Eva Moral: “I hope my story inspires athletes who want to be mothers”

• The triathlete Eva Moral reflects on maternity and conciliation in the second interview that the Higher Council of Sports (CSD) broadcast this week on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

• She is one of the 351 athletes who have benefited from the maternity support and conciliation offered by the CSD since 2014.

Madrid, March 4, 2025.- The triathlete Eva Moral is the second protagonist of the series of interviews that the Higher Council of Sports (CSD) is spreading this week, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on Saturday, March 8.

Maternity and conciliation in high-level sport are the topics addressed by Eva Moral in an interview in which she shares her inspiring story, marked by an accident while practicing sport and her resurgence to become a medallist in the Paralympic Games of Tokyo 2020.

“The day of the accident occurred a weekend like any other. I decided with a colleague of the club to make a cyclotourist march in the Sierra de Madrid,” he recalls, “but that day the destination had reserved for me this little adventure.”

“It started to rain, I slipped with the bike, I hit a scaffold, I jumped over and there was a seven-meter canyoning. I thought I had completely paralyzed my life there,” he says. What he found, however, was the unanimous support of the world of sport, its sporting resurgence and the possibility of making the dream of being a mother a reality.

“When I had the accident, that idea went out of my mind,” says Eva Moral. “More than anything, for something as selfish as thinking about how I was going to bring someone into the world while I was in a wheelchair. It’s an absurdity, but that’s what you’re seeing over the years,” she says about her decision to become a mother.

Maternity brought with it the “fear” of not finding a good state of shape or losing sponsors after being a bronze medalist in Tokyo 2020, but the truth is that Eva Moral, one of the athletes benefiting from maternity aid and the conciliation offered by the CSD since 2014, remains one of the best triathletes in the world.

“There are few sporty moms and, in addition, little is said about motherhood in high-level sport. That is why I believe that we must give more visibility to this issue and to everything that comes after it, such as breastfeeding or the psychological support that we need the sport mothers. I hope that my story will help future generations of athletes decide to become mothers without fear,” Eva Moral wants.

In order to promote maternity and conciliation, the CSD has been offering since 2014 two aid lines from which 351 athletes have already benefited. Among them, Eva Moral. Your testimony is already available on the YouTube channel and on CSD social networks: https://youtu.be/fkijZMdsAyk

The commitment to equality in sport

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, this Saturday, March 8, the CSD will organize an institutional event that will include a colloquium between the athletes Aauri Bokesa, Ana Ortega ‘Furria’, Eva Moral, María Vicente and Patricia García and the installation of several sports stations so that girls, boys, young people and adolescents can practice sports together with their referents.

This activity, open to the general public, will close a day of claim on the role of women in sport that will begin at 11:45 hours in the sports hall located on the -2 floor of the CSD institutional building.

As an institution charged with promoting public sports policies, the CSD maintains a strong commitment to equality, either through the promotion of initiatives that promote women’s participation in sport, the visibility of women’s referents or support for specific programmes that promote real equality in the sports field.