Teresa Silva
Teresa Silva is a Spanish elite sportswoman with disabilities, founder and president of Fundación También. She has also made a name for herself in disciplines such as skiing and adapted sailing, in which she has been Champion of Spain and Regional Champion, respectively. Creator of the first female adapted alpine sit skiing competition team in Spain in 2007. President of the Spanish 2.4 mR Sailing Association. She is also a recognised speaker in the world of disability and adapted sports. Skiing&Sailing A great fan of sports in general and airborne sports in particular, Teresa's life took a turn when in 1989 she had a paragliding accident during training for the Austrian World Championship, causing paraplegia that binds her forever to a wheelchair. After nine months of rehabilitation at the National Hospital of Paraplegics in Toledo, she began to face all the difficulties that people with disabilities encounter in their day-to-day lives. These were difficult times, but she did not give up her efforts to return to her life as a journalist and innovative businesswoman in air sports. In April 1998, Teresa was able to start adapted alpine skiing and in January 2000 she created the Santiveri Adaptive Ski Exhibition and