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| Full name | Marta Arce Payno | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 July 1977 Valladolid, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Spain | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marta Arce Payno (born 27 July 1977) [1] [2] is a B3 classified Spanish judo competitor who has represented Spain at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Paralympics where she has won a pair of silver medals and a bronze medal.
Arce was born in Valladolid with a form of albinism that led to progressive loss of vision to the point where she lost all her sight. [3] She speaks four languages, Spanish, English, Italian and Japanese. [3] She is a mother, giving birth in 2009. [3] Her day job is being a physical therapist working for the Autonomous University of Madrid. [3] In November 2013, she participated in a program run by the Programa ADOP Empleo to train Paralympic athletes in developing business communication and entrepreneurship skills. [4]
Arce is a B3 classified judo competitor. [5] She started participating in judo after moving to Madrid to attend university. Her entrance to the sport was through her brother who was active in it at that time. [3] From that point on, she did almost daily training in the sport. [3]
The first IPC European Judo Championships Arce competed in were the ones hosted in Città di Castello where she picked up a gold medal. [3] [6] She competed at the European Championships held in 1999 in Italy. [6] In 2001, she competed at a World Cup event in Rio de Janeiro. [6] Competing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal. [3] The 2004 Games were the first time women's judo appeared on the Paralympic programme. [6] At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, she repeated her performance and won another silver medal. [3] In October 2011, she competed in a regional Spanish national vision impaired judo event in Guadalajara. [7] She competed at the London hosted 2012 Summer Paralympics in judo, [3] [8] [9] where she won a bronze medal. [10] [11] [12] In her path to bronze, she competed against Swedish Nicolina Perheim and Cuban Dalidaivis Rodríguez Clark. [13] [14] Her bronze was the second bronze medal won by Spain in judo at the London Games, coming minutes after teammate Maria Monica Merenciano won bronze. [5] [6]
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