Biography of nancy navalta philippines
Nancy navalta philippines...
Biography of nancy navalta philippines
Nancy Navalta
Filipino track and field athlete and coach
Nancy Navalta is a Filipino retired track and field athlete and coach. She is known for being a prospect of the national team for her feats in the Palarong Pambansa in the 1990s.
Her career ended in 1996, after she was found out to be intersex.
Early life
Hailing from the province of Pangasinan,[1] Navalta was born intersex, was assigned female at birth and was raised as a girl.[2][3] She helped her family in their livelihood by carrying rocks which she later attributes as the cause for her physique in the absence of prior formal training as a competitive athlete.[1]
Career
Navalta started her sporting career at age 18.
Biography of nancy navalta philippines today
She started competing at the Palarong Pambansa, the national games for student-athletes in the Philippines, in 1991. In that edition held in Iloilo, Navalta failed to win an event. From 1992 to 1994, she began to set records but question on her gender began