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She got the honourable diploma in 1989 (‘Gala del Deporte Lucense’) and the diploma to the best disabled sportswoman. She carried the Olympic Torch Barcelona ’92 and was elected in the Fifth Spanish Championship to give a silver plaque to the Infanta Cristina, who had been invited to inaugurate the championship in 1994. She was awarded several distinctions and got many trophies such as the trophy to the best sportswoman in the interautonommous championships (1995), trophy and diploma to the best disabled sportswoman in Ourense (1992 and 1996), trophies for her success in the Paralympic Games in Atlanta 1996 (she was awarded these trophies by the County Council of Ourense, the City Council of Lugo and the ‘Secretaría Xeral para el Deporte’ of the Xunta de Galicia, trophy of the City Council of Culleredo (A Coruña) and ONCE Foundation for her participation at the Paralympic Games of Atlanta 1996 and 1997, ‘first player’ trophy for the best sports career (1998), plaque of the City Council of Lugo for her success in the Boccia World Championship (1998), Olimpia Prize within the National Prizes (1997) to the Spanish Boccia Selection, awarded by the ‘Consejo Superior de Deportes’ and ‘Entre Mulleres’ Prize, awarded by the City Council of Lugo (2004). The ‘Consejo Superior de Deportes’ nominated her as ‘high-level sportswoman’ in 1996 and she was elected ‘Milagrosista del Año’ in 2002. Besides, she was invited by ASPNAIS to accompany the ‘Special Olympics’ torch carrier, invited by the Andalusian Olympics Foundation to take part in the First International Conference on Adapted Sport owing to the European Year of the Disabled (2003) and invited by ‘Diario de Pontevedra’, the Association of Olympic Sportspeople and the County Council of Pontevedra to the inauguration of the third edition of Expodeporte 2003. In March 2004, she carried the torch in the March against Drugs in Lugo.