Marina Paliau will go out at the Rio Olympic Games to defend the gold won in London 2012.

Marina Paliau is one of the great references of the Olympic Team. He arrives in Rio 2016 with the intention of defending the Olympic gold achieved in London 2012. In its third Olympic Games, at its 31 years, it has reached the highest degree of maturity at all levels, sports and personal. After winning the gold medal in Weymouth he decided to be a mother and take a year of sports rest, then return with strength and concentration to the final straight with the mind set in Rio.

Although he began to take off from a young age, at the age of 14 he already won his first world in the category of children, his career for an Olympic square began for the 2004 Athens Games, although it was not classified, he did so consecutively in the following three: Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Its palmarés is its reference, five continental titles (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012) and one world or medal (2009), two plates (2006 and 2014) and two bronces (2008 and 2011). It was the only medal of the Spanish delegation in the Olympic Sailing Worlds held in Santander in 2014.

It has not been easy to reach the highest, his great rival and companion of the CN Sevilla, has been Blanca Manchón, Olympic diploma in Athens and pentacampeone of the World Cup, but the fact that there can be only one representative per country, makes the selection when there are two crews so strong, much harder and more demanding.

Marina works with three coaches Alex Guayader, Nicolás Beudou and Elliot J. Carney.

DNI
Name: Marina
Last name: Paliau Neira
Place of birth: Seville
DOB: 31 / 08 / 1985
Club: Real Club Nautico Sevilla
Height: 1.66 m.
Weight: 59 kg.
Residence: Tarifa
Studies: Tourism
Olympic Games: Third Games

PALMERS
Olympic Games
1st London 2012 - Gold
4th Beijing 2008 - Diploma
World
1st 2009 - Gold
2nd 2006 and 2014 - Silver
3rd 2011 - Bronze
European
1st 2007 - Gold
1st 2008 - Gold
1st 2009 - Gold
1st 2010 - Gold
1st 2012 - Gold

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Spain has been classified for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in nine of the ten Olympic sailing classes, all but the Finn. The Laser Radial class has been the last to get the classification, which is not yet defined the regatists that will represent Spain and that will be decided during the Kieler Woche, race to be held from 22 to 26 June in Germany. A total of 270 regatists from 62 countries will participate, apart from Brazil as host nation, only France, Britain and the United States have classified all classes, ten. They follow you with nine Spain, Australia, Argentina, Canada and Italy.

The Spanish Olympic Vela Team, which runs Toni Ripoll, presents itself to the great Olympic event of Rio 2016 as the sport that has given Spain the most medals in all history, a total of 19 medals, 13 of them gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze, and 25 diplomas. The regatists and classified classes are RS: X Women, Marina Paliau; RS: X Male, Ivan Pastor; Laser Standard, Joaquin Blanco; 470 Female, Bàrbara Cornudella and Sara López; 470 Male, Jordi Xammar and Joan Herp; 49er, Diego Botín and Iago López Marra; FX, Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos and Nacra 17, Fernando Echávarri and Tara Pacheco.

2016 RIO VELA - GUIA OF THE MARINE SPECTOR DA GLORIA