Supera Awards 2026

Iberdrola awards and highlights the best projects in support of gender equality

For years now, the Iberdrola Supera Awards have been promoting sports projects in pursuit of gender equality

The Iberdrola Supera Awards represent an ideal opportunity for sports projects that aim to foster gender equality to receive a financial boost.

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.

What’s more, the 2026 edition is doubly special, as Iberdrola is celebrating its 125 years of history this year.

The winning sports projects applied within one of the eight categories proposed by Iberdrola, each with a prize of €50,000, bringing the total prize fund to €400,000:

• Iberdrola Supera Base: if the project promotes grassroots sport among girls under the age of 16, improving their health and integration.
• Iberdrola Supera Competición: if the project helps to bring women into the world of competitive sport.
• Iberdrola Supera Inclusion: if the project helps to include people with disabilities.
• Iberdrola Supera Social: if the project helps to integrate women at risk of social exclusion through sport.
• Iberdrola Supera Outreach: if the project highlights initiatives that convey the importance of women’s role in sport and publicise the achievements of our female athletes.
• Iberdrola Supera Rural Development: if the project promotes sport for women and girls in rural municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants.
• Iberdrola Supera Health and Wellbeing: if the project helps to promote initiatives that, through sport, improve people’s health and wellbeing.
• Iberdrola Supera Veterans: if the project promotes sport among adult women so that they can continue to enhance their performance.

In previous years, award winners have ranged from a rhythmic gymnastics club in the Valencian municipality of Paiporta to a project aimed at raising awareness of the importance of mental health among athletes.

Projects submitted in due time and form will be assessed by a jury of honour comprising leading figures from the worlds of sport and the media.

Among the members of this panel of experts are Teresa Perales, the most decorated Spanish athlete in the history of the Games; Carolina Marín, Olympic champion and three-time world champion in badminton; Alexia Putellas, a world champion with the Spanish national team in 2023 and a two-time Ballon d’Or winner; Andrés Iniesta and Iker Casillas, world champions with the Spanish national team in 2010; María Pérez, a two-time world champion and Olympic gold medallist in race walking; Ana Peleteiro, European champion in the triple jump; Susana Rodríguez, Paralympic triathlon champion; Sandra Sánchez, Olympic karate champion; Ona Carbonell, a leading figure in artistic swimming with an extensive list of world and Olympic honours; Lydia Valentín, Olympic champion and multiple international medallist in weightlifting; and Jesús Carballo, two-time world champion in gymnastics. They are joined by the presenters Susanna Griso, Manu Carreño, Sonsoles Ónega, Paloma del Río and Pilar García de la Granja, the main new addition to this year’s line-up.

In previous years, the award winners have ranged from a rhythmic gymnastics club in Paiporta to a project aimed at raising awareness of the importance of mental health amongst athletes.