Gender: Female

Cobi and Petra were the official mascots of the 1992 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, respectively. Cobi was designed by Javier Mariscal and is a Catalan Sheepdog in Cubist style. He was inspired by the interpretations of Picasso of a masterpiece from Velázquez, Las Meninas. Petra was originally one of Cobi's first drafts and was eventually scrapped, but was later revived as the Paralympic mascot. She is a tall, slender, brave, chatty, and friendly girl who is always positive and never gives up. Her personality is based on Mariscal's friend, the plastic artist Lorenza Böttner who had lost her arms in an electrical accident as a child. Before and during the Games, Cobi and Petra were shown in a variety of advertisements for Olympic and Paralympic sponsors. They even had their own television series, The Cobi Troupe. They also appeared on an extensive range of souvenirs, dubbed Cobiana, which proved to be a lucrative source of income. During the Games inflatable versions of Cobi and Petra were tethered to the Barcelona waterfront.