María Teresa Paredes, Fernando del Villar and María Luengas. RFESS
Three Lifesaving and Rescue athletes will receive the Olympic Laurel at CIPREA 2024
Teresa Paredes, Fernando del Villar and María Luengas are recognised by the COE for winning gold at least three times in World Championships
Three Lifesaving and Rescue athletes will receive the Olympic Laurel within the framework of the fourth edition of the International Congress on Drowning Prevention #CIPREA2024, which will be held in Cordoba between 18 and 20 October.
The distinction of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) recognises, in this case, “Olympic or non-Olympic athletes who have been proclaimed World Champions at least three times or equivalent in the absolute category”, according to its Regulations of Distinctions.
Fernando del Villar Cuerda, on four occasions, and María Teresa Paredes Fargas and María Luengas Mengual, on three occasions in each case, have been World Champions in various events.
Villar has been in four different events between 2004 and 2006. She won the World Championships in the 100m combined and 4x50m hurdles swimming (Viareggio -Italy-, in 2004) and 50m manikin tow (Geelongo-Austalia-, 2006) and in the 4x25m manikin tow at the World Games (Duisburg-Germany-, 2005).
María Teresa Paredes won the 150-metre boat race in Vittel (France) in 1972, in Barcelona in 1974 and in Berlin (Germany) in 1976.
María Luengas also won three gold medals in the same event, 100m lifeguard, in Adelaide (Australia), 2012, Montpellier (France), 2014 and Eindhoven (Holland), 2016.
The #CIPREA2024, organised by the Royal Spanish Lifesaving Federation, is the most important meeting at European and Latin American level and the second in the world in the field of drowning prevention.
In this edition, the work, with five papers, two round tables and more than seventy communications and posters, is structured around nine thematic areas: prevention, statistics, education and sport, rescue, health, natural disasters, migrants and refugees, innovations and employment.04.10.2024.
