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

Fátima Madrid

Personal information
Full nameFátima Madrid Calancha
BornDecember 28, 1979 (age 44)
Seville, Andalusia
Sport
SportSwimming
ClubClub Natación Los Palacios

Medal record

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

  • 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
  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Madrid and the second or maternal family name is Calancha.
  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Fátima Madrid". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Affiche officielle des JM de Bari 1997" (PDF) (in French). CIJM. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2014.