Fátima Madrid Calancha (born 28 December 1979) is a coach and a former freestyle

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Career

Madrid competed for Spain at the

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. She was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay with her teammates Blanca Cerón, Susanna Garabatos and Claudia Franco. A year later, the Spanish relay team including Cerón, Madrid, Ana Belén Palomo and Franco finished first at the

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. She was a member of the swimming club ''Club Natación Los Palacios'' in Seville. In 2000, she started a new career as a personal coach and, in 2010, she published a book on health and prevention.

Bibliography

* Fátima Madrid Calancha, ''En salud, más prevenir que curar. Guía práctica para un bienestar físico y sobrevivir al S.XXI''. Publicaciones Vértice SL, 2010, 90 p.,

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Spanish Olympic Committee: Atlanta games
* * * * 1979 births Living people Spanish female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Spain Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 1997 Mediterranean Games {{Spain-swimming-bio-stub