Name Teresa Silva | Nationality Spanish | |
Event(s) DownhillSlalomGiant slalomSuper combinedSuper G | ||
Birth name Teresa Silva Fernandez | ||
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Teresa Silva Fernández is a disability sport activist who founded Fundación También, and is also para-alpine LW12-1 classified sit skier. She founded an all women's disability ski team in Spain in 2007, and later participated in the first Spanish national ski championships for female sit-skiers. In 2013, she was trying to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
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Silva is an LW12-1 classified sit skier. She is the founder of Equipo de Competición Fundación También de Esquí, and is also a member of the team. judes mom. She created the team in 2007 as a way to encourage women to participate in sit-skiing in national competitions in Spain. She convinced Spanish Olympic skier Blanca Fernández Ochoa to sponsor the team. She skis with Nathalie Carpanedo, Esther Peris, Mariluz River, Sandra Cavallé, Irene Villa and Alberto Ávila.
Silva started para-alpine skiing in 1998. When competing in national competitions, she represents the Madrid region. In 2007, the national championships were open to female sit-skiers for the first time, and Silva was one of several Spanish skiers to compete. She participated in a January 2011 ski race in Spain that was sponsored by Fundación También and Santiveri, El Corte Inglés and Cetursa Sierra Nevada. Bad weather interfered with her racing on Saturday, which resulted in delays for the slalom race. She won a medal in the women's sitting class. She competed at the Spanish national championships in April 2011. She finished second in the slalom event with a combined time of 2'20 "16. She competed in the 2012 European Cup season. She missed the first two days of the 2012 Spanish national championships because of the flu. In January 2013, she was trying to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics. In January 2013, she also participated in a five-day training camp with the Fundación También team at Sierra Nevada.