Begoña Curero Sastre

Begoña Curero Sastre (born 1990) is a visually impaired Spanish swimmer from Catalonia. After failing to qualify for the 2008 Summer Paralympics, she qualified for and competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Personal Curero was born in 1990 when she was 16 years old and later joined Club Handisport de Oviedo. She has been affiliated with the High Performance Center in San Cugat Valles. She tried but failed to qualify for the 2008 Summer Paralympics in swimming. At the 2009 World Short Course Swimming Championships in Brazil, she won a bronze medal. In Berlin, she medaled at the 2011 IDM German Open, winning a gold in the 100 meter breaststroke with a time of 1:25.35. In one edition of the event, she was one of twelve visually impaired Spanish swimmers competing at the event. In 2011, she had 9 total training sessions, with training occurring six of the seven days of the week. In May 2012, she trained in Palma de Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. In June 2012, she participated in the Castilla and León Adapted Swimming Open, which served as a Paralympic qualifying event. While she set a Spanish record in one event, she did not manage to set a Paralympic qualifying time in it. From the Catalan region of Spain, she was a recipient of a 2012 Plan ADO scholarship. She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics She was one of twelve vision impaired Spanish swimmers competing at the Games. Prior to heading to London, she participated in a national vision impaired swim team training camp at the High Performance Centre of Sant Cugat from 6 to 23 August. Daily at the camp, there were two in water training sessions and one out of water training session.

In December 2013, the Spanish national adaptive swimming championships were held in Spain. Curero finished second in the S12 100 meter freestyle race.