Marina Altur

Getting to know Marina Altur a little

Marina Altur Fernández (Algemesí, 01/09/2008) is a young athlete who already has a string of strong middle-distance performances behind her. She came to athletics at the age of 7 with CA Guadassuar, starting to compete in the U10 category, and later went on to wear the colours of CA Safor Teika. In 2026 she joined the Valencia Club Atletismo set-up. She says the result she is proudest of is the bronze medal won at the national short track championships over 800 m, in 2:12:54.

Sporting achievements…

In cross-country she has stood out in the major races on the Spanish calendar:

• Win in Venta de Baños.
• Second places in Amorebieta and Castellón.
• Strong performances in Lasarte, Itálica, Soria and Alcobendas.
• 5th, Spanish Club Championships held in Atapuerca (Burgos, 2025).
• Spanish team runner-up in Atapuerca (Burgos, 2025).

On the track she has taken a number of honours both indoors and outdoors:

• Notably the bronze medals over 600 m and 800 m at U16 and U18 respectively.
• Win at the Spanish Championships by Autonomous Communities over 600 m in 2022.

On the road she has a string of wins in city mile races and San Silvestre races, as well as in 5K and 8K events.

Her personal bests:

-400 m: 58″ (short track)

-800 m: 2:12:54 (short track)

-3,000 m: 9:43:09 (short track), 2nd-best Spanish U18 mark of the season

What you might not know about Marina…

Marina is in her final year of secondary school and combines her studies with high-performance sport. She plans to study Sports Science and later Physiotherapy. She says athletics and studying take up all her time, and the few free moments she has go on listening to music, watching series and reading. Before taking up athletics she played tennis, swam and did rhythmic gymnastics. “My father was an athlete for many years and he tried to stop me becoming one, because he did not want me to go through the difficulties he went through; athletics is very demanding and full of bittersweet moments, something I have already seen for myself. The truth is I always knew my sport had to be athletics, so there came a point when I told my parents that if they did not sign me up for athletics I did not want to do any other sport. And that is how the thing that has become my whole life began”, Marina explains.

She says that, like every athlete, she dreams of competing at an Olympic Games, “but being realistic, and after the complications of these last three years, I dream of the work flowing and of enjoying it, because I have learned that this is how the results we want come”.