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Fátima Madrid

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Fátima Madrid
Personal information
Full nameFátima Madrid Calancha
Born (1979-12-28) December 28, 1979 (age 44)
Seville, Andalusia
Sport
SportSwimming
ClubClub Natación Los Palacios
Medal record
Representing  Spain
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1997 Bari 4x100m freestyle relay

Fátima Madrid Calancha[a] (born 28 December 1979)[1] is a coach and a former freestyle swimmer from Spain.

Career

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Madrid and the second or maternal family name is Calancha.

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Affiche officielle des JM de Bari 1997" (PDF) (in French). CIJM. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2014.
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