Eva Obalat Mangrané (born 5 July 1969) is retired Spanish
rhythmic gymnast and chief executive officer. As a gymnast she's a double European bronze medalist.
Biography
Eva took up gymnastics at the age of 6, later joining the Zaragoza Rhythmic Gymnastics School Club. In 1979 she won a bronze medal in the individual All-Around of the 3rd category in the
Spanish Championships
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in Madrid. In 1982 she was 4th in the All-Around of the 2nd category in
Palencia. From 1982 to 1983 her family moved to
Venezuela, so she had to give up gymnastics for a year, upon her return in 1983 she rejoined the Zaragoza Rhythmic Gymnastics School Club.
In the spring of 1984 she entered the Spanish rhythmic gymnastics national team, training at the Moscardó Gymnasium in Madrid under the orders of
Emilia Boneva and the group coach, Ana Roncero, Georgi Neykov was the team's choreographer and Violeta Portaska was the pianist in charge of providing live music for the routines.
That year Eva along
María Fernández Ostolaza,
Pilar Domenech,
Virginia Manzanera
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Biography
Virginia began practicing rhythmic gymnastics when she was 9 years old at the Club ...
,
Nancy Usero and
Graciela Yanes
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, in addition to
Rocío Ducay and
Ofelia Rodríguez as substitutes, won bronze at the
European Championship in
Vienna. After this achievement, they were all awarded the Medal of Gymnastic Merit of 1984 from the
Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation that was given to them in 1985 in a ceremony presided over by
Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, Duke of Cádiz, then president of the COE.
In the
World Championships in
Valladolid in 1985, along
María Fernández,
Pilar Domenech,
Ofelia Rodríguez,
Nancy Usero and
Graciela Yanes
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, with
Ester Domínguez,
Rocío Ducay,
Laura Manzanera and
Estela Martín as substitutes, Spain was 7th in the All-Around.
By 1986, with the retirement of
María Fernández and several of her teammates, she became the captain of the new group. That she year won another bronze medal, this time at the
European Championships
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in
Florence, along
Marisa Centeno
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Biography
Although born in Madrid, she has always lived in the city of Alicante, with the exc ...
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Estela Martín, Ana Martínez and
Elena Velasco. A month later they traveled to
Tokyo to compete in the
World Cup Final, where they achieved 4th place.
After his retirement she lived in
Dublin for 18 years. In June 1990 she became executive director of Aupair Study Centre, an Irish company dedicated to hosting au pairs, where she remained until August 2006. After her return to Spain, in June 2005 she began working as executive director at Catalan Ways, a company specialized in tourist accommodation in
L' Ampolla and of which she is also the owner.
After Emilia Boneva's death on 20 September 2019, Eva and other former national gymnasts gathered to pay tribute to her during the
Euskalgym held on 16 November 2019, the event took place before 8,500 attendees at the
Bilbao Exhibition Center de
Baracaldo and was followed by a dinner in her honor.
References
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1969 births
Living people
Spanish rhythmic gymnasts
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships