Fátima Madrid

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

Career

Fátima Madrid competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay, alongside her teammates Blanca Cerón, Susanna Garabatos, and Claudia Franco. A year later the Spanish relay team including Blanca Cerón, Fátima Madrid, Ana Belén Palomo, and Claudia 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 personal coach, and in 2010 she published a book on health and prevention.

Bibliography

• 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

References

External links

• Spanish Olympic Committee: Atlanta games
• Spanish Olympic Committee, personal data
• personal data

1996 Spain Olympic swimming team
Men's Competition	José Luis Ballester Juan Benavides Marc Capdevila Joaquín Fernández Frederik Hviid Martin López-Zubero
Women's Competition	Lourdes Becerra Blanca Cerón Bárbara Franco Claudia Franco Itziar Esparza Susanna Garabatos Fátima Madrid Ivette María María Olay Silvia Parera Eva Piñera María Peláez