Fátima Madrid
Fátima Madrid Calancha[a] (born 28 December 1979 in Seville, Andalusia)[1] is a coach and a former freestyle swimmer from Spain.
Career[]
Madrid competed for Spain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay with her teammates Blanca Cerón, Susanna Garabatos and Claudia Franco. A year later, the Spanish relay team including Cerón, Madrid, Ana Belén Palomo and Franco finished first at the Mediterranean Games.[2]
She was a member of the swimming club Club Natación Los Palacios in Seville. In 2000, she started a new career as a personal coach and, in 2010, she published a book on health and prevention.
Bibliography[]
- Fátima Madrid Calancha, En salud, más prevenir que curar. Guía práctica para un bienestar físico y sobrevivir al S.XXI. Publicaciones Vértice SL, 2010, 90 p., ISBN 978-84-9931-062-6
Notes[]
- ^ This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Madrid and the second or maternal family name is Calancha.
References[]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Fátima Madrid". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ^ "Affiche officielle des JM de Bari 1997" (PDF) (in French). CIJM. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2014.
External links[]
- Spanish Olympic Committee: Atlanta games
- Fátima Madrid Calancha at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
- Fatima Madrid at the International Olympic Committee
Categories:
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Spanish female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Spain
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
- Spanish swimming biography stubs