What is Gema Victoria Hassen-Bey González?
{{Spanish name|Hassen-Bey|González}} [[File:Gema Hassen-Bey en la presentación de la ‘XIV Carrera de la Mujer’ de Madrid.jpg|thumb|Gema Hassen-Bey in 2017.]] '''Gema Victoria Hassen-Bey González''' (born May 5, 1967 in [[Madrid]]) is a [[Fencing|wheelchair fencing athlete]] from [[Spain]] and journalist. She is a Category B fencer. She has a disability: she uses a wheelchair. She became a [[paraplegic]] when she and her family were in a car [[accident]]. She is a [[journalist]]. <ref name=cpe/> She fenced at the [[1996 Summer Paralympics]]. She finished third in the women's sword. She fenced at the [[2000 Summer Paralympics]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]. She fenced at the [[2004 Summer Paralympics]] in [[Athens]], [[Greece]]. She fenced at the [[2008 Summer Paralympics]] in [[Beijing]], [[China]].<ref name=cpe>{{cite web|title=Biografías|url=http://www.paralimpico.es/publicacion/buscador/datosbiografia.asp?idatleta=50829232Z|publisher=Comité Paralímpico Español|location=Spain|language=Spanish|date=2012|accessdate=18 May 2013}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She intends to become the first woman in a wheelchair to reach the top of [[Kilimanjaro]], although before it ascended in 2017 to the top of [[Spain]], the [[Teide]] on the island of [[Tenerife]], of 3,718 meters.<ref>[https://as.com/masdeporte/2017/09/19/polideportivo/1505774649_342009.html El Teide será el próximo gran reto de Gema Hassen-Bey]</ref> Gema Hassen-Bey became the first Paralympic athlete in the world in a wheelchair to reach 3,000 meters altitude with only the momentum of her arms. Initially, Gema wanted to reach the top of Teide, although, due to weather conditions, it could not meet this objective.<ref>[http://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/hassen-bey-abandona-ascenso-teide-3186009/0/ Gema Hassen-Bey abandona el ascenso el Teide a 3.000 metros]</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassen-Bey Gonzalez, Gema Victoria}} [[Category:Spanish fencers]] [[C