The Olympic medallist and World Champion is the trainer of the women’s Sail Team BCN, which will be competing in the first edition of the women’s America's Cup.
Mònica Azón has won two World Championships and and one European Championship in the Yngling category, and has competed in two Olympic Games. Now she faces the challenge of training the Sail Team BCN in the Puig Women’s America’s Cup, the first women’s competition to be held as part of this event in its 173-year history.
“It’s hard to believe that it’s taken so long or that nobody thought of holding a women’s competition in an event with so much history”, she affirms.
Azón regrets the fact that women’s participation in the event has taken some time, which is why she is pleased that competitions such as the America’s Cup offer girls the chance of professional career beyond children’s sailing.
Azón urges organisations to offer professional openings for sportspeople, and to break down the stigmas that surround sailing as an elitist sport for the few, inviting people to approach sailing clubs. “The thing that draws you to sailing is that there are no two days the same”.