This week the first Adapted Bow European Cup of the season, which took place in the Czech town of Nove Mesto, with a total of 117 participating athletes, from 32 countries (10 of them from outside the European continent).
The Spanish national team traveled last Saturday, July 2, in order for the athletes to adapt before facing official training day in an expedition made up of two athletes in the compound open category, the Aragonese goalkeeper Fernando Galé and the Madrid goalkeeper Adrián Martínez, who, in the last qualifying round, proved to be at a high level, in line with their performance this season, which is being very good.
Together with them, they traveled to New town Almudena Gallardo, technical director of the Royal Spanish Archery Federation and head of Adapted Arch, as well as Marcos Gallardo, as coach of the national team.
Y it was not just any tournament, neither the success of the Spanish team has been any success. Adrián and Fernando have brought a bronze medal from the Czech lands, after defeating France by 150-147.
Against all odds
Actually, the thing about Adrián Martínez is a point and followed in a sports race in which he is determined to show that sport is one of the keys so that a degenerative disease is not a decrease when it comes to doing what everyone likes the most.
Adrián suffers from a mitochondrial disease, a pathology still considered a rare disease that could rob him of his energy, but he has decided to be high performance athlete in canoeing, archery, and whatever they throw at him. Her degenerative spastic parapessis coupled with mitochondrial disease seem to have even been an incentive in her life to make things even better.
Also, He is the author of the book ‘A Journey of Hope’. With illustrations by Adrián Ruiz, it is his first literary work, which arose from the idea of creating a theatrical performance for children and young people at the Fundación Instituto San José, Hermanos de San Juan de Dios in Madrid, so that they would understand and give visibility to this type of minority diseases such as the mitochondrial ones, “because from a very young age I live and live with these pathologies because in my family my brother and I suffer from it”, he explains.
new sport event
Now, fresh from the Czech Republic, he is preparing for the European Championship of Adapted Archery, which will be held from August 2 to 8 in Rome, and whose qualifier is held in Madrid on July 16 and 17.
