GONZALEZ Marina

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	44	12

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Reading, keeping pets. (marinagonzalezlara.com, 04 Sep 2019)

Athlete, Student

Catalan, Spanish

Salt Gimnastic Club [Girona, ESP]

Lucia Guisado [national], ESP

She has competed in the Catalan regional taekwondo championships in Spain. (marinagonzalezlara.com, 04 Sep 2019)

2019 for Spain, World Cup in Szombathely, Hungary (fosbury.cat, 13 Jan 2020, 22 Feb 2020)

In June 2018 she suffered an injury to her elbow before she was due to compete at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain. The injury required surgery and she was out for nearly 10 months. (marinagonzalezlara.com, 02 Jun 2018; sport.es, 09 Sep 2019; fosbury.cat, 22 Feb 2020)

2019 (fosbury.cat, 13 Jan 2020, 22 Feb 2020)

She began the sport at age eight at Club Gimnastic Mataro in Spain. (marinagonzalezlara.com, 04 Sep 2019)

She was initially involved in swimming, taekwondo and athletics, but was inspired to take up gymnastics after watching the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. "It was love at first sight once I saw it on TV." She later met Spanish gymnasts Gervasio Deferr and Saul Cofino, who suggested she join a club. (marinagonzalezlara.com, 04 Sep 2019; fosbury.cat, 22 Feb 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sport.es, 09 Sep 2019)

She trains up to seven hours a day at the High Performance Centre [CAR] in Madrid, Spain. (fosbury.cat, 22 Feb 2020; Twitter profile, 08 May 2020)

Armenian artistic gymnast Houry Gebeshian, Dutch artistic gymnast Sanne Wevers, Swiss artistic gymnast Giulia Steingruber. (marinagonzalezlara.com, 04 Sep 2019)

"Each person is as small as the fear they feel, and as great as the enemy they choose. The challenge is to overcome them and create my own story." (Twitter profile, 09 Sep 2019)

In 2019 she was named Female Athlete of the Year by Spanish sports magazine Fosbury. (fosbury.cat, 13 Jan 2020)

In 2019 she received an acknowledgement from the municipality of Malgrat de Mar, Spain, in recognition of her performances that year. (ajmalgrat.cat, 18 Oct 2019)