The CSD magazine ‘Women and Sport’ pays tribute in its latest issue of the year to athletes who have announced their professional withdrawal in 2024

• In parallel to the end of the year, the ‘Women and Sport’ newsletter dedicates the most recent 2024 interviews to athlete Sara Martínez and to the weed hockey player María de los Ángeles Ruiz. Both have been dismissed this year from the sport at professional level.

Madrid, 20 December 2024.- The newsletter ‘Women and Sport’, with which the Higher Council of Sports (CSD) seeks to make visible all the women involved in the field of physical activity, dedicates its latest issue of the year to the athlete Sara Martínez and the hockey player Grass María de los Ángeles Ruiz, who announced this year their withdrawal from sport.

Sara Martínez is a reference in Spanish paralympic athletics and an example of overcoming it. Despite the bilateral corneal opacity, a genetic and hereditary disease that affects vision, at only 14 years old he participated in his first games in Athens.

With a brilliant European and global marshmallows, the athlete announced that Paris 2024 would be her last parallel date. There he reached the best of the finals: silver medal in long jump. Without dissociating himself from the sports world, Sara is currently in the position of Head of University Sports Section at the Sports Council. In the interview he reflects on all the dreams achieved and all the sacrifices made.

The other great protagonist of this issue is María de los Ángeles Ruiz, a weed hockey player who has been nominated twice for the best goalkeeper in the world and who has played 176 matches with the Spanish team. Among its achievements are the bronze medal at the 2018 World Championship, the bronze medal at the 2019 European and the Olympic diploma at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

On the other hand, physical and mental health revolves around the report about the Sports Medicine Center, which is responsible for the well-being of Spanish athletes.

This edition of the ‘Women and Sport’ newsletter also dedicates a space to the ‘Run For You’ project, which leads the Madrid athlete Carmen Giménez, a pioneer in participation in wheelchair marathons.

Here he shares his life story, marked by adversity. An episode of gender-based violence caused a spinal cord injury and the loss of his son Bruno, premature. Despite all this, he has found motivation in the sport and is set as an objective to complete the seven 'majors' of marathon and represent Spain in the Paralympic Games of Los Angeles 2028.

The other report revolves around ‘Universo Mujer III’, which closes its most successful cycle, with a total of 121 projects and 21,663,459 euros raised in donations. All based on five fundamental pillars: training, sports development, women's visibility, leadership and health.

She highlights her project Tour Universo Mujer, which has made it possible to make known in 2024 different disciplines and athletes in the cities of Las Palmas, Toledo, Madrid and Lleida.

With the publication of the newsletter ‘Women and Sport’, the CSD promotes the visibility of women in the field of physical activity and sport, in any area and level, turning athletes, coaches, referees and leaders in the protagonists of their pages.

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