Personal information | |
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Full name | Joan Munar Martínez |
Nationality | Spanish |
Born | (1996-02-01) 1 February 1996 (age 28) Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain |
Sport | |
Country | Spain |
Sport | Track and field (T12) |
Medal record |
Joan Munar Martínez (born 1 February 1996 in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands) is a Paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category T12 track and field events.[1] He has a vision impairment.[2]
Munar was born on 1 February 1996 in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. He has a vision impairment.[2] He lived in the Baleric Islands.[3]
Munar is a Paralympic T12 track and field athlete.[2] He does not race with a sighted guide.[4][5]
Munar has won the Mallorca Athletics Region Championship.[6] In 2011, he won the Spanish national championship.[6] He competed at the 2012 IPC European Athletics Championships and earned two golds in the 100 meter and 200 meter events.[2][3][7] One of his golds came in the 200 meters.[8] He competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, England where he finished 12th in the 100 meters and had a DNF in the 4 X 100 meter race.[2][3] The 100 meters was his first race of the Games.[9] He ran in the semi-finals with his guide in the 4 × 100 meter race on the seventh day of the Games.[10][11][12] He was one of twenty-four members of the Spanish athletics team. Competing at the Games as a 16-year-old, he was the youngest member of the athletics team.[13] In May 2013, he competed in the Spanish national championships, where he earned a gold medal in the 200 meters and a silver in the 100 meters.[14] In July 2013, he participated in the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships.[15]