GARRIDO BRUN Jacobo

Classification
S9, SB8, SM9 (IPC, 27 May 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (laopinioncoruna.es, 11 Dec 2015)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (Athlete, 15 Aug 2018)

Impairment Details
He was born with fibula agenesis, resulting in his right leg being shorter than the left. At age five he underwent surgery to remove his fibula, and at age seven he had his hip reconstructed. At age eight he underwent surgery again to correct a problem where his hip kept dislocating. (laopinioncoruna.es, 11 Dec 2015)

General
TRAINING BASE
In September 2020 he left his hometown of A Coruna, Spain, to train at the High Performance Centre [CAR] in Sant Cugat, near Barcelona. He says he was able to adapt quickly following the move. "I had already been training at my swimming club, Liceo, for 11 years with Jesus de la Fuente, my former coach, and I saw the need to make a change. I thought moving was going to hit me a little more, especially the change from being with my family every day to not seeing them for three months. I lowered the training load a lot with respect to what I had been doing at Liceo, but now I pay more attention to power and speed, which was what I needed to improve." (paralimpicos.es, 26 Feb 2021)

STUDIES
He decided to combine his studies and training ahead of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. "I know that due to my training I will miss a lot of lessons and that means having to study even more, but even though this year [2020] I will focus a little more on swimming than on studying, I will still try to do both things. I am lucky enough that the teachers in my school, where I have been for the last 15 years, understand my situation and help me a lot with the schedule. Since I was little they taught me that I could not focus only on swimming, but that I also had to be studying something." (laopinioncoruna.es, 24 Jan 2020; liceolapaz.com, 27 Aug 2020; paralimpicos.es, 26 Feb 2021)