Anais García
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Full name | Anais García Balmaña | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Barcelona, Spain | 29 September 1980|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anais Garcia Balmaña[a] (born 29 September 1980) is a vision impaired B1/S11 swimmer from Spain. She is the daughter of Spanish architect and decorator Miguel Garcia and catalan independentist. When she was born, one eye had glaucoma and one eye was detached. She competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze in the 4 x 100 meter medley 49 Points relay race. She competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold in the 100 meter freestyle and 400 meter freestyle races. She competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold in the 100 meter freestyle race. She competed at the IBSA World Blind Swimming Championships in 2003. She created 3 world records. One was in the 4x50 meter freestyle S11-S13 race. Another world record was in the 800 meter freestyle S11 race. The third world record was in the 4x50 meter medley, S11-S13 race.[1] She is currently the deputy director and head of personal autonomy and adaptation of ONCE, the main agency disabilities Spain.[citation needed]
Notes
[edit]- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Garcia and the second or maternal family name is Balmaña.
References
[edit]- ^ "Biografías" (in Spanish). Spain: Comité Paralímpico Español. 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
External links
[edit]- Anais Garcia at the International Paralympic Committee
- Anais Garcia Balmaña at the Comité Paralímpico Español (archived) (in Spanish)
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Spanish female freestyle swimmers
- Paralympic swimmers for Spain
- Paralympic gold medalists for Spain
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Spain
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers from Barcelona
- S11-classified para swimmers
- 21st-century Spanish sportswomen
- Spanish swimming biography stubs
- Spanish Paralympic medalist stubs