Deborah Font Jiménez
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Born | El Vendrell, Tarragona, Spain | 6 September 1985|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deborah Font Jimenez (born 6 September 1985 in El Vendrell, Tarragona) is a swimmer from Spain.
Personal
Font was born 6 September 1985 in El Vendrell, Tarragona. She has a disability: she is blind.[1] She found a job with assistance from the Employment HPOD PROAD Program, which is supported by ONCE.[2] In December 2013, she attended an event marking Spanish insurance company Santa Lucía Seguros becoming a sponsor of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, and consequently Plan ADOP which funds high performance Spanish disability sport competitors. She chose to attend the event because she wanted to show support for this type of sponsorship.[3]
Swimming
Font is an B2/S12 classification swimmer.[1] When swimming, she has a "tapper" who taps her so she knows when she has to initiate a turn in the water.[4]
Font competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, where she earned a gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke race, and a pair of bronze medals in the 400 meter freestyle race and the 200 meter individual medley race.[1] She raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, and earned a silver in the 100 meter breaststroke race.[1] In 2007, she competed at the IDM German Open.[5] She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, and won a bronze in the 50 meter freestyle race.[1] Total, she has a gold medal, two silvers and four bronze medals from the Paralympic Games.[4]
In 2011, Font trained with Carla Casals.[6] She competed at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany where she won a bronze medal in the 100 meter breaststroke.[6][7][8] In 2012, she competed at the Paralympic Swimming Championship of Spain by Autonomous Communities.[9] She raced at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She was the number three swimmer in the 400 meter freestyle race.[1] She finished sixth in the 200 meter individual medley.[10] She competed at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships.[11][12] From the Catalan region of Spain, she was a recipient of a 2012 Plan ADO scholarship.[13] In November 2013, she competed at the Spanish Age Swimming Championships for blind and visually impaired.[14]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Biografías" (in Spanish). Spain: Comité Paralímpico Español. 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
- ^ "Tres medallistas paralímpicos obtienen trabajo gracias al Programa ADOP Empleo - Comité Paralímpico Español - Esto es DxT" (in Spanish). Spain: Estoesdxt.es. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ^ "RSC.-La aseguradora 'santalucía' renueva su compromiso con el Plan ADOP" (in Spanish). Spain: Europapress.es. December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2013.
- ^ a b "Los 11 de la ONCE" (in Spanish). MARCA.com. November 11, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- ^ "Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaften im Schwimmen" (in German). Berlin, Germany: Paralympischer Sport Club Berlin.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Malagaes.com (2013-07-18). "Noticias de Málaga : La andaluza Marta Gómez logra su segunda medalla de bronce en el Europeo de Natación Paralímpica — MALAGAES.COM 05/07/2011" (in Spanish). Spain: Malagaes.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
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- ^ "Miguel Luque suma el único metal del día. Natación/Paralímpicos" (in Spanish). Spain: Terra.es. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
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- ^ "Observatori Català de l'Esport OCE INEFC" (in Spanish). Observatoridelesport.cat. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
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- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Spain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Spain
- Paralympic gold medalists for Spain
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Paralympic swimmers of Spain
- Paralympic swimmers with a vision impairment
- Plan ADOP alumni
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- S12-classified Paralympic swimmers