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Name: Santiago. Surname: Sanz Quinto. Birthday: 18 de septiembre de 1980. Place of birth: Albatera (Alicante). Residence place: Albatera, Alicante (España). Height: 176 cm. Weight: 51 Kg. |
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Disability:
Charcot Marie Tooth since
18 months. Santi began to has problems in his gait pattern and his parent
contact with the doctors of "La Paz" (Madrid)) hospital.
Finally the doctors confirms his disease "Charcot Marie Tooth". It affects 1 of every 2500 people in every age. Progressively the disease evolved and at 13 he began to use the chair to move.
Since 13 began to race like a funny hobbie is his village courses. Since this moment had the dream of been a professional racer... More about Charcot... |
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Racing chair: Eagle SSOlympic
Everyday Chair: Eagle Tornado Titanium
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| Training place´s: Alicante´s Sport Training Center, Elche´s athletics stadium, road courses around Albatera. |
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Academic curriculum:
Graduate in Sports Sciencies
by Valencia´s University (1998-2003). Speciality in High perfomance (athletics)
and Special population. National athletic coach
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Hobbies: Read training
books, training planification, terror cinema and spanish cinema, fantastic
literature, to do the cooking and listen rock music.
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A dream: Get a gold medal
in Beijing. A
reality: The proffesionalism in wich i live at present.
Something to improve: My character (I´m so much temperamental). A Virtue: My agony capacity and try to be perfect in training subjects.
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| Something to detach: My daily steadiness (I live for train), my family and girlfriend (they´re always supporting me), the tenacity of my technical group, my sponsors (without then it wouldn´t be real) and of course my friends and my village (a place to visit). |
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A Spetial sport moment:
The day which I did the limit for the 2000 Paralimpyc games in Murcia (Spain).
I remember it was a spetial evening. The track was slow and when I did the
first lap my father told me “Santiago 65´´” and I thougth “now or never” and
I finish 800m in 2´07´´69 and the limit for go to Sidney was 2´07´´70. I
won´t forget this competition never beause it opened the door of the event
which would change my life.
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A Sport moment to forget:
My injury in 2002 January and don´t go to the 1998 world Championships in
Bhirminghan in spite of did the best world time in 1500m 3´57´´26.
Your Favourite event: I like so much 800m. A Training session which fascinate me: 6×600m at max. A Training session which I hate: 25Km K1 (Run in the Aerobic zone 2,5 Lactate Mmol). The Harder training session: 2000+1500+1000+500+200 National favourite competition: Bilbao Half Marathon International favorite competition: Peachtree (Atlanta,USA), Lilac Bloomsday and Summer Down Under (Sydney, Australia
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