Jessica Vall

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Vall and the second or maternal family name is Montero.

Jessica Vall

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Personal information
Full name	Jessica Vall Montero
National team	Spain
Born	(1988-11-22) 22 November 1988 Barcelona, Spain
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Club Natació Sant Andreu
Coach	Jordi Jou
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Spain World Championships (LC) Bronze medal – third place 2015 Kazan 200 m breaststroke European Championships (LC) Silver medal – second place 2016 London 200 m breaststroke Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow 200 m breaststroke Bronze medal – third place 2014 Berlin 200 m breaststroke European Championships (SC) Gold medal – first place 2017 Copenhagen 200 m breaststroke Bronze medal – third place 2017 Copenhagen 100 m breaststroke Mediterranean Games Gold medal – first place 2013 Mersin 200 m breaststroke Gold medal – first place 2018 Tarragona 100 m breaststroke Gold medal – first place 2018 Tarragona 200 m breaststroke Silver medal – second place 2013 Mersin 100 m breaststroke Silver medal – second place 2013 Mersin 4 x 100 m medley Silver medal – second place 2018 Tarragona 4 x 100 m medley Bronze medal – third place 2018 Tarragona 50 m breaststroke

Jessica Vall Montero (born 22 November 1988) is a Spanish competitive swimmer and breaststroke specialist. She has a degree in Biomedicine from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has worked at Barcelona's Biomedical Research Center. She swims for Club Natació Sant Andreu, where she has trained for over five years with her coach Jordi Jou, ex-elite swimmer also for C.N. Sant Andreu. Besides elite training, she is also working towards her master's degree in Bioethics from the Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM).

Biography

Jessica Vall debuted internationally in the 2013 Mediterranean Games, where she swam the 200-meter breaststroke, 100-meter breaststroke, and 4 × 100 m medley relay. She won one gold and two silver medals.

She also took part in the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in the 50-meter and 200-meter breaststroke.

A year later, at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships, she won a bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke.

In the 2015 World Aquatics Championship in Kazan, Russia, Jessica took the bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke, setting a new Spanish record at 2:22:76. She tied for third with Danish swimmer Rikke Moller Pedersen and Chinese swimmer Shi Jinglin.

In 2016, at the Spanish Spring Open held in Sabadell from 19 to 22 March, Vall hit the Olympic minimum in the 100-meter breaststroke during her first swim, thus making her Spain's first member of the swim team going to the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also qualified for the 200-meter breaststroke later in that same meet. Her training partner at Club Natació Sant Andreu, teenage Africa Zamorano, was one of the surprises on the female Olympic squad, mainly made up of veterans: Mireia Belmonte, Melani Costa and Duane da Rocha.

Vall has been honored as Barcelona's "Female Athlete of the Year" by Barcelona's City Council in 2015.

International Swimming League

In 2019 Vall was member of the 2019 International Swimming League representing Team Iron.

External links

• Jessica Vall Montero at the International Swimming League
• Jessica Vall Montero at World Aquatics
• Jessica Vall Montero at Swimrankings.net
• Jessica Vall Montero at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
• Jéssica Vall Montero (and here) at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) (archived)
• Jessica Vall – COE – Paris 2024 (in Spanish)
• Jessica Vall at Olympedia
• Jessica Vall on Instagram
• Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN) (in Spanish)