Jaume Garcia i Alsina

Jaime Garcia Alsina (28 March 1874 – 20 September 1936) was a Spanish doctor, professor of medicine and gymnastics, sports promoter and leader. During the first decades of the 20th century, he was involved in many Catalan sports initiatives, both in gymnastics and athletics, being the second president of the in 1917–18, in 1920–21 and 1922–23. He was also the first president of the Catalan Olympic Committee and a key figure in the development of sport and Olympism in Catalonia. He organized gymnastic tables, athletic competitions, "School Hygiene" congresses and participated in various organisations.

Early life Jaime Garcia was born on 28 March 1874 in Barcelona, the son of Pere Garcia i Corbera (1833–1903) and Josepa Alsina i Gonfaus, who already had three children from her previous marriage, including sports promoter Eduardo Tolosa, Jaime's half brother.

His father founded the Gimnasio García in 1868 in Barcelona to give lessons to the fire department, of which he was the chief. He later opened the lessons to the public. which would become known as the "Kinesiterapic Institute". Featuring a garden and the most modern equipment of the time, Lectures by Josep Elías on sport and Olympism were also held there, and in 1913, he gave the conference that marked the starting point of Catalan Olympism.

Sporting career In 1915, Garcia was one of the founders of the Catalan Athletics Federation, the very first federation of such in Catalonia, becoming its first treasurer under the presidency of Àlvar Presta. He left the presidency of the Catalan Federation in 1932 and the Spanish Federation two years later, occupying the honorary presidency. In the following year, on June 25, 1924, he decided to found the Agrupació Olímpica del Gimnàs Garcia as a "cultural and sports society whose objective is the regeneration of our race, through the practice of the Olympic trials and as a basis gymnastics sports". His corpse appeared tortured and disfigured next to that of his son.