In Spain we can boast of highly awarded Paralympic athletes. In this post we tell you more about some of them.

Sport is a perfect environment to develop many physical and mental qualities in a climate of healthy competitiveness. The good thing about this activity is that it can be done by anyone to take advantage of its benefits. Athletes with different abilities find sport the perfect setting for their personal development.
Paralympics are the best reference where we meet people who have managed to make sport a way of self-improvement. We have a quarry of Paralympic athletes who can boast both track records and any athlete with normal functionality.
The Paralympic Games were created in 1960 promoting equal treatment between athletes from all over the world. His background can be found in the sporting events held for veterans since 1948. Due to the great variety of abilities, there are a large number of categories in this competition that is organized in parallel with the Olympic Games.
The incredible record of Spanish Paralympic athletes
In Spain we can boast of highly awarded Paralympic athletes. For example, it is worth mentioning the Zaragoza swimmer Teresa Perales who has managed to get up to 27 medals (of which 7 are gold) in five Paralympic competitions. She highlights the special atmosphere that she finds in competitions and the special relationship between athletes.
A neurological disease caused immobility in his lower extremities and in swimming he found the perfect means to achieve self-improvement. This sport since then became the main passion of his life. She is one of the most important athletes in our country.
David Casinos has up to five medals won in the last five Paralympic games. This 48-year-old Valencian has a spectacular record of four gold medals in his record. Practice the discipline of throwing weight in the modality of adapted athletics. A diabetic retinopathy caused him total blindness, but he continued to practice athletics which was his great hobby from adolescence.
It also has a multitude of awards in the European and world level of this sports discipline, showing its strength and courage.
Ricardo Ten suffered the amputation of both arms and one leg due to an accident with a high voltage cable. The story of this Valencian is quite special for his jump from swimming to cycling. It has more than 100 medals in national competitions, 13 European and 7 world championships. In addition, he has won up to 7 medals at the Paralympic Games (three of which are gold).
Not having enough to be awarded in swimming at the age of 42 he decides to go cycling where it seems that his career is still as promising being part of the Spanish team and already having up to eight medals.
Adapted swimming seems to be the sport where you can find more success for Spanish Paralympic athletes. Sarai Gascón has 6 medals in her record won at the Paralympic Games held since 2008. Originally from Terrassa, this athlete trusts that Paralympic sport will one day represent effective economic, social and media equality.
Elite athletes with functional diversity
His career started in a national competition and from there it was a non-stop. This girl who was born without her left forearm found that water was a medium in which she was especially comfortable and that has led her to become an elite athlete.
Jon Santacana stands out in a sports modality that may seem surprising: alpine skiing. It has up to nine medals (three of them gold) obtained at the Paralympic Winter Games between 2002 and 2018. To this are added the surprising number of 17 medals in international competitions between 2009 and 2017.
Born in San Sebastián 39 years ago, he suffered from Stargardt disease as a child, causing visual impairment. This has not prevented him from becoming one of the skiers who are a world reference for many athletes.
The list of Spanish Paralympic athletes still continues. We can name Nuria Marqués, Michelle Alonso Morales, Ariadna Edo, Gerarddownload, Marta Arce among many others to whom we can thank her example of effort and self-improvement.