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| Jessica
VALL |
| Sport |
Swimming |
| NOC |
Spain
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| Gender | Women |
| Born | 22 Nov 1988
in Barcelona, ESP |
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Further Personal Information |
Family |
Husband Alberto |
Residence |
Barcelona, ESP |
Occupation |
Athlete, Science Professional |
Languages |
Catalan, Spanish |
Higher education |
Biomedical Science - Pompeu Fabra University: Barcelona, ESP |
Sport Specific Information |
When and where did you begin this sport? |
She began swimming at age three. At age six she enrolled in a swimming club in Barcelona, Spain. |
Why this sport? |
She and her parents were advised by a coach to do a trial at a swimming club. "I was so nervous. I was told to swim the four strokes but I didn't even know that butterfly stroke actually existed. Once the test was over, my soon to be coach, Pilar Plaja, told us I had received a grant to be a member of the Club de Natacio Catalunya team." |
Club / Team |
CN Sant Andreu: Barcelona, ESP |
Name of coach |
Jordi Jou [club], ESP |
General Interest |
Nicknames |
Jessi, Xess, Ranita [Little frog]. (sport.es, 15 Jan 2019; mundodeportivo.com, 07 Aug 2015) |
Hobbies |
Supporting Spanish football club Barcelona. (mundodeportivo.com, 24 Nov 2018) |
Memorable sporting achievement |
Qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games. (Instagram profile, 19 May 2021) |
Hero / Idol |
Danish swimmer Rikke Moller Pedersen. (elperiodico.com, 11 Aug 2015) |
Injuries |
She sustained a foot injury in 2019. (rtve.es, 10 Jul 2019) |
Awards and honours |
She received the 2018 Female Spanish Swimmer of the Year award from the website SwimSwam in its Swammy Awards. (swimswam.com, 02 Jan 2019)
She was named the 2018 Female Athlete of the Year in Catalonia by the Sports Federations Union of Catalonia and the Barcelona-based 'Sport' newspaper in Spain. (jessicavall.com, 17 Jan 2019; sport.es, 15 Jan 2019)
In 2018 she received the Extraordinary Champions award from the Spanish sports newspaper Mundo Deportivo. (mundodeportivo.com, 27 Oct 2018) |
Other information |
FAMILY PLANS
After the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she revealed that she hopes to start a family before returning to compete in the sport at international level again. "I want to come back after becoming a mother. I know that maybe I won't have the performance to go to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, but I would like to return to the national team, and compete at a European championships and the national championships. [I want female] swimmers to have a model of someone who decided to become a mother and returned to high performance sport." (as.com, 02 Nov 2021)
FURTHER EDUCATION
She took a break from her swimming career for five years to focus on her biology studies at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. She has since studied for a master's degree in bioethics at the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia [UCAM] in Spain. (sport.es, 15 Jan 2019; Twitter profile, 02 Jun 2016; cope.es, 07 Aug 2015; elmundo.es, 07 Aug 2015) |
Olympic Games |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| 18 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.07 |
| 13 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:24.87 |
| 16 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
4:04.14 |
| Semifinal |
2016 |
Rio de Janeiro, BRA |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.55 |
| Semifinal |
2016 |
Rio de Janeiro, BRA |
200m Breaststroke |
2:24.22 |
World Championships |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| 17 |
2022 |
Budapest, HUN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:28.08 |
| Heats |
2022 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:08.38 |
| Heats |
2022 |
Budapest, HUN |
50m Breaststroke |
31.92 |
| Semifinal |
2019 |
Gwangju, KOR |
200m Breaststroke |
2:28.11 |
| Heats |
2019 |
Gwangju, KOR |
50m Breaststroke |
31.58 |
| Semifinal |
2019 |
Gwangju, KOR |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.46 |
| 8 |
2017 |
Budapest, HUN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:23.29 |
| 7 |
2017 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:06.95 |
| Semifinal |
2015 |
Kazan, RUS |
100m Breaststroke |
1:08.02 |
| 3 |
2015 |
Kazan, RUS |
200m Breaststroke |
2:22.76 |
| Heats |
2015 |
Kazan, RUS |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
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| Semifinal |
2013 |
Barcelona, ESP |
200m Breaststroke |
2:27.00 |
| Heats |
2013 |
Barcelona, ESP |
50m Breaststroke |
31.77 |
World Championships Short Course |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| Heats |
2021 |
Abu Dhabi, UAE |
100m Individual Medley |
1:02.04 |
| Heats |
2021 |
Abu Dhabi, UAE |
200m Breaststroke |
DNS |
| Heats |
2021 |
Abu Dhabi, UAE |
50m Breaststroke |
30.56 |
| Semifinal |
2021 |
Abu Dhabi, UAE |
100m Breaststroke |
1:05.80 |
| 5 |
2018 |
Hangzhou, CHN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:19.37 |
| Semifinal |
2018 |
Hangzhou, CHN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:05.27 |
| Heats |
2018 |
Hangzhou, CHN |
50m Breaststroke |
30.88 |
| Heats |
2018 |
Hangzhou, CHN |
100m Individual Medley |
1:01.79 |
| 13 |
2016 |
Windsor, ON, CAN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:23.34 |
| 19 |
2016 |
Windsor, ON, CAN |
100m Individual Medley |
1:01.73 |
| Heats |
2016 |
Windsor, ON, CAN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:06.63 |
| Heats |
2016 |
Windsor, ON, CAN |
50m Breaststroke |
31.17 |
| Heats |
2014 |
Doha, QAT |
100m Breaststroke |
1:06.22 |
| Heats |
2014 |
Doha, QAT |
50m Breaststroke |
31.28 |
| Heats |
2014 |
Doha, QAT |
200m Breaststroke |
2:21.66 |
European Championships |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
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2022 |
Rome, ITA |
200m Breaststroke |
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| 10 |
2022 |
Rome, ITA |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.86 |
| 8 |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:25.84 |
| Heats |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
50m Breaststroke |
32.05 |
| Semifinal |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:06.93 |
| 8 |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:49.90 |
| Heats |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
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| 4 |
2018 |
Glasgow, SCO |
100m Breaststroke |
1:06.98 |
| 2 |
2018 |
Glasgow, SCO |
200m Breaststroke |
2:23.02 |
| Heats |
2018 |
Glasgow, SCO |
50m Breaststroke |
31.86 |
| Heats |
2018 |
Glasgow, SCO |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
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| 2 |
2016 |
London, ENG |
200m Breaststroke |
2:22.56 |
| Heats |
2016 |
London, ENG |
50m Breaststroke |
32.14 |
| 3 |
2014 |
Berlin, GER |
200m Breaststroke |
2:24.08 |
| 4 |
2014 |
Berlin, GER |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.51 |
| Heats |
2014 |
Berlin, GER |
50m Breaststroke |
31.99 |
| 7 |
2014 |
Berlin, GER |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
4:02.84 |
European Championships Short Course |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| 6 |
2021 |
Kazan, RUS |
200m Breaststroke |
2:20.06 |
| Semifinal |
2021 |
Kazan, RUS |
50m Breaststroke |
30.56 |
| Semifinal |
2021 |
Kazan, RUS |
100m Breaststroke |
1:05.30 |
| Heats |
2021 |
Kazan, RUS |
4 x 50m Medley Relay |
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| 3 |
2017 |
Copenhagen, DEN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:04.80 |
| Semifinal |
2017 |
Copenhagen, DEN |
50m Breaststroke |
30.68 |
| 1 |
2017 |
Copenhagen, DEN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:18.41 |
| Semifinals |
2013 |
Herning, DEN |
50m Breaststroke |
31.35 |
| 6 |
2013 |
Herning, DEN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:23.21 |
| Semifinals |
2013 |
Herning, DEN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.07 |
World Cup |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| 1 |
2019 |
Berlin, GER |
200m Breaststroke |
2:27.14 |
| 1 |
2019 |
Berlin, GER |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.76 |
| 4 |
2019 |
Berlin, GER |
50m Breaststroke |
31.86 |
| 4 |
2019 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:08.66 |
| 5 |
2019 |
Budapest, HUN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:28.12 |
| 8 |
2019 |
Budapest, HUN |
200m Individual Medley |
2:20.68 |
| 5 |
2019 |
Budapest, HUN |
50m Breaststroke |
31.83 |
| 3 |
2019 |
Tokyo, JPN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:25.32 |
| 5 |
2019 |
Tokyo, JPN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:07.29 |
| 6 |
2019 |
Tokyo, JPN |
50m Breaststroke |
31.56 |
| 49 |
2018 |
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Overall Ranking |
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| 4 |
2018 |
Budapest, HUN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:20.81 |
| 6 |
2018 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:05.97 |
| 8 |
2018 |
Budapest, HUN |
50m Breaststroke |
30.75 |
| 6 |
2018 |
Budapest, HUN |
4 x 50m Medley Relay |
1:41.89 |
| 3 |
2018 |
Eindhoven, NED |
200m Breaststroke |
2:20.06 |
| 7 |
2018 |
Eindhoven, NED |
100m Breaststroke |
1:06.42 |
| 8 |
2018 |
Eindhoven, NED |
50m Breaststroke |
31.04 |
| 4 |
2017 |
Tokyo, JPN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:05.44 |
| 5 |
2017 |
Tokyo, JPN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:19.80 |
| 5 |
2014 |
Beijing, CHN |
100m Breaststroke |
1:06.71 |
| 5 |
2014 |
Beijing, CHN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:22.46 |
| 8 |
2014 |
Tokyo, JPN |
200m Breaststroke |
2:25.14 |
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