Garbiñe, Sandra Sánchez, Putellas: a year written in the feminine plural

Sport in 2021 has had a woman's name in Spain.

From Laia Sanz to Alexia Putellas, through Sandra Sánchez, Ana Peleteiro or Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish athletes have shone in their disciplines and have achieved triumphs that have hidden some other shadow that has also emerged in the universe of women's sports.

The

was the last great recognition. The Barcelona player became, on November 29 in Paris, the heir to Luis Suárez, the only Spanish footballer who had won that award, in 1960. In 61 years, no one had achieved it and the Catalan not only It is a pioneer among the Spanish women, but is among the five players who have this trophy whose female version only dates from 2018.

The success of Putellas, who beat her teammates

,

and Lieke Martens, is a consequence of her talent and the overwhelming dominance of her team.

FC Barcelona won its first Champions League in 2021, against Chelsea, swept the Iberdrola League and monopolized all the awards granted by UEFA, a body that named Putellas herself best player and best midfielder, Paños best goalkeeper and Irene Paredes and Jennifer Hermoso, the best defense and forward, respectively.

Alexia Putellas has made Spanish women's football resonate around the world, although there is still no agreement to fulfill the legislative mandate for the Spanish competition to acquire the status of professional competition.

But 2021 has brought so much more.

It started with Laia Sanz completing her last Dakar Rally on two wheels.

On the back of her motorcycle, and after overcoming an illness that put her participation in question, she finished in a creditable 17th place and, as always, as the first woman.

The Catalan also broke a record: finishing all her participations in this very tough rally.

Eleven consecutive times he has participated and has finished all editions, something that Spanish Dakar legends such as Marc Coma or

had not achieved

.

For 2022,

challenge

is the jump to four wheels.

Your traveling companion on the dirt roads will be a Mini.

THE OLYMPIC MEDALS

Summer brought the Tokyo Games, postponed a year by Covid-19, and the medals. Of the 17 achieved by the athletes covered by the Spanish Olympic Committee, six were achieved by women. Of the three golds, two were hung by Fátima Gálvez, in shooting, and Sandra Sánchez in the kata modality (the premiere of karate in some Games). In the temple of this sport, the Castilian-La Mancha was established as the best karate fighter in history. He has been competing since he was four years old, has never been off the podium in an international event since 2014, has accumulated six European championships and has been at the forefront of the world ranking for five years. This gold brought him to the fore, but his career in this sport was already shining.

The Spanish women's podium in Tokyo was completed, in the second step, by the silver medals of the very young taekwondista

, who at only 17 years old was about to be proclaimed Olympic champion, and the veteran canoeist Maialen Chourraut, runner-up in Slalom K- 1, whose replacement has been taken by Teresa Portela, who also returned with a medal.

By teams, the representatives of the women's water polo team gave a lesson in courage and improvement, but they could not defeat the United States and were one step away from closing the circle of their record with an Olympic gold to add it to the titles already achieved in the European and the World Cup.

THE FIRST MASTER

In the third step, the glory went to an athlete, the only one who hung a medal in the Olympic stadium in Tokyo. The Galician tripler Ana Peleteiro had to beat the Spanish record twice to get rid of the Jamaican

, who could not reach her 14.87 meters. The Spanish jumper could not get close to her friend and training partner, the Venezuelan

, who broke the world record, and neither to the Portuguese Patricia Mamona, but she fulfilled her dream of returning with a medal. Spanish athletics had a woman's name at the Tokyo 2020 Games and, in addition, that of a woman who has publicly stood against the inequality and discrimination promoted by some political parties.

The latest milestone in Spanish women's sports

. The tennis player was proclaimed the winner of the WTA Finals, the former Masters that each year face the eight best players in the world, and placed number three in the ranking. A Spanish woman had never won this title and only

was able to contest it until the final, in which she fell against Steffi Graf. It was in 1993, just the year in which Muguruza was born, which is already the best Spanish tennis player of the moment after adding this title of great teacher to those achieved at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in previous years.

Without being able to get on the podium, 2021 is closed by the girls of the Spanish handball team, fourth in the World Cup held in recent weeks in Spain.

The Warriors could not close their participation with the bronze medal award because they fell to Denmark, but they showed that there is a solid and very young base, with players with a lot of personality under the age of 24, which will allow them to fight for positions of honor. at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.

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