Claudia Colom Martín (born 26 September 1998) is a retired Spanish artistic gymnast. She is the 2016 Spanish all-around champion, and she competed at the
2014
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,
2015
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, and
2017 World Championships.
Career
Junior
Colom competed at the
2012 Junior European Championships, and the Spanish team finished eleventh in the qualification round. She then competed at the
2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival
The 2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held in Utrecht, Netherlands, between 14 and 19 July 2013.
Sports
There were contested nine sports:
Venues
Schedule
The competition schedule for the 2017 European Youth Olympic Summer F ...
with
Natalia Ros and
Laura Gamell, and they finished tenth as a team. At the 2013 Elite Gym Massilia, she finished fifteenth in the all-around with a total score of 50.500.
Senior
Colom made her senior international debut at the
2014 WOGA Classic, and she tied with
Lia Top for ninth place in the all-around. She had the second-highest score on the floor exercise- 12.950. She then competed at the
2014 European Championships with
Roxana Popa
Roxana Daniela Popa Nedelcu (born June 2, 1997 in Constanța) is a Romanian-born Spanish artistic gymnast who has represented Spain in all her international competitions. Popa first came into contact with gymnastics in her native Romania, where t ...
,
Cintia Rodríguez,
Ana Pérez, and Laura Gamell, and they finished sixth in the team final. At the
2014 World Championships, Colom and the Spanish team finished fifteenth in
the qualification round.
At the
2015 Anadia World Cup, Colom finished seventh on the uneven bars and the balance beam. She was selected to represent
Spain at the 2015 European Games
Spain competed at the 2015 European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015.
Medalists
Archery
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Badminton
;Men
;Women
Basketball
Spain has qualified both of the teams based on the performance at the ...
alongside
Ainhoa Carmona and Ana Pérez, and they finished twelfth in
the team competition. She then competed at the
2015 World Championships alongside
Nora Fernández
Nora Fernández Iniesta (born 19 October 1999) is a retired Spanish artistic gymnast. She was a member of the Spanish team that won the bronze medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, and she competed at the 2015 and 2017 World Championships.
Ca ...
, Ana Pérez, Roxana Popa, Natalia Ros, and
Maria Paula Vargas
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* Mary, mother of Jesus
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, and they finished seventeenth in
the qualification round.
Colom competed at the
2016 Olympic Test Event
The 2016 Olympic Gymnastics Test Event, known officially as Aquece Rio 2016, served as the final qualifier to the gymnastics events at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Concerns and criticisms
During the test event the FIG (I ...
and placed twenty-eighth in the all-around with a total score of 53.732. Spain had to choose between Colom and Ana Pérez for their one Olympic spot, and ultimately, Pérez was chosen for the Olympic Games. She competed at the
2016 European Championships, and the Spanish team finished tenth. She then won the all-around gold medal at the 2016 Spanish Championships.
Colom finished second in the all-around at the 2017 Spanish Championships behind Ana Pérez. She then finished seventh on the uneven bars at the
2017 Szombathely World Cup. At the
2017 World Championships, she only competed on the uneven bars, but she did not qualify for the event final.
Colom retired in 2021 due to injuries, and she began coaching.
References
External links
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1998 births
Living people
Spanish female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
European Games competitors for Spain
Sportspeople from Palma de Mallorca
21st-century Spanish sportswomen