Marisol Casado
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Marisol Casado BA, MBA |
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| Native name | María de la Soledad Casado Estupiñán |
| Born |
11 October 1956 Madrid, Spain |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Education | BA '79 Spanish Philology, Autonomous University of Madrid ----- MBA '91 Sports Administration and Management, Complutense University of Madrid |
| Occupation |
ITU President since 2008 IOC Member since 2010 |
| Organization | International Triathlon Union |
| Predecessor | Les McDonald |
| Board member of | The evaluation for the Games of XXXIII Olympiad in 2024 Commission ---- IOC Public Affairs and Social Development through Sport Commission |
| Awards | Royal Order of Sports Merit |
known as Marisol Casado (born 11 October 1956) is a triathlete and Spanish sports administrator. She has been President of the International Triathlon Union since 2008, and as of 2017 she is the only female Spanish member of the International Olympic Committee. Marisol is the only woman to preside over an International Summer Sport Federation and one of (only) two in the entire Olympic program, the other being Kate Caithness of curling.
In 2004, she co-founded and assumed the presidency until 2009 of the Commission for Sport and Women of the Spanish Olympic Committee (SOC). In 1984, she was the winner of the first organized triathlon in Spain.
She was previously the Vice-President of the Spanish Triathlon Federation.
In 1979, she graduated in Hispanic Philology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She worked as a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language from 1979 to 1989. In 1991, she obtained an MBA in Sports Administration and Management from the Complutense University of Madrid and the Spanish Olympic Committee .
He played grass-hockey in university and started middle-distance running (400 and 800 meters) as well. She participated in the 1978 Madrid Marathon. Of the 5,000 participants, she was one of only 6 women. In 1984, she raced in the first triathlon held in Spain, in Guadalajara, and won.
At the end of the eighties she was a member of the Spanish Triathlon Federation, where, from its inception - except for a brief absence between 1994 and 1997 - until 2008, she held the position of Secretary General.
From 2002 to 2008, she presided over the European Triathlon Union. In 2008, she was elected President of the International Triathlon Union, which was founded in Avignon, France in 1989. The Internation Triathlon Union was one of the first international sport federations that promoted equality between men and women, with the same prize money, distances, and media recognition for both sexes. Casado was re-elected in 2012 at the XXV Congress in Auckland (New Zealand), in which she defeated the South Korean Kyung-Sun Yu, by 82 votes to 33. In 2016 was re-elected for a third term. Upon assuming the presidency of the ITU, she became the second Spanish woman ever to preside over an International Federation of an Olympic sport. The first was Pilar de Borbón, of the International Equestrian Federation .
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