Xavier Porras
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| Full name | Javier Porras Santana | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||||
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August 22, 1981 Olot, Girona |
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| Website | www.xaviporras.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Spain
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| Sport | Track and field (T11) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | triple jump, long jump, 4x100 m relay | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | FC Barcelona | ||||||||||||||||||
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{2 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze}
{1 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze}
Xavi Porras (Olot, Girona, Spain, August 22, 1981) is a Spanish paralympic sprinter and jumper who belongs to F.C. Barcelona and competes in the T11 / B1 category for blind athletes or athletes with a very reduced vision.
Since he debuted with 18 years in the European of Lisbon, Xavi has always remained among the world elite, has participated in three Paralympic Games (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 -bronze in triple jump- and London 2012), seven World Athletics Championships (2 gold, 3 silver y 3 bronze) and seven European (2 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze). He is also the indoor world record holder of the triple jump with a record of 12,77 m. In the triple jump he has achieved his greatest success where he won two gold medals at The World Championships (13,02 m in Holland in 2006 and 12,77 m - world record indoors- in Sweden 2006); a bronze medal in the Paralympics (12,71 m in Beijing 2008) and a gold medal in the European Greece 2009 (12,76 m). Xavi won the title of champion of Spain in the long jump with a mark of 5,82 m, while still preparing with his guide Enric Martin, the World Championships Doha 2015 and the Paralympic Games of Rio 2016, his two next challenges. Xavi Porras receives Bronze Medal of Merit Sports in 2016. The Sports Council (CSD) has granted admission athlete Xavi Porras in the Royal Order of Sports Merit "considering the merits and circumstances" in the category bronze medal. This is the highest accolade the sport in Spain. In 2016, he has been proclaimed European champion in long jump with a mark of 6.14 meters in the Italian city of Grosseto.
Xavi Porras is a part of the most prestigious platform for an athlete, crowdfunding, 'Patrocínalos', of the Marca Sport Newspaper
Xavi Porras spent his childhood between football, biking and skateboarding. From an early age he was fascinated with physical exertion in general and but football in particular. Thanks to the football club in his neighborhood (Club de Futbol Sant Roc) had his first experience with competition. His vision problems started when he was very young, with one and a half year he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative congenital disease.
When he was fourteen he joined ONCE and moved to the Center for Educational Resources Joan Amades in Barcelona, where in athletics he discovered extra motivation to live with his blindness, besides combining sport with his studies of Administrative Management.
In 2005, he signed for the athletics section of FC Barcelona with his partner Rosalía Lázaro being the first blind athletes in the history of the Catalan club. Xavi is also part of the ADOP plan, managed by the Spanish Paralympic Committee, being considered athlete ARC (High Performance Catalan) by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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