21. Dezember 2010  
Madrid, Spain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Jesús Carballo Jr.: Spanish Federation s new president

Jesus CARBALLO (jr)

The former two-times world champion on high bar Jesús Carballo (jr) Martínez (34) was elected as the new president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Gymnastics.
The former  world class gymnast won the election with 49 votes, in front of two rival applicants Angelo Madroñal (24 votes) and Cheo Llera (03 votes).
Llera is the former coach of Spanish National team member Laura Campos. So Jesus Carballo (jr) is the youngest president ever of the Spanish Federation. 

Jesus Carballo, two-times
world champion on high bar (1996, 1999), on the photo as a member of the Spanish squad in a duel meet vs Germany (2003) in Dresden.

Jesús was the favourite to obtain the precidency after Antonio Esteban, the last president, resigned when irregularities in the budgest spending were found.
Since 2007 he has been appointed Technical Director for the Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation and the organisation of the World Cup Final is his first International event of such a scale.
Now the new president has to start in his new position with a debt of over 100,0000 € and one of most humiliating images in the history when the rhytmic delegation was kicked out from their hotel in Moscow during World Championships for not paying the accomodation.
His first decision will be to hire a new rhytmic national coach after Esteban fired Bulgarian Efrossina Angelova; Carballo will not change Álvaro Montesinos (men's coach) and Jesús Carballo (women), so the online service "The All around" reported.
After the tragic death of the four-times European champion (1957, Paris) Joaquin Blume in a plane crash in 1959 Jesus Carballo was the next Spanish gymnast, winning international top titles again: 
World Champion 1996 (San Juan, PUR) and 1999 (Tianjin, CHN) and in 1997 the silver medal in Lausanne on high bar.
Jesús Carballo is part of the Carballo saga, a family that has ruled Spanish gymnastics for over 30 years.
His father is the National Head coach of the women's team and his two brothers, Manuel Carballo (in active) and Javier Carballo (retired, but now a national coach) are part of the men's national team.
* Source: ESP Fed. website, "The all around"