IBERDROLA SUPERA AWARDS

We recognise individuals and organisations that promote women's empowerment through sport

Iberdrola Supera Awards Objectives

The Iberdrola Supera Awards aim to recognise and support projects, programmes and initiatives that contribute to achieving the following objectives:

• To encourage the practice of sport by women.
• To provide better facilities and equipment for women's sports.
• To generate family, social and educational reconciliation programmes for sportswomen.
• To develop initiatives to promote the growth of grassroots women's sport.
• To value the successes and give visibility to sportswomen and their competitions, creating new references in society in women's sport.
• To promote real equality and empowerment of women in society at large.

Categories of the 2024 Iberdrola Supera Awards

Iberdrola Supera Base

Recognition and support to that activity, project and/or program that stands out for the promotion of grassroots sports among girls (up to 16 years of age) for the improvement of health, integration and quality of life of people.

Iberdrola Supera Competición

This category of the Supera Awards will value the recognition and support of that activity, project and/or program that facilitates the incorporation of women into competition, in any of its modalities.

Iberdrola Supera Inclusión

Recognition and support of that activity, project and/or program that is an example of inclusion in the practice of sports for athletes with special abilities.

Iberdrola Supera Social

Recognition and support of activities, projects and/or programs that promote the social integration of women through sports.

Iberdrola Supera Difusión

Recognition and support of that activity, project and/or program that is a reference in the dissemination of sports practiced by women and contributes to transmit the importance of the role of women in sports and in society.

Iberdrola Supera Impulso Rural

This category singularly recognizes activities that stand out for the promotion of sport among girls or women in municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants.

The Iberdrola Supera 2024 Awards, which include six categories, are worth €50,000. Applications for the Iberdrola Supera 2024 Awards may be submitted until 10 June. A Jury will then select the winning projects. They are sports and media personalities, including the world champion coach of the Spanish national football team, Vicente del Bosque, and the best karate player of all time, Sandra Sánchez.

Winners of the V edition of the Supera Awards

The 2024 edition received over 1.300 nominations from associations, sports clubs and federations, primary and secondary, and public or private entities, compared to more than the 900 that registered in 2023. In the Supera Awards 2024, the final decision was made by a Jury of Honor selected by the Technical Committee of the Awards and composed of renowned personalities such as Vicente del Bosque, Alexia Putellas, Carolina Marín, Sandra Sánchez, Paco González, Ona Carbonel, Teresa Perales, Fátima Iglesias and Paloma del Río, among others. 

Social Category: Swimming towards resilience: coming back after a stroke

In the Social category, the winning organisation was the Fundación Segunda Parte for its project 'Swimming towards resilience: coming back after a stroke', which seeks to promote swimming among women who have suffered a stroke to improve their quality of life and independence.

Base Category: Skate on

The Murcian Club M-Urban has been awarded in the Grassroots category for the project 'Adelante, Patina' [Skate on], which seeks to promote women's grassroots sport in speed skating. The main objective is to increase the participation of girls and young women in this sport in Murcia. There are currently 70 girls involved in this project and the plan is to reach 300.

Competition Category: From junior to senior. We want to play with the best

The Barcelona 3x3 Academy Sports Association was chosen as the winner in the Competition category for its project 'From junior to senior. We want to play with the best', which seeks to consolidate a 3x3 basketball team made up of 8 players under the age of 19 to compete in tournaments in the 2024 season. Currently, 65 girls aged 9 to 26 are participating in the academy.

Dissemination Category: Visibilitas.com

The digital newspaper Visibilitas.com won the Dissemination category. This digital media specialises in high-performance women's sport and covers information on sportswomen as well as clubs, national teams and federations. It works to improve the visibility and the empowerment of the role of women in sport.

​​Inclusion Category: Find your wave

In the Inclusion category, the award went to Aloka Surf & SUP Eskola for its 'Find your wave' project, a project that allows anyone, whatever their physical or mental condition, to enjoy the sea through surfing. For example, they collaborate with APNABI (Association of families of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder), who come once a month to practice this sport.

Rural Impulse Category: Rural Judo School

And the A.D. Escola Judo Club was chosen as the winner of the Impulsa Rural category for its project 'Rural Judo School', which seeks to promote Judo schools in rural municipalities and encourage, through this sport, gender equality, the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits and the fundamental values of judo (courtesy, friendship, respect, honour, modesty and self-control).

What was the IV edition of the Iberdrola Supera Awards like?

The awards ceremony of the fourth Supera Awards was held in Madrid on 29 November 2023. Ignacio Galán, Executive Chairman of Iberdrola, was in charge of presenting the awards to the winners, who were recognised for their promotion of equality through sport. Endowed with a total of €300,000, the awards served to make the winning projects in each of the six categories a reality.

The Jury of Honour was made up of personalities such as Alexia Putellas, Jesús Carballo, Manu Carreño, Carolina Marín, Paloma del Río, Marta Arce y Ona Carbonell, among others.

The winners were:

• The Club C.D Guretxoko from the Basque Country, in the Supera Base category.
• The Club Balonmán Cañiza from Galicia, in the Supera Competition category.
• María Muñóz, who will help persons with restricted mobility and/or sensory handicap in the Canary Islands to experience the thrill of diving, in the Supera Inclusion category.
• The EMET Foundation, in the Supera Social category.
• The Siero Municipal Sports Board, in the Supera Difusión category.
• The Club Patín Gijón Solimar (Telecable Hockey Club), in Asturias, in the Supera Innovation category.

Committed to SDG 5

Gender equality -the scope of action of the fifth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal- is one of the Iberdrola Group's core values and forms part of its social dividend. In 2016, with the approval of its Equal Opportunity and Reconciliation Policy, the company was a pioneer in its firm and global commitment to equality and the empowerment of women.

Iberdrola España promotes equal opportunities, work-life balance and the comprehensive development of its employees within the organisation, but also in society. This commitment is materialised through its promotion of women's sports, which it considers to be the ideal vehicle for achieving this goal and which also serves to create female role models in society and to promote healthy lifestyle habits from an early age.

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