MADRID, 1 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Paralympic Objective Sport Support Plan (ADOP) of this 2023 will have a total of 165 beneficiaries, including athletes and technicians, who will be able to benefit from aid to have the best conditions in their preparation for the next Paralympic Games year in Paris.
As reported this Wednesday by the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), among the scholarship recipients are 78 athletes with different disabilities (visual, physical, intellectual or cerebral palsy); nine support athletes who have the same consideration as the athlete, cyclist or triathlete they accompany, and another 78 coaches and technicians, belonging to 12 of the 22 modalities that are part of the summer Paralympic programme.
The sport with the largest number of members is swimming, with 23, and with well-known names such as Marta Fernández, Núria Marquès, Toni Ponce, Anastasiya Dmytriv, Sarai Gascón, Íñigo Llopis, Óscar Salguero, Miguel Luque and Teresa Perales . Athletics has 21, including Adiaratou Iglesias, the Gerard Descarrega-Guillermo Rojo couple, Kim López, Yassine Ouhdadi, Sara Martínez, Iván Cano and Héctor Cabrera.
Cycling, another sport that is usually very successful, has twelve representatives with figures Alfonso Cabello, Ricardo Ten, the tandem Christian Venge-Noel Martín, Sergio Garrote and Eduardo Santas, while the couples Susana Rodríguez-Sara Loëhr and Héctor Catalá- Gustavo Rodríguez, Eva Moral and Andrea Miguélez are among those who will receive help in the triathlon.
Two veterans such as Jordi Morales and Álvaro Valera, from table tennis, are also on a list that includes four canoeists (Juan Antonio Valle, Higinio Rivero, Adrián Mosquera and Adrián Castaño), three judokas (Sergio Ibáñez, Daniel Gavilán and María Manzanero) and two tennis players (Martín de la Puente and Daniel Caverzaschi). Cristina Sánchez (badminton), Amagoia Arrieta (boccia), Judith Rodríguez (fencing), Dalia Santiago (taekwondo) and Juan Antonio Saavedra (shooting) are other scholarship recipients.
These beneficiaries of the ADOP Plan will receive financial aid that fluctuates between 2,750 and 300 euros per month for athletes with disabilities and support, “depending on their projection”, and between 1,150 and 300 for their technicians. This represents an annual investment in scholarships of close to two million euros, recalled the CPE.
In addition, this plan, launched in 2005, also makes available to athletes a complete system of services focused on optimizing their preparation, such as doctors, physiotherapists, physiologists, psychologists or nutritionists, and, as a novelty in this cycle, has incorporated science and technology through devices that carry out systematic training measurements and comprehensive individualized ‘R&D’ evaluations for performance optimization.
The CPE stressed that “the philosophy of the ADOP Plan is to maintain and increase the success of the Spanish Paralympic Team in the future and that is why these aids and services are focused on preparation” and that access to their scholarships “depends on the projection of success that the athlete can achieve in the following Paralympic Games, in this cycle those of Paris 2024, and in no case is it considered a prize for the results obtained in the past”.
“The Decision Panel, made up of the CPE, the Higher Sports Council and the sports federations, is the body in charge of studying all the requests and establishing the options for success of each athlete based on their most recent results, their position in the world ranking, their progression and any other aspect that may influence their performance,” the organization added.
The ADOP Plan is a joint initiative of the CSD, the Ministries of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, and of Finance, the ONCE Foundation and the CPE. The scholarships and services it offers are possible thanks to the contributions of a series of public entities and private companies that are committed to promoting Paralympic sport such as Cofidis, Dingonatura, State Lotteries and Betting, Telefónica, Toyota, CaixaBank, ALDI, Allianz, AXA , ElPozo Alimentación, Gadis, Iberdrola, Ilunion, Luanvi, Pascual, Renfe, Sanitas and RTVE.
