Almudena Gallardo

Almudena Gallardo
Full name	Almudena Gallardo Vicente
nation	Spain
birthday	March 26, 1979
place of birth	Madrid ,  Spain
size	167 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Archery
society	Club Arqueros de Leganés
status	unknown
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor European Championship medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
last change: January 26, 2009

Almudena Gallardo Vicente (born March 26, 1979 in Madrid ) is a Spanish archer with the recurve bow .

Gallardo was appointed to the Spanish selection for the first time in the 1993/94 season and in 1996 set a world and European record in competition with 18 arrows as a junior , as well as a junior European record according to FITA rules. In 1997 she was vice European junior champion. She won a total of seventeen Spanish national championships, four of them among the juniors.

Gallardo took part - alongside her compatriot Felipe López in 2004 - as the only female archer in Spain at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and in Athens in 2004 in the individual competition. In Sydney she was eliminated in the first round and was placed 33rd, four years later she reached the third round, in which she lost to Evangelia Psarra with 160: 152, and was thirteenth. Before that she had defeated Chatuna Narimanidze from Georgia in round one and Jasmin Figueroa from the Philippines in round two . At the Student World Championships in 2004 she was second after a sixth place in 2000 and fifth place in 2002. In 2006 she was able to put herself in the limelight both at the European Indoor Championships in Jaén and at the outdoor competition in Athens. In the hall she made it onto the podium for the second time after 1998, and came third again. The top podium of the winners' podium belonged to her as European champion 2006. In the final, she defeated the Russian Tatjana Borodai with 101: 99. The year before, she had also secured the title in the individual competition at the Mediterranean Games in 2005 .

In 2007, Gallardo was awarded the Medalla de Plata des Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo (Silver Medal of Merit in Sport) of the Consejo Superior de Deportes (Spanish National Councilor for Sport).

Web links

• Almudena Gallardo in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Cuadro de Honor ( Spanish ) Club Arqueros de Leganés. January 1, 2009. Archived from the original on March 22, 2008. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
2. ↑ Women's individual archery results ( English ) BBC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - bbc.co.uk. August 13, 2004. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
3. ↑ Archery at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Women's Individual ( English ) Sports Reference LLC. 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
4. ↑ Archery - Indoor - European Championships (Olympic bow - recurve bow) . sport-komplett.de. 2005. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
5. ↑ Michael Frankenberg Vice-European Champion with the recurve bow . German Schützenbund eV - DSB. September 16, 2006. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
6. ↑ CENTRO DE EXPOSICION Y DOCUMENTACIÓN DE LOS JUEGOS MEDITERRANEOS ( Spanish ) Comité Organizador de los Juegos Mediterráneos Almería 2005. July 4, 2005. Archived from the original on May 24, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
7. ↑ La lancera del Club Arqueros Leganés Almudena Gallardo Medalla de Oro ( Spanish ) ecoleganes.org. July 5, 2005. Archived from the original on June 26, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
8. ↑ Winners 2007 - REAL ORDEN DEL MÉRITO DEPORTIVO 2007 ( English / Spanish ) csd.gob.es - Spanish National Sports Agency. May 7, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )