Full name: Astrid Fina Paredes
Birthdate: October 16, 1983
Origin: Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain)
Height: 1.70 m
Profession: Paralympic athlete | Adapted snowboard | Snowboard-cross
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“My life before the accident was a routine life, I went from home to work and from work to the gym. “I am now on the National Snowboard Team.”
In the life of Barcelona native Astrid Fina, there will always be a before and after May 10, 2009. That day, after enjoying a football match with her friends, while she was stopped on her motorbike at a traffic light, a car accelerated and destroyed her right foot. Given her young age, the doctors decided to try to save her foot. Astrid, who until then worked as a shop assistant in a jewellery store, had to fight for two years to try to save her foot, and thirteen operations later she decided that the best thing to do was to amputate it.
One day in 2012, a friend invited her to try snowboarding in Baqueira, as she had only skied with her school friends until then. She liked it so much that she tried out for the national team, being the only girl. In less than two years, Astrid was already competing in her first Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014, where she was the sixth snowboard crosser.
Later, after several years of training, Astrid won a bronze medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Paralympic Games in the cross-country event (SB-LL2 class). Just one year later, she won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Adaptive Snowboard Championships.
“My life is happier now, the board allows me to fly, it gives me more freedom”
Beyond her sporting success, the Barcelona native knows that she is the mirror in which many people, many young people, with disabilities look at themselves. Director Marc Galver is also bringing the story of the snowboarder and rider to the big screen with the film “Astrid”, which tells the story of one of the best Spanish Paralympic athletes, which has already been premiered at the Milan Sports Film Festival.
