VALL MONTERO Jessica

Date of Birth: 22 Nov 1988

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Place of birth: BARCELONA

Birth Country:

Spain

Place of residence : BARCELONA

Residence Country:

Spain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Breaststroke
	Women's 200m Breaststroke
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay ESP Spain

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Breaststroke - Heat 5	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Breast	200Breast
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (1:07.55)	SF (2:24.22)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Medley W
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (31.58)	SF (1:07.46)	SF (2:28.11)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	7th (1:06.95)	8th (2:23.29)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	SF (1:08.02)	3rd (2:22.76)	H (4:03.91)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	H (31.77)	-	SF (2:27.00)	-

European Championships

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2020	Budapest, HUN	H (32.05)	SF (1:06.93)	8th (2:25.84)	H (4:02.38)	8th (3:49.90)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	H (31.86)	4th (1:06.98)	2nd (2:23.02)	H (4:04.79)	-

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	100IndMed
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (30.88)	SF (1:05.27)	5th (2:19.37)	H (1:01.79)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	H (31.17)	H (1:06.63)	H (2:23.34)	H (1:01.73)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Jessi, Xess, Ranita [Little frog]. (sport.es, 15 Jan 2019; mundodeportivo.com, 07 Aug 2015)

Supporting Spanish football club Barcelona. (mundodeportivo.com, 24 Nov 2018)

Occupation:

Biomedical Science - Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, ESP

Husband Alberto

Languages spoken:

Catalan, Spanish

CN Sant Andreu [Barcelona, ESP]

Jordi Jou [club], ESP; Fred Vergnoux [national], FRA

She sustained a foot injury in 2019. (rtve.es, 10 Jul 2019)

She began swimming at age three. At age six she enrolled in a swimming club in Barcelona, Spain. (jessicavall.com, 17 Jan 2019)

She and her parents were advised by a coach to do a trial at a swimming club. "I was so nervous. I was told to swim the four strokes but I didn't even know that butterfly stroke actually existed. Once the test was over, my soon to be coach, Pilar Plaja, told us I had received a grant to be a member of the Club de Natacio Catalunya team." (jessicavall.com, 17 Jan 2019)

Qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 19 May 2021)

Danish swimmer Rikke Moller Pedersen. (elperiodico.com, 11 Aug 2015)

She received the 2018 Female Spanish Swimmer of the Year award from the website SwimSwam in its Swammy Awards. (swimswam.com, 02 Jan 2019)

She was named 2018 Female Athlete of the Year in Catalonia by the Sports Federations Union of Catalonia and the Barcelona-based 'Sport' newspaper in Spain. (jessicavall.com, 17 Jan 2019; sport.es, 15 Jan 2019)

In 2018 she received the Extraordinary Champions award from the Spanish sports newspaper Mundo Deportivo. (mundodeportivo.com, 27 Oct 2018)

General Interest

General
MATERNITY PLANS ON HOLD
In 2020 she said that the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo had as big an impact on her personal life as on her professional one. "I wanted to become a mother and I put it off for a year. I do not want to retire, I want to return [to competition]." (as.com, 06 Nov 2020)

FURTHER EDUCATION
She took a break from her swimming career for five years to focus on her biology studies at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. She has since studied for a master's degree in bioethics at the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia [UCAM] in Spain. (cope.es, 07 Aug 2015; Twitter profile, 02 Jun 2016; elmundo.es, 07 Aug 2015; sport.es, 15 Jan 2019)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/jessica.vall
https://instagram.com/jessica_vall
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j%C3%A8ssica-vall-montero-33a85638
https://twitter.com/jessicavallmo
Athlete Website: http://jessicavall.com

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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