about everything that gives our country visibility and an important name “, he remarks.
Koke Resurrection
Jorge Resurrection Merodio (Madrid, 1992) known sportingly as Boil, is the engine of Atlético de Madrid, his soul red and white.
It has been years since both Atlético de Madrid as Simeone they realized the importance of Boil in the team. Now it seems that much of Spain and Luis Enrique They have also realized that he may be the footballer who sets him on the road to Spanish selection in the next Eurocup.
Laura Martinez
Laura Martinez (December 1, 1998) is the jewel of Spanish judo. In October 2019 the silver medal in the category of up to 48 kilos was hung at the age of 18 in the Junior World Cup in Zagreb. A month earlier, it had also been silver in the European.
He studies physiotherapy at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Alcorcón. Laura It is clear to him: “Not fighting for what you want has only one name, and it’s called losing.”
Laura Martinez She is one of the two Spanish women competing for the Olympic place in this category. Julia Figueroa, now off due to injury, fourth in the world rankings and Martínez, eighth. Only one competitor per country and weight is allowed.
Jesus Tortosa
Jesus Tortosa He was a finalist in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Taekwondo U21 European Champion in 2017 and bronze in the World Championship the same year.
The Madrid taekwondo player considers that this extra year of preparation for the Tokyo Olympics, an appointment to which he will now arrive “with more maturity, more experience and in better shape” to try to find the long-awaited gold in the -58 kilos category.
Jesús Tortosa: “The goal in Tokyo has to be the medal”
Tortosa knows that if the appointment had not been postponed, he would have already been able to fulfill his “dream of being in some Olympic Games and go out to that stadium full of people “, and although he has” many medals in important championships “, he does not forget that his goal” is to get a gold “in the Japanese capital.
Martinez Way
Martinez de la Riva Road (Madrid, 1994) is a swimmer with intellectual disability who has accumulated numerous international triumphs, including four gold medals and one silver in the last world championships of her modality.
Camino considers that it would be “a challenge” to go to Tokyo 2021 Paralympic Games. However, he explains that people with intellectual disabilities are grouped into a single category and that “it is not the same as someone with down syndrome than an autistic “.
Swimming changed Camino Martínez’s life
The Madrilenian swimmer claims that people with down syndrome they can attend this event, even as an exhibition and to achieve visibility.
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