Martínez began her sporting career at the age of 8 at the Jesús-María School in Ciudad de Asís, where Paqui Maneus trained her for 5 years. In 1983 she was the
Spanish Individual Champion in
Malaga and the following year she won gold at the French International Tournament in
Venissieux. In 1985 she was called up to join the Spanish team. Ana was incorporated into the Spanish senior group, training at the Moscardó Gymnasium in
Madrid under the orders of
Emilia Boneva and the group coach,
Ana Roncero. Georgi Neykov was the team's choreographer and Violeta Portaska was the pianist in charge of providing live music for the routines. By 1986, with the retirement of
María Fernández and several of her teammates, she became a starter of the new group. That she year won bronze at the
European Championships in
Florence, along
Eva Obalat,
Natalia Marín,
Estela Martín,
Marisa Centeno and
Elena Velasco. A month later they traveled to
Tokyo to compete in the
World Cup Final, where they achieved 4th place. Since 1987 groups started to compete with two routines, thus the creation of event finals. At the end of September 1987, she retired with fellow Alicante gymnast
Marisa Centeno. Both argued lack of motivation due to the lack of compensation for the effort they made. In 1996 she obtained a degree in physical education from the INEF in Madrid. Since 1999 she has been a teacher at different Secondary Education Centres in the province of Alicante. From 2005 to 2010 she taught the subject "technical, tactical and didactic foundations of Gymnastics" at the
Miguel Hernández University in
Elche, to the first class of the Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, as an associate professor. Since 2015 she has worked as a tenured Physical Education teacher at the IES María Blasco in San Vicente del Raspeig in
Alicante. After Emilia Boneva's death on 20 September 2019, Ana and other former national gymnasts gathered to pay tribute to her during the
Euskalgym held on 16 November 2019, the event took place before 8,500 attendees at the
Bilbao Exhibition Center de
Baracaldo and was followed by a dinner in her honor. == References ==