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Blanca Manchón

Personal information

Full name

Blanca María Manchón Domínguez

Born

6 March 1987 (age 37)
Seville, Spain

Height

163 cm (5 ft 4 in)

Sailing career

Class

RS:X

Medal record

Women's sailing

Representing Spain
Mediterranean Games
	2018 Tarragona	RS:X

Blanca María Manchón Domínguez (born 6 March 1987 in Seville) is a Spanish windsurfer.^[1] She won the gold medal at the 2010 RS:X Windsurfing World Championships.^[2]

After Manchón announced her pregnancy on 2016, her main sponsor dropped her. Seven months after giving birth, Blanca was proclaimed Champion of the Windsurfing World in the Raceboard Class! This courageous woman sailed onwards with the support of her family and friends and most importantly, her son Noah.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper Marca, Blanca criticised "the concept held that a sporting woman who becomes pregnant at age 29 is never again going to do anything, as if her career were finished.”

She came back to competition. On one of her last tweets, she says: "8th in the World Cup The Chinese take the medals but I take that if you want YOU CAN! Super happy!!"

Notes

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Blanca Manchón". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
^ "Blanca Manchón is the World Sailor of the Year 2010". surfertoday.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.

External links

Blanca Manchón at World Sailing
Blanca Manchón at Olympedia (archive)
Blanca Manchon Dominguez at Olympics.com
Blanca Manchon Dominguez at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
Blanca Manchon Dominguez at Olympic.org (archived)
Blanca María Manchón Domínguez (and here) at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)

v t e World champions in women's RS:X
2006: Alessandra Sensini 2007: Zofia Klepacka 2008: Alessandra Sensini 2009: Marina Alabau 2010: Blanca Manchón 2011: Lee Korzits 2012: Lee Korzits 2013: Lee Korzits 2014: Charline Picon 2015: Chen Peina 2016: Małgorzata Białecka 2017: Chen Peina 2018: Lilian de Geus 2019: Lu Yunxiu 2020: Lilian de Geus 2021: Lilian de Geus

ISAF World Sailor of the Year (female)

1994: Zabell
1995: Autissier
1996: Lee
1997: Taran & Pakholchyk
1998: Brouwer
1999: Matthijsse
2000: Robertson
2001: MacArthur
2002: Bekatorou & Tsoulfa
2003: Sundby
2004: Bekatorou & Tsoulfa
2005: MacArthur
2006: Railey
2007: Leroy
2008: Sensini
2009: Tunnicliffe
2010: Manchón
2011: Tunnicliffe
2012: Xu
2013: Aleh & Powrie
2014: Grael & Kunze
2015: Ayton
2016: Mills & Clark

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