Blanca Manchón
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| Full name | Blanca María Manchón Domínguez | |||||||||||||
| Born | 6 March 1987 (age 35) Seville, Spain | |||||||||||||
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Blanca María Manchón Domínguez[a] (born 6 March 1987 in Seville) is a Spanish windsurfer.[1] She won the gold medal at the 2010 RS:X Windsurfing World Championships.[2]
After Blanca announced her pregnancy on 2016, her main sponsor dropped her. Seven months after giving birth, Blanca was proclaimed Champion of the Windsurfing World in the Raceboard Class! This courageous woman sailed onwards with the support of her family and friends and most importantly, her son Noah.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper Marca, Blanca criticised "the concept held that a sporting woman who becomes pregnant at age 29 is never again going to do anything, as if her career were finished.”
Blanca came back to competition. On one of her last tweets, she says: "8th in the World Cup The Chinese take the medals but I take that if you want YOU CAN! Super happy!!"
Notes[]
- ^ This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Manchón and the second or maternal family name is Domínguez.
References[]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Blanca Manchón". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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External links[]
- Blanca Manchon at World Sailing
- Blanca Manchón at Olympedia
- Blanca Manchon Dominguez at the International Olympic Committee
- Blanca Manchon Dominguez at Olympics.com
- Blanca María Manchón Domínguez at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- Spanish female sailors (sport)
- Spanish windsurfers
- Female windsurfers
- ISAF World Sailor of the Year (female)
- Olympic sailors of Spain
- Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
- Mediterranean Games medalists in sailing
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
- Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- RS:X class world champions
- Spanish yacht racing biography stubs