Mònica Dòria Vilarrubla (born 4 December 1999) is an Andorran slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2014.[2] Mònica was the flagbearer for Andorra at the 2020 Summer Olympics and at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[3][4] At the 2020 Olympics, the finished 16th in the K1 event and 11th in the C1 event after being eliminated in the semifinals of both.[5][6]
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| Birth name | Mònica Dòria Vilarrubla | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Andorran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 December 1999[1] La Seu d'Urgell, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Andorra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | C1, K1, Kayak cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editDòria Vilarrubla won a bronze medal in Kayak cross at the 2022 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg.
She won a gold medal in the C1 event at the 2017 Junior European Championships in Hohenlimburg, Germany. She earned her best senior world championship results of 8th and 30th (C1 and K1, respectively), at the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell.[1] These results secured her a quota place for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she represented Andorra in the C1 and K1 events. This was only the second time Andorra has been represented in canoe slalom at the Olympic Games, after Montserrat García Riberaygua competed in the K1 event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[7]
Results
editWorld Cup individual podiums
edit| Season | Date | Venue | Position | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 23 June 2019 | Bratislava | 2nd | C1 |
| 2022 | 3 September 2022 | La Seu d'Urgell | 3rd | K1 |
| 2023 | 4 June 2023 | Augsburg | 3rd | Kayak cross |
| 10 June 2023 | Prague | 2nd | C1 | |
| 2024 | 1 June 2024 | Augsburg | 3rd | C1 |
Complete World Cup results
edit| Year | Class | WC1 | WC2 | WC3 | WC4 | WC5 | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | C1 | Lee Valley  |
Tacen  |
Prague  |
La Seu  18 |
Augsburg  |
9 | 40th |
| K1 | 42 | 2 | 77th | |||||
| 2015 | C1 | Prague |
Kraków  |
Liptovský Mikuláš  |
La Seu 18 |
Pau  21 |
11 | 32nd |
| K1 | 37 | 42 | 4 | 86th | ||||
| 2016 | C1 | Ivrea  |
La Seu 17 |
Pau 14 |
Prague 37 |
Tacen 8 |
96 | 12th |
| K1 | 39 | 40 | 37 | 38 | 8 | 58th | ||
| 2017 | C1 | Prague |
Augsburg 31 |
Markkleeberg |
Ivrea 28 |
La Seu 30 |
21 | 46th |
| K1 | 52 | 32 | 45 | 6 | 61st | |||
| 2018 | C1 | Liptovský Mikuláš |
Kraków |
Augsburg |
Tacen |
La Seu 9 |
72 | 25th |
| K1 | 30 | 10 | 55th | |||||
| 2019 | C1 | Lee Valley 29 |
Bratislava 2 |
Tacen |
Markkleeberg 21 |
Prague |
84 | 26th |
| K1 | 33 | 23 | 20 | 44 | 38th | |||
| 2020 | C1 | Tacen |
Pau 15 |
N/A[a] | ||||
| K1 | 19 | |||||||
| 2021 | C1 | Prague 24 |
Markkleeberg 30 |
La Seu 5 |
Pau 27 |
88 | 20th | |
| K1 | 20 | 37 | 14 | 10 | 122 | 16th | ||
Notes
a No overall rankings were determined by the ICF, with only two races possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
edit- ^ a b "Canoeing - Monica Doria Vilarrubla". TheSports.org. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ "Monica DORIA VILARRUBLA (AND)". CanoeSlalom.net. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ "La palista Mònica Dòria será la abanderada de Andorra en Tokio 2021" [Canoeist Mònica Dòria will be Andorra's flag bearer in Tokyo 2020]. Europa Press. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ Escola, Marco (23 July 2024). "Doria i Carabaña ja es preparen per a la cerimònia inaugural dels Jocs Olímpics de París" [Doria and Carabaña are already preparing for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris]. www.altaveu.com (in Catalan). Altaveu. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ "Results (Tokyo K1)" (PDF). Olympics (in Japanese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Results (Tokyo C1)" (PDF). Olympics (in Japanese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "MONTSERRAT GARCIA RIBERAYGUA". Olympic.org. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ "Monica DORIA VILARRUBLA (AND)". ICF - Planet Canoe. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
External links
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