“I swim through my life”He was identified with Smile Miguel Angel Navaro next to the pool Madrid High Performance Center. There he is trained in the same group of Teresa Pearls after his pandemic. In fact, Water is part of his life since he was born 20 years ago. First rehabilitation and today on its upper topic.
Its disability is congenital and affects the muscles. During pregnancy, doctors said that it was a girl for their parents and that everything was going well, but during childbirth, reality was another. “They told us that he was young and came with problems. They put him in the ICU and they didn’t know whether he was going out. I don’t have strength or hey not sucked. This disease is not known, Nothing moved from the neck. They were not hard for him, ”his father Miguel Angel recalled, he inherited the name.
He was transferred Nino Jayes Hospital, where he was six months. He slept in a mattress that whistled if he stopped breathing. When they discharge him, doctors They recommend that small One Practice Sports, especially swimming, physically improve. He did not turn a year when his mother took the pool of San Sebastian de Los Reese for the first time to start rehabilitation. He was floating for a while, it was the only thing he had done. But his parents’ attempt and the will of Miguel AngelHis training partners are called migulone with love, Fruit with time. Over the years, he spent hours and hours in the water to improve his physical ability and his quality of life.
Miguel Angel has been posed for the brand in the Navaro Car de Madrid pool.
“Initially he rehabilitated the pool with monitors, especially leg and weapon exercises. Were also made on the beach in the summer. Ibamos in Tavers de La Waldigna (Valencia). It is continuous from 11:30 to 14:30 inside the sea. If the red flag or rain falls, it did not get out of the water”, Migulone recalled a smile.
Thanks to all the physical ability to sport today
“Those hours, in the pool and sea, have benefited me physically. When I was born my muscles could move my eyes. Thanks to all the physical ability to sport today, ”he admitted.
Freedom of water
Swimming is not the only sport he practiced in his childhood. Competed The bowl At the junior level in regional and national competitions, he played Wheelchair basketball With the Alcobendas Club and at the SociedPortiva School of the Real Madrid Foundation. Practical Hockey, adapted cycling and skiing. But swimming is not for the rest of the sports.
I feel free in the water, there are things I can do inside rather than inside
“Low in the water and I have a greater movement. There are things I can’t do outside and inside. The concept of freedom I think of the swim separation“, He explained.” 93% disability Recognized, but the water does not limit me, which allows me to express me simply, ”he said.
Miguel Omzel Navaro in the 50 -meter Back S1 final of Paris Games.
Jose Manual GomezMiguel Angel’s swimming monitor told him Dario CarerasA swimming technician of the Spanish Sports Federation for people with physical disabilities. “He said he was in his pool An unusual child who swims very well”, Recalled the races. The event organized by the Swimming Club in the Pozo to raise funds for oncology in Nino Jayes Hospital (Madrid). During this event 24 hours a day was always swimming in the pool. About 800 people, including Miguel Angel, have passed.
He thought he was swimming for 15-20 minutes. After the past, they asked him how he was and he wanted to continue. Twenty minutes later, the same. He spent three hours in water without swimming.
“Approximately 30 people swim in his street and he was always happy with the smile. In three hours probably there may be thousands of shocks and blows, but he had nothing. Every five minutes asked if someone needed anything and he always answered the same thing: ‘I am great, very thanks!”, Recalled the races.
Miguel Angel Newvaro with Mario Blazquez, his coach (left) and his father.
“They are a little ‘helmet’ with my resistance capacity Water should be too long in swimming, although not faster. Migulone adds, “For me, for me, when I am small, this event is like closing the circle.”
Rehabilitation to the competition
After that incident, swimming was just a form of rehabilitation and gained the competitive channel. Madrid climbed shortly after. At first the regional championships are competing, and then the national and it already has a certain competitive level, the chance in the Madrid car has arisen.
“Migulone stands for the desire to overcome all of it. Anything that you say or challenge him, always tries with all the desires, ”he adds to Mario Blazkvez, a part of his coach and career coaching staff.
Migulone stands for the desire to overcome all, above all
In 2023, he entered the World Series in Limoes (France). Although he had no results as he had been expected, he enjoyed the experience. He admitted that he could do nerves, but used to improve the following.
Migulone, in the car de Madrid.
Remember with laughter yet His mother shaved his legs in front of him but did not supply the desired effect. “She saw that she had benefited all the swimmers, because, due to friction with water, she removed them in seconds. He felt that he was happening to me like the rest, but instead of taking the water, my kicking slipped her. It would cost me so much and I had to do a lot to achieve the same result, ”he explained.
Historical partnership in Paris
Practically A year later I was involved in the Paris Paralympic Games Thanks to someone Wild card (Invitation). When he started training in the car, he stopped Chronon at 3:30 pm on the 50 -meter test and now he does at 1:50 pm.
It was in the city of Luz The first Spanish swimmer of S1 Class (serious disability) in participating in games. Everything was unique, leading to the Spanish trip to the French capital from the moment he went to the Iberia plane. The surcharge of that flight is his mother. It was a surprise.
Miguel Angel Navaro, in the defense sector in the 50 -meter Back S1 final.
“It has become an enormous illusion for me because I have an autonomy in the water, but always someone should be pending. My mother is in the pool or sea, if a wave is pulling me or there is a jellyfish there and I have to take out. He was with me in the water and outside for several hours and enthusiast me to come with me in a paralympic adventure”, Admitted.
In the pool of Defense Arena, before 40,000 people swims back to Miguel Angel 100 and 50 meters back1 It ranked sixth and seventh respectively. At that time, his family was in stands.
For two years we fed with his nose with his nose, the prognosis was blurred; That is why my son represented Spain in Paris 40,000 before praising him before praising him
“They told us that they couldn’t eat when they were born. In fact, we had feed him with an investigation in his nose until the age of two. I gave it back to everything. They are a group of conditions that obscure the prognosis. In Paris, find me there after seeing my son Spain … Everything has accumulated. I am very proud of. There are no words that reflect it. There are 40,000 people praising him“His father recalled emotional.
Paralympic swimmer Miguel Angel Navaro.
Be in reference to others
Migulone One of the great ovulation heard in that pool for his will. The same decibels were recorded when a swimmer or swimmer of the French team competed.
I hope to be an example and motivation for people with great disabilities
“I still remember the rich man. It is an honor to be the first Spanish person in the S1 with great physical difficulties competing in swimming in the Paralympic Games. Brand before future generations. I don’t have a Spanish reference in my class when I am small and it’s a plus. Having instructions can help and stimulate the day. I hope that example or inspiration for people with great disabilities, you can. The most important lesson I can transmit to big disabilities. When I swim, I represent all my country and my person, but I represent all of them, ”he said.
Miguel Angel Navaro in Definance Arena with his coach Mario Blazquez.
Train three hours of water in the water for five days a week and perform dry exercises at home to strengthen the legs in the afternoon. And all this, Every day it is combined with a double degree at CEU San Pablo University and journalism And participating in university discussions.
His next competition, from tomorrow, Barcelona’s World Series. For the first time, Spain maintains this kind of proof and, in it, Madrid seeks a minimum of the Singapore World Cup in October, for the first time this year. International evidence that will take place in the city It composes the main stars of the world scene, including the winners of the Paris 2024 games. They compete in the Barcelona Swimming Club Pool led Medal winners in games.
The whole, 220 swimmers from 38 countries And the competition is done under the ‘Multidiscity’ system, in which all swimmers compete together with their influence level and expire a person who reaches the world world.
