The road began to be built by the prestigious sailor Gonzalo Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba Larios, a member of royalty and a great of Spain. He was the first from Malaga to participate in the Summer Olympics. It was in Rome’60, the Games of the XVII Olympiad. From there to Rio’2016, those of the XXXI Olympiad, the entire Malaga Olympic history is concentrated. 40 athletes have participated in 17 different sports, more than half of the Olympic program. Swimming takes the cake, with seven. Athletics, the other king of the Games, reaches five. Then come handball (four), soccer (three) sailing (three), taekwondo (two), field hockey (two), badminton (two), basketball (two), volleyball (one), judo (one), rhythmic gymnastics ( one), weightlifting (one), golf (one), tennis (one), karate (one) and horse riding (one).
Among the medalists there are seven from Malaga (eight if we count Regino Hernández in the winter of PyeongChang). The last was Marta Lopez in London’12, with the bronze in handball. Before, Berni Rodriguez contributed to Beijing’s historic silver ’08 in basketball. The adoption of Torremolinos, Nina Zhivanevskaia, scored a bronze in Sidney’00 in the 100 meter backstroke and Antonio Carlos Ortega placeholder image, one of the best athletes from Malaga in history, was bronze in handball. It was the Australian edition that accumulated the most Malagueños (12). A third of those who participated were there. Theresa Zabell, the most awarded Malaga Olympian, added two golds in sailing. In Atlanta’96 and Barcelona’92, his two appearances. In the home games he also won gold Maria del Carmen Barea, in field hockey. They are the seven Spanish medals. Also Elena Benitez he won taekwondo in Barcelona, but it was still an exhibition sport.
In Tokyo, four athletes will be released, two of them in disciplines where there were not yet professionals from the province in the Olympic Games. Alejandro Davidovich in tennis and Damián Quintero in karate. The other two who will make their debut in a date of this size are Sole López and Paula Ruiz.
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