Marisa Centeno Carrasco (born 16 August 1970) is a retired Spanish
rhythmic gymnast. She's a European and World bronze medalist.
Biography
Although born in Madrid, she has always lived in the city of
Alicante
Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in th ...
, with the exception of the period in the national team. She began practicing rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 8 at the Club Atlético Montemar in Alicante.
Marise was incorporated into the Spanish 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.
By 1986, with the retirement of
María Fernández and several of her teammates, she became a starter of the new group. That she year won bronze at the
European Championships
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in
Florence, along
Eva Obalat,
Natalia Marín Natalia may refer to:
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* Natalia (Spanish singer) (born 1982)
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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.
Since 1987 groups started to compete with two routines, thus the creation of event finals.
That year, at the
World Championships in
Varna, Centeno won bronze in the All-Around and with 3 hoops and 3 balls, finishing 4th with 6 balls, along
Natalia Marín Natalia may refer to:
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* Natalia (Belgian singer) (born 1980)
* Natalia (Greek singer) (born 1983)
* Natalia (Spanish singer) (born 1982)
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,
Mari Carmen Moreno
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,
Marta Pardós
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,
Astrid Sánchez
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and
Elena Velasco, with
Ana Carlota de la Fuente and Ana Martínez as substitutes.
At the end of September 1987, Centeno retired with fellow Alicante gymnast Ana Martínez. Both argued lack of motivation due to the lack of compensation for the effort they made.
From 1990 to 1991 she studied as secretary of computer management at the
Fundesem Business School in Alicante. From September 1991 to April 2012, she held several positions in the commercial department of the group of companies of the Alicante Dock Restaurant. She also trained as a professional expert in tourism sector management at UNED (2008) and in general accounting at Fundesem (2013), in addition to doing a course in Digital Marketing at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (2015) and Community Management at FUNED (2015).
After Emilia Boneva's death on 20 September 2019, Marisa 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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1970 births
Living people
Spanish rhythmic gymnasts
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships