Alexis Rosa, considered the best Soriano judoka of all time due to his outstanding record of achievements, has returned to his own strength after overcoming a serious injury and last weekend in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria he won a silver medal in the Championship of Spain within the category of less than 81 kilograms. Rosa achieved her eighth medal in a National and left behind long months in which she has been recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament. His work has been rewarded for rub shoulders again with the elite of Spanish judo.
Alexis Rosa, who competed defending the interests of the Federation of Galiciaarrived at the Las Palmas National with the aim of feeling like a judoka again “after eight months in which I couldn’t even put on the kimono.” In the first of his fights he defeated a Basque representative, later he got rid of a Catalan judoka and the third he eliminated was a Valencian. He was in the final where the man from Extremadura was waiting for him Iñaki Baztanwho ultimately was going to win the gold medal. “In the final I didn’t do well at all. Are you satisfied with the medal? I think I could have gotten gold“commented a demanding Alexis Rosa.
Demand but also excitement to be on a podium again after the ordeal that he has had to go through with injuries. Alexis tells what the last few years have been like in which “I have been burdened by two operations“And the litany for the man from Soriano began with a meniscus operation and retention of the anterior cruciate ligament from which he recovered one hundred percent. When it seemed that everything had been overcome in a training session in 2022, just a few days away from the Spanish Championship, Rosa suffered the blow of breaking her anterior cruciate ligament. Injury considered very serious and a break that led him to forget about the 2023 National. Work and a lot of sacrifice to finish 2024 with a silver lining that makes him turn the page on the injuries and focus on the future with optimism.
Alexis Rosa on the podium with the best in his category.
On the horizon is participating next year in a European Openwhich is a kind of pre-European and in which he will soon put all five senses. The continental event is his great challenge because at the national level it can be said that he has achieved everything with no less than five medals in the senior category and another three in minor categories.
Alexis resides in Madrid, where he works as a Physical Education teacher at an institute. Belongs to the club Quino Dojo from the Madrid town of Brunete and as coaches he continues to have the Soriana Sandra Garcia Lazaroas well as the Madrid Joaquin Ruiz.
Rosa celebrates nothing less than her eighth medal in a Spanish championship.
With regards to your brilliant achievementsthe achievements of the Soriano leave no one indifferent. His relationship with medals began in 2012 when he won silver in the cadet category. Medal that was repeated the following year. As a junior, another silver in 2016 before moving to the senior category. In his first year with the absolutes in 2017 he won another silver and In 2018 I savored what it was like to win gold. Another silver in 2020, a bronze in 2022 and last Saturday a new metal in the form of silver in the Canary archipelago.
