Preview and how to see Amalia Perez in search of her fifth gold medal

Amalia Perez: Overcoming the Road to Sports Legend

At birth, Amalia Perez was diagnosed with congenital arthropathy, a syndrome that affects one in every three thousand babies and causes contractures in the limbs. In his case, it affected his legs.

Perez began playing sports when he was six years old, when he switched to swimming as part of his rehabilitation. Then came Paralympic athletics, wheelchair basketball and Paralympic table tennis. However, her coaches saw her in another discipline.

“I started specializing in 1991, and I practiced other specializations as a hobby such as swimming, athletics, basketball and shooting, but the coaches saw my abilities as a weightlifter and in the National Wheelchair Games that were held previously every year. They told me to encourage myself to participate in weightlifting.” The Economist In 2023.

In 1998, at the age of 25, the Paralympic weightlifter won her first world championship title. She was in the women’s 52kg category at the 1998 Dubai World Cup and would be crowned world champion again in different categories at Busan 2006, Mexico City 2017 and Tbilisi 2021.

“We have to keep working. They consider me an icon of this discipline and of Paralympic sport, both nationally and internationally, and that is why I feel very proud and satisfied with what we are doing and I am grateful to God, to life, which has given me health, but above all, also by accompanying many people who have supported me and contributed with their enormous commitment and professionalism, such as my multidisciplinary team, with whom I feel more than grateful,” she said. Conady Ahead of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

The weightlifter suffered an injury to her right shoulder during 2023, which is why she had to work hard throughout last season to regain the rhythm and requirements of her category and thus be able to fight for the podium in Paris again.

“I feel very happy and satisfied knowing that I am part of the team that will go to Paris 2024 and since this is my seventh participation in the Paralympics, it is a source of pride for me today to continue being part of the ranks of Paralympic weightlifting,” he added. “We will have the opportunity to be among the top eight in the world and aim for a medal.”