Alfonsina Maldonado (born 9 December 1984) is a Uruguayan agricultural technician, equestrian, lecturer and television personality.
She then moved to Yeguada del Lago in Caldes de Malavella, where she worked for five years and met Fandango, a horse with which she tried out for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
Maldonado gives motivational lectures to people who lack an extremity, demonstrating that this is not an impediment to being happy.
[1] In June 2016, she published an autobiographical book titled El desafío de vivir (The Challenge of Living).
[3] Maldonado tried out for the 2012 London Paralympics as the only Latin American in the Grade IV Grand Prize category.