Background
Morales was born 15 September 1994 and has an intellectual disability.
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Michelle Morales
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In October 2013, she was awarded the gold Real Orden al Mérito Deportivo at a ceremony at the Teatro de Madrid Cofidis, and attended by Princess Elena, Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, José Ignacio Wert, the president of the Higher Sports Council (Circuit Switched Data ), Miguel Cardinal, and the Director General of Sports of Circuit Switched Data , Ana Muñoz.
Career
She is from the Canary Islands. As of 2012, she lived in Tenerife. Morales is an S14 classified swimmer.
She is affiliated with the Spanish Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (FEddi).
In 2010, Morales competed at the Tenerife International Open. In 2012 Morales competed at the Paralympic Championship of Spain by Autonomous Communities.
Morales raced at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, England where she earned a gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke setting a new world record of 1:16.85. The next year she again represented Spain, this time in the 2014 IPC European Championships.
She entered four events, winning gold in the 100m breaststroke S14 breaking her own world record, set at the Paralympics, by over a second.
