MADRID, 5 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The soccer player Alexia Putellas, the former basketball player Amaya Valdemoro or the Paralympic swimmer Teresa Perales are on the list of the 100 most influential women in Spanish sports, according to the ranking prepared by the Women’s Sports Institute.
At the ceremony held this Monday, the president of the Institute, Carlota Castrejana, and the former golfer and member of the jury, Marta Figueras Dotti, announced the hundred members of the prestigious list. The ranking includes the most outstanding women in seven categories: sports figure, Paralympic athlete, revelation athlete, manager and businesswoman, coaching staff, sports journalist and investigative professional.
In the first of these categories, the names of Alexia Putellas, Almudena Cid, Amaya Valdemoro, Ana Peleteiro, Carolina Marín, Paula Badosa, Ona Carbonell, Laia Sanz or Sandra Sánchez, among others, stand out. While among the most influential Paralympic athletes are Teresa Perales, Susana Rodríguez, Eva Moral or Anastasiya Dmytriv.
There is also room for Aitana Bonmatí, Salma Paralluelo or Raquel Carrera, as revelation athletes. In the managerial or business sector, they do not forget Asunción Loriente, president of the Spanish Rowing Federation; Marisol Casado, president of World Triathlon; or Beatriz Álvarez, president of League F. In addition, in the technical section, the presence of Laia Palau, sports director of Girona Basquet; or the futsal coach, Claudia Pons.
Dotti acknowledged that it was “difficult” to draw up the complete ranking, leaving out many athletes who “deserved” to be on the list. “The idea is that there is rotation and that the maximum possible can enjoy an appointment like this,” he explained about possible changes in future editions of the ranking.
The former golfer stressed the importance of understanding that behind each athlete there is “a great team”, for which she asked to value “all those who are very important and are not so well known”.
For his part, Castrejana recalled the “long road” that remains to be traveled in women’s sports and how important it is to “know how to tell the stories” that surround it so that it can improve “through the media.” “We must continue working for the specificity of women’s sports and take care of the product of it, that is our main objective,” she explained.
“There is so much to play in women’s sport for our future generations that it is a great challenge and benefits from the base to the top,” he concluded.
The one hundred members of the list will be recognized this Thursday at the ‘Top Women in Sports’ gala, in which a special prize will be awarded “for the career of a unique and highly influential woman in women’s sports.”