The Superior Sports Council announces a new edition of the CSD-Carrera Dual Awards
The deadline for submitting nominations will be open until March 16.
- They recognize the double sporting and academic merit of young Spanish athletes during the year 2025, in two large categories covering Secondary Education, Vocational Training and university education.
Madrid, February 4, 2026.- The Superior Sports Council has convened a new edition of the CSD-Carrera Dual Awards, corresponding to the year 2025, as published this Wednesday in the Official State Gazette.
These awards aim to recognize the effort and double merit of young athletes who combine their sports career with their academic training with excellence. As a novelty, this edition specifically includes the Professional Training of Middle and Higher Degree and the Higher Artistic Teachings.
In the Dual Talent category, athletes who have completed Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), Baccalaureate or Intermediate Vocational Training during the 2024/2025 academic year and who were born between 2007 and 2010 will be recognized.
For its part, the Dual Elite category will reward athletes who have completed university studies (Bachelor, Master or Doctorate), Higher Professional Training or Higher Artistic Teachings in the course 2024/2025.
The candidatures must be presented exclusively by the bodies with competence in sports matters of the Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla, through the Electronic Headquarters of the CSD.
The deadline for the submission of candidatures will remain open until the next 16 March.
Only one candidate may be submitted by category, including general data, information relating to the training dossier and the sports curriculum in national and international competitions.
Subsequently, an evaluation committee will analyze the candidacies and select the winners based on their academic and sporting excellence.
With these awards, the Higher Sports Council reinforces its commitment to the dual career, valuing and making visible the effort, talent, perseverance and conciliation between the academic and sports performance of young athletes in our country.
The dual career, not in vain, is one of the issues that the agency promotes through its High Level Athlete Care Program (PROAD) to ensure a comprehensive training.
Winners of previous editions
Swimmers Óscar Salguero and Anastasiya Dmytriv were the winners of the CSD-Carrera Dual Awards in their last edition, corresponding to 2024. Salguero, who graduated in Medicine, achieved paralympic bronze in Paris that year.
For her part, Anastasiya Dmytriv signed an outstanding year in sports – with one gold and two bronze medals at the Paralympic Games in Paris 2024 – and at the academic level, if applicable, at school age.
In the 2023 edition, the winners were the athlete Álvaro Martín and the judoca Marta Beorlegui.
In addition, in these years they have received an honorable mention from athletes such as the gymnast Inés Bergua, the canoeist Tania Álvarez, the haltera Marta García Rincón, the skater Héctor Díez, the waterpolist Unai Lema, the golfer Andrea Revuelta and the swimmer Jian Wang Escanilla.
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