Women's sport

Alexia Putellas (Barcelona, 1994) is one of the best women's football players in the world, with two Ballon d'Or awards and two consecutive The Best Awards (2021 and 2022). A benchmark for the new generations, captain and leader of the midfield, Alexia is also the top scorer in the history of FC Barcelona, with whom she has lifted the first two Champions Leagues in the history of the Blaugrana thanks to her technical ability and vision of the game. Alexia is World Champion and was the captain of the Spanish National Team during the 2023-34 UEFA Women’s Nations League, which Spain won.

Carolina Marín (Huelva, 1993), considered one of the best women's badminton players in history, is an Olympic champion and three-time world badminton champion. A tremendously precocious athlete, at the age of 16 she was the first Spaniard in this sport to win a medal, taking silver at the European Junior Championship and becoming European U17 champion. From then on, her career has been marked by success. In 2014 she won her first world title (the third European to do so) and her first European championship. In 2015 she retained the title and in 2016 she became the first non-Asian women's badminton player to be proclaimed Olympic champion. In addition to the aforementioned Olympic gold, Marín has seven European championships, a European Games title and three gold medals and a silver medal at world championships to her name. 

Bruna Kajiya (São Paulo, 1987) is a professional and passionate kitesurfer, four times world champion, in 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2023, and runner-up on six occasions. The first woman in history to achieve the 315 backside manoeuvre, Kajiya has established herself as one of the best competitors on the planet and a reference for girls around the world in the fight for equality in the sport. 

Paula Badosa (New York, 1997) is a Spanish tennis player who reached the No. 2 WTA ranking in April 2022. The young player won the Indian Wells tournament as the main achievement in her senior career, as well as winning the Roland Garros tournament as a junior. In Grand Slams, she reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros in 2021, as well as reaching the last 16 on four occasions (Roland Garros 2020, Australian Open 2022, Wimbledon 2021 and 2022). At the Olympic Games, she reached the quarter-finals in Tokyo, having to retire during the match due to heat stroke.

Gisela Pulido (Barcelona, 1994) is one of the leading figures in international kitesurfing. She won her first world championship at the age of 10 and has since continued to amass titles, becoming a 10-time freestyle world champion before she had even turned 30. Building on these achievements, she has embraced a new challenge by competing in Formula Kite, a discipline that is now part of the Olympic Games. After finishing sixth at the 2023 European Championship, Pulido secured a place at her first Olympic Games at Paris 2024, and was ranked 12th in the qualifications until a lack of wind saw the rest of the event cancelled.

Meirelle Leite (Pernambuco, 2002) is a young Brazilian long-distance runner and two-time gold medallist at the South American U23 3000m Steeplechase Championships. A native of the Xukuru indigenous reserve, where she did not have access to the resources for professional training, Leite has managed to raise her training to a professional level on her own merits and is getting closer and closer to realising her dream of becoming the first indigenous Brazilian athlete to represent her country at the Olympic Games.