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| Full name | Blanca María Manchón Domínguez | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 March 1987 (age 36) Seville, Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Class | RS:X | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Blanca María Manchón Domínguez (born 6 March 1987 in Seville) is a Spanish windsurfer.[1] She won the gold medal at the 2010 RS:X Windsurfing World Championships.[2]
After Blanca announced her pregnancy on 2016, her main sponsor dropped her. Seven months after giving birth, Blanca was proclaimed Champion of the Windsurfing World in the Raceboard Class! This courageous woman sailed onwards with the support of her family and friends and most importantly, her son Noah.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper Marca, Blanca criticised "the concept held that a sporting woman who becomes pregnant at age 29 is never again going to do anything, as if her career were finished.”
Blanca came back to competition. On one of her last tweets, she says: "8th in the World Cup The Chinese take the medals but I take that if you want YOU CAN! Super happy!!"
Notes
References
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Blanca Manchón". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ↑ "Blanca Manchón is the World Sailor of the Year 2010". surfertoday.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
External links
- Blanca Manchón at World Sailing
- Blanca Manchón at Olympedia
- Blanca Manchon Dominguez at Olympics.com
- Blanca Manchon Dominguez at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Blanca Manchon Dominguez at Olympic.org (archived)
- Blanca María Manchón Domínguez at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)