Joan Antoni Moreno is synonymous with hard work, discipline and perseverance, but also with Mallorcanism.
Eleven years ago, in 2014, he got into a canoe for the first time and since then, he has not stopped collecting medals and making a place for himself in the history of Balearic and national sport.
In 2024 he won, together with his partner Diego Domínguez, the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Paris in the C2 500 event.
"It symbolises a way of culminating ten years of effort and sacrifice," Moreno told club media. "I get up around seven in the morning, have a little breakfast and then pack my suitcase to come and train around half past eight. We do a water session that usually lasts an hour or an hour and a half and when we finish, we do another gym session. And in the afternoon, around four o'clock, another water session, a bit shorter, which usually lasts between 30 and 50 minutes."
"I needed a sport that would really tire me out and, above all, that would occupy me many days a week’. That's how he tried canoeing. ‘I loved it, I made a really good group of friends and I stayed. When I stand at the starting line, I just look straight ahead and pull. Like a donkey".
Joan Antoni does not hesitate to say that canoeing is his life, but he explains that in the midst of his demanding routine as a professional athlete, there is room for RCD Mallorca.: "When I don't have a training session, when they don't play a game too late and, above all, when they play a home game, I try to go to the pitch to cheer them on. And if not, I give my support from home."
Last August, Joan Antoni, along with Marcus Cooper and Juana Camilión, received a well-deserved tribute in the Estadi Mallorca Son Moix for their bronze medal in Paris. "That moment I would define as a tick on a list of things I would like to do sometime in my life. It was incredible to see the stadium from the inside, from below. It's a memory that I'll keep inside me and that made me very happy."
