Simón Cruz Mondejar

Simón Cruz
Parabadminton

Personal information

Full name:

Simón Cruz Mondejar

Type of disability (class):

SL3

Nationality:

Spain

Birthday:

April 23, 1976

Society:

Club BadFlay

Medals

Badminton World Cup for the Disabled
	Guatemala 2011 Guatemala City	Single (STL2a)
European Badminton Championship for the disabled
	Germany 2008 Dortmund	Single (STL2a)
	Switzerland 2010 Filzbach	Double (STL2a)
	Switzerland 2010 Filzbach	Single (STL2a)
	Germany 2012 Dortmund	Single (SL3)
	Spain 2014 Murcia	Double (SL3)
	Spain 2014 Murcia	Single (SL3)
	Spain 2014 Murcia	Double (SL3)
	Netherlands 2016 Beek	Double (SL3)

last change: 2020-02-14

Simón Cruz Mondejar (born April 23, 1976 ) is a Spanish badminton player . He is left above the knee amputee and starts in Parabadminton in the main class SL3 in singles and doubles.

Athletic career

Simón Cruz suffered such severe leg injuries in a work accident in 1999 that his left leg had to be amputated above the knee. After his accident, he first started swimming, but later came to parabadminton and first took part in a Badminton World Cup for the disabled in Bangkok in 2007 . In 2008 Cruz won bronze at the European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Dortmund . Two years later in Filzbach , Switzerland , he won silver in doubles and again bronze in singles. At the 2011 World Cup in Guatemala City , Cruz reached the final, in which he was defeated by the South Korean Chang-Man Kim . In 2012 at the European Championships in Dortmund he won bronze in singles. In 2014 in Murcia he won gold in doubles with Jan-Niklas Pott and silver in singles against Daniel Bethell . At the 2016 European Championship in Beek , the Netherlands , he won silver in doubles with Marcel Adam .

Web links

Simón Cruz, el abanderado mundial del bádminton adaptado español , video interview on the YouTube channel Historias de Luz (Spanish, 1:59)

Individual evidence

↑ Simón Cruz: “Mi accidente me enseñó a valorar la vida. No cambiaría nada ”. In: que.es. Retrieved December 16, 2018 (Spanish).
↑ Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
^ Isabel Pacheco: Simón Cruz: "El bádminton me cambió la vida". In: La Razón . October 22, 2018, Retrieved December 16, 2018 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Cruz Mondejar, Simón
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cruz, Simón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	spanish badminton player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1976

[Que-1] Simón Cruz: “Mi accidente me enseñó a valorar la vida. No cambiaría nada ”. In: que.es. Retrieved December 16, 2018 (Spanish).

[Tournamentsoftware_BWF-2] Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Accessed February 16, 2020 .

[3] Isabel Pacheco: Simón Cruz: "El bádminton me cambió la vida". In: La Razón . October 22, 2018, Retrieved December 16, 2018 (Spanish).