The Best Olympic Athletes from Spain
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- 1Xavier Hernández Creus (born 25 January 1980), known as Xavi, is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of La Liga club Barcelona. Widely considered one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Xavi was renowned for his passing, vision, ball retention, and positioning. Xavi was awarded the IFFHS World's Best Playmaker award four times, all straight between 2008 and 2011. He was included in the FIFA FIFPro World XI on six occasions: 2008 to 2013, and the UEFA Team of the Year five times: 2008 to 2012. In 2020 Xavi was named in the Ballon d'Or Dream Team, a greatest all-time XI published by France Football magazine.
- Date Of Birth: 01-25-1980
- Place Of Birth: Terrassa,Spain,Vallès Occidental,Earth,Europe
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 68.0
- 2Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is ranked world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), has been ranked No. 1 for 209 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. Nadal has won 21 Grand Slam men's singles titles, the most in history. He has won 90 ATP singles titles, with 62 on clay, including a record 13 French Open titles and 26 of his 36 Masters titles. His 81 consecutive wins on clay is the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 06-03-1986
- Place Of Birth: Manacor,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's Singles
- Weight: 85.0
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Gold medal
- 3Pau Gasol Sáez (born July 6, 1980) is a retired Spanish professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team. Gasol has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, and is one of only three non-American NBA players to have won that award. He is the older brother of fellow NBA player Marc Gasol. Internationally, Gasol has won two Olympic silver medals, an Olympic bronze medal, a FIBA World Cup title, and three EuroBasket titles with the Spanish national basketball team.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 07-06-1980
- Place Of Birth: Barcelona, Spain
- Olympic Sport: Basketball
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
- Weight: 115
- Olympic Medalist Games: The London 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: The London 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal
- Juan Carlos Navarro Feijoo, commonly known as either Juan Carlos Navarro or J.C. Navarro (born June 13, 1980), and nicknamed La Bomba (The Bomb), is a Spanish former professional basketball player. At 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) and 91 kg (201 lb), he played at the shooting guard position. On March 14, 2014, he was named a EuroLeague Basketball Legend.A two-time EuroLeague winner and the EuroLeague MVP of 2009, Navarro was a member of the EuroLeague 2001–10 All-Decade Team. As the captain of the senior Spanish national basketball team, he won, among other medals, a FIBA World Cup gold medal in 2006, two Summer Olympics silver medals in 2008 and 2012, as well as two EuroBasket gold medals in 2009 and 2011. He earned two All-EuroBasket Team selections, and was the competition's MVP in 2011.
- Date Of Birth: 06-13-1980
- Place Of Birth: Sant Feliu de Llobregat,Barcelona,Spain,Catalonia,Earth
- Nationality: Spain
- Marc Gasol Sáez (born 29 January 1985) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB. The center is a two-time All-NBA Team member and a three-time NBA All-Star. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2013, and won an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019. Gasol was drafted 48th overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2007 NBA draft. After having his rights traded to Memphis in February 2008 in a deal that sent his older brother Pau Gasol to the Lakers, he signed with the Grizzlies and remained with the franchise until being traded to Toronto in 2019. He rejoined the Lakers in 2020 for one season. Gasol has been a regular member of the Spain national team since 2006. He has won two Olympic silver medals and two FIBA Basketball World Cup titles. In the EuroBasket, he has won two titles, a silver medal, and two bronze medals.
- Date Of Birth: 01-29-1985
- Place Of Birth: Barcelona,Spain,Catalonia,Barcelona,Earth
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 120.0
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Joane Somarriba
Joane Somarriba Arrola (born 11 August 1972 in Gernika, Biscay) is a former Spanish cyclist.She won the Grande Boucle in 2000, 2001 and 2003. She achieved a time trial victory at the 2003 World Championships in Hamilton, Canada. Additionally, she was a time trial silver medallist at the 2005 World Championships in Madrid and took a road race bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships in Zolder/Hasselt, Belgium.She retired from cycling in 2005.- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 08-11-1972
- Place Of Birth: Guernica,Biscay,Spain,Basque Country,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
7Kiko Narváez
- 8David Cal Figueroa (born 10 October 1982 in Cangas do Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoeist who has competed since 1999. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won five medals with a gold (C-1 1000 m: 2004 Summer Olympics) and four silvers (C-1 500 m: 2004, 2008; C-1 1000 m: 2008 and 2012; C-1 1000 m: 2012). With this latest medal in the London 2012 Olympic Games, he became the Spanish athlete with more Olympic medals of all time. Cal was a junior world championship bronze medallist in Zagreb in 1999 (C-1 1000 m). The following year he became European C-1 500 m junior champion at Boulogne, France in 2000. He also won the C-1 1000 m bronze medal. He was a reserve at the Sydney Olympics. At the 2002 European under-23 championships in Zagreb, Croatia, Cal won the C-1 500 m bronze medal. Cal has competed on the senior circuit since 2003, winning five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes a gold (C-1 500 m: 2007), two silvers (C-1 1000 m: 2003, 2005, 2011), and a bronze (C-1 1000 m: 2007). Cal is 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) tall and weighs 91 kg (200 lbs).
- Date Of Birth: 10-10-1982
- Place Of Birth: Cangas,Pontevedra,Spain,Galicia,Earth
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's C-1 500 metres,Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's C-1 1000 metres,Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's C-1 500 metres,Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's C-1 1000 metres
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2004 Summer Olympics,2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal,Gold medal
- Igor González de Galdeano Aranzabal (born 1 November 1973 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer and most recently, the team manager of UCI ProTeam Euskaltel–Euskadi. Following a promising start to his career at Vitalicio Seguros, where he finished the 1999 Vuelta a España in second place, González de Galdeano became a key rival of Lance Armstrong in the middle of his Tour de France supremacy. In the 2002 Tour de France, González de Galdeano wore the yellow jersey for seven days and in the 2003 Vuelta a España wore the gold jersey for one day. At an average speed of 55.17 km/h, González de Galdeano also holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 11-01-1973
- Place Of Birth: Vitoria-Gasteiz,Spain,Álava,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Victoria Padial Hernández is an Olympic Biathlete from Spain.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 08-10-1988
- Place Of Birth: Granada,Spain,Granada,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Biathlon
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 53.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- Ruben Verges is a professional snowboarder.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 03-11-1987
- Olympic Sport: Snowboarding
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- Rocio Delgado is a freestyle skier.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 07-21-1977
- Place Of Birth: Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Freestyle skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 61.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- María José Rienda Contreras (born 12 June 1975 in Granada, Spain) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer. Currently she is the President of the Consejo Superior de Deportes and Secretary of state for Sports in Spain.Rienda Contreras has 6 World Cup victories, all in giant slalom. Her victories in 2005 were the first Spanish World Cup victories since Blanca Fernández Ochoa won in December 1991. María José Rienda Contreras represented Spain at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 06-12-1975
- Place Of Birth: Granada,Spain,Granada,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Alpine skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 68.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2002 Winter Olympics,2006 Winter Olympics,1998 Winter Olympics,1994 Winter Olympics,2010 Winter Olympics
- 14Joan Llaneras Rosselló (born May 17, 1969 in Porreres, Majorca) is a former Spanish World and Olympic points race champion track cyclist. He specialises in the madison and points race events. Llaneras began his cycling career on the road with the ONCE professional cycling team but switched to concentrate on track cycling. Llaneras is a four-time world champion in the points race and three time champion in the Madison. He is a double Olympic champion, winning the event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and in Beijing in 2008. Llaneras teamed up with Isaac Gálvez to compete on the lucrative Six Days of Ghent racing circuit on November 2006. It resulted with the death of Gálvez after colliding with Dimitri De Fauw and hitting the railings. Llaneras had decided to quit cycling, but a few months later in an interview with Spanish daily newspaper Marca, he said: Clearly I thought about leaving it all. It was the first reaction. Logical... Natural... Normal after what had happened, but life goes on, and giving it all up, unfortunately, will not solve anything. In addition, the track is my life, is my dream, my family, it is almost everything to me. He returned to competition in 2007, and although he had no intention of returning to Madison racing, Llaneras teamed up with Antonio Tauler to take the silver medal in the Madison at the 2008 Summer Olympics, adding to the gold he won in the points race three days earlier. In doing so, he became the Spaniard with the most Olympic medals ever, with 2 gold and 2 silver to his name. After the Beijing Olympics, Llaneras retired.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 05-17-1969
- Place Of Birth: Porreres,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Track cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's points race,Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Men's points race,Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's Madison,Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Points Race Men
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics,2000 Summer Olympics,2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics,1996 Summer Olympics,2000 Summer Olympics,2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Gold medal,Silver medal
- 15Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spanish pronunciation: [biɾˈxinja ˈrwano pasˈkwal]; born 21 September 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She has moderate success in singles, winning three career titles and reaching two Grand Slam quarterfinals and a top-30 ranking, but she has been far more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 11 Grand Slam titles: ten women's doubles (eight partnering Paola Suárez of Argentina, and two partnering Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain) and one mixed doubles (partnering Tomás Carbonell of Spain). Between 2002 and 2004 Virginia and Paola reached nine consecutive Grand Slam finals (won five) and they reached at least the semifinals of the last twelve Grand Slam tournaments they played in (winning run came to an end when they lost in the Wimbledon semifinals).
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 09-21-1973
- Place Of Birth: Madrid,Spain,Madrid,Madrid metropolitan area,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Tennis
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Doubles,Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's Doubles
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2004 Summer Olympics,2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal
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- Sonia Lafuente Martínez (born 7 December 1991) is a Spanish figure skater. She is a six-time Spanish national champion. Lafuente became the first Spanish skater to medal on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit when she won silver at the 2006 Mexico Cup.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 12-07-1991
- Place Of Birth: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,Spain,Las Palmas,Canary Islands,Gran Canaria
- Olympic Sport: Figure skating
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
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Agustín Millán
Agustín Milián Gracía (born August 28, 1958) is a former Spanish handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.In 1980 he was part of the Spanish team which finished fifth in the Olympic tournament. He played five matches and scored twelve goals. Four years later he finished eighth with the Spanish team in the 1984 Olympic tournament. He played three matches and scored three goals.- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 08-28-1958
- Olympic Sport: Team handball
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics,Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medalist Games: 1984 Summer Olympics,1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 1980 Summer Olympics,1984 Summer Olympics
- 19Ricard Rubio i Vives (born October 21, 1990) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Rubio became the youngest player ever to play in the Spanish ACB League on October 15, 2005, at age 14. On June 25, 2009, he was drafted with the fifth pick in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Timberwolves, making him the first player born in the 1990s to be drafted by the NBA. The Timberwolves had an agreement in principle with his former Spanish team, DKV Joventut, to buy out his contract, but Rubio backed out of the deal. On August 31, 2009, Joventut traded the rights to Rubio to FC Barcelona, and Rubio signed a six-year contract with FC Barcelona the following day. In 2011, Rubio joined the Minnesota Timberwolves, and spent six seasons in Minnesota before being traded to the Jazz in June 2017.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 10-21-1990
- Place Of Birth: El Masnou,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Basketball
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men
- Weight: 82.0
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal
- 20Samuel "Samu" Sánchez González (born 5 February 1978) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, provisionally suspended from the sport after a positive doping test. He was the gold medal winner in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Men's Road Race. In the following years Sánchez proved himself in hilly classics and stage races as one of the most important riders in the peloton. He's also known as one of the best descenders in the peloton. He finished in the top 6 of the Tour de France three times and in the top 10 of the Vuelta a España 6 times. Other notable achievements include winning the Vuelta a Burgos in 2010, the Tour of the Basque Country in 2012 and five stages of the Vuelta a España.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 02-05-1978
- Place Of Birth: Oviedo,Spain,Asturias,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Road cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's individual road race
- Weight: 65.0
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Gold medal
- 21Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born 25 April 1980) is a Spanish road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. Valverde's biggest wins have been the Vuelta a España in 2009, Critérium du Dauphiné in 2008 and 2009, Tour of the Basque Country in 2017, Volta a Catalunya in 2009, 2017 and 2018, Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008, 2015 and 2017, La Flèche Wallonne in 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Clásica de San Sebastián in 2008 and 2014, the 2006 and 2008 UCI ProTours, the 2014 and 2015 UCI World Tours, and the road race in the 2018 World Championships. Overall, Valverde has 123 professional wins. Prior to his Worlds win, he already held the record for most medals won at World Championships - he twice collected the silver medal in the World Championships, in 2003 and 2005, as well as the bronze four times in 2006, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Valverde has placed in the Top 10 of a Grand Tour seventeen times. Valverde is rare in combining different specialities in road bicycle racing, being a strong climbing specialist, sprinter and a good time-trialist. The online database Cycling Ranking ranks him as the 4th best cyclist of all time. After a lengthy court battle, he was suspended for two years as part of the Operación Puerto blood doping investigation, but he returned to competition in 2012 upon completion of the ban. All his results from 2010 were stripped, including the overall win in the 2010 Tour de Romandie, and he did not compete in 2011.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 04-25-1980
- Place Of Birth: Murcia,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's individual road race
- Weight: 61.0
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- 22Alberto Urdiales Márquez (born 17 November 1968 in Santander, Cantabria) is a Spanish handball player. He competed in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympics. In 1992, he was a member of the Spanish handball team which finished fifth in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches and scored 30 goals. Four years later he won the bronze medal with the Spanish team in the 1996 Olympics. He played all seven matches and scored 31 goals. At the 2000 Games, he won his second Olympic bronze medal as part of the Spanish team. He played three matches and scored one goal.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 11-17-1968
- Place Of Birth: Santander,Spain,Cantabria,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Team handball
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament,Handball at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament,Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2000 Summer Olympics,1996 Summer Olympics,1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 1996 Summer Olympics,1992 Summer Olympics,2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Bronze medal
- Isaac Gálvez López (May 20, 1975, in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain - November 26, 2006, Ghent) was a Spanish track and road racing cyclist who rode for Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears in the UCI ProTour. He died during the Six Days of Ghent cycling event in Belgium after colliding with Dimitri De Fauw and crashing against the railing. He died from internal bleeding. At the time of the accident he had only been married for three weeks. After this, De Fauw suffered from depression and he committed suicide on November 6, 2009. After the second stage of the 2007 edition of the Vuelta a Murcia was cancelled due to strong winds, the organisers dedicated the day's prizes to Gálvez in his memory. Gálvez's sister Débora Gálvez is also a racing cyclist.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 05-20-1975
- Place Of Birth: Vilanova i la Geltrú,Spain,Barcelona,Catalonia,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Road cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2000 Summer Olympics
- José Iván Gutiérrez Palacios (born 27 November 1978 in Hinojedo, Suances, Cantabria) is a Spanish professional former road bicycle racer. He was Spanish Road national champion, three time Spanish time trial champion and won a silver medal in the 2005 Time Trial World Championships. He retired in 2014 with UCI ProTeam Movistar Team, the team he rode the vast majority of his career for.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 11-27-1976
- Place Of Birth: Santander,Spain,Cantabria,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- 25Albert Rocas Comas (born 16 June 1982) is a Spanish handball player. He currently plays for CB Logroño. He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as a member of the Spain national handball team. The team won a bronze medal, defeating Croatia. He was included as "Best right wing" in that tournament's All Star Team. At the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship, the national team became world champion for the second time.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 06-21-1982
- Place Of Birth: Palafrugell,Catalonia,Spain,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Team handball
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Bronze medal
- Ferran Terra is an alpine skier from Spain. He competed for Spain at the 2010 Winter Olympics where his best result was 27th in the super-G.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 03-10-1987
- Place Of Birth: Mataró,Barcelona,Spain,Catalonia,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Alpine skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 85.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- Ibon Idigoras is a professional snowboarder.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 11-08-1979
- Place Of Birth: Zarautz,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Snowboarding
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 72.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2006 Winter Olympics
- José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (born January 19, 1970 in Girona) is a former Spanish racing cyclist, specialising in track cycling. He has won three silver and one bronze world championship medals and a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Escuredo has also won ten titles at the Spanish national track cycling championships. Escuredo mostly competes in the keirin and team sprint events.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 01-19-1970
- Place Of Birth: Girona,Spain,Girona,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Laura Orgué Vila is a Spanish cross country skier who has competed since 2004. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of 10th in the 30 km skating at Sochi in 2014. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Orgue finished 29th in the 30 km, 35th in the 10 km, and did not start the individual sprint event. Same year, in 2009, she reached the bronze medal on 10 km F at the U23 World Champiomships in Praz de Lys-Sommand. Furthermore, she finished second in the OPA Cup. Her best World Cup finish was 17th in a 10 km event at Poland in 2014.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 09-11-1986
- Place Of Birth: Barcelona,Spain,Catalonia,Barcelona,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Cross-country skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 55.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- 30Alberto Entrerrios (born 7 November 1976 in Gijón, Asturias) is a Spanish former professional handball player. He is 192 cm tall and weighs 102 kg. He spent 10 seasons (2002–2012) playing for BM Ciudad Real and 1 season (2011–2012) for BM Atlético de Madrid.He has won the Champions League title with BM Ciudad Real, together with two World Championships (Tunisia 2005 and Spain 2013) with the Spanish national team. He accounts for 225 international matches with Spain, which makes him a seasoned international handball player. His brother Raúl Entrerríos is also a Spanish international handball player.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 11-07-1976
- Place Of Birth: Gijón,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Team handball
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament
- Weight: 100.0
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Bronze medal
- 31Inmaculada Concepción "Conchita" Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player. She was the first Spanish player to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, where she beat Martina Navratilova in the 1994 final. Martínez also was the singles runner-up at the 1998 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. She reached a highest world ranking of No. 2 in October 1995 and finished the season in the top 10 for nine years. Martínez won 33 singles and 13 doubles titles during her 18-year career. Martínez was the Spanish Fed Cup team captain from 2013 to 2017 and the Spanish Davis Cup team captain from 2015 to 2017, leading the Davis Cup team back into the top-tier World Group under her captaincy. She has also served as a part-time coach to Garbiñe Muguruza, guiding her to the 2017 Wimbledon title, and is currently the full-time coach to Karolina Pliskova.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 04-16-1972
- Place Of Birth: Monzón
- Olympic Sport: Tennis
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Doubles
- Weight: 59.0
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal
- Regino Hernandez is a professional snowboarder.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 07-25-1991
- Olympic Sport: Snowboarding
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- 33José Luis Abajo Gómez nicknamed Pirri (born 22 June 1978) is a Spanish épée fencer. Abajo won the silver medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after losing against France in the final. He accomplished this with his teammates Ignacio Canto, Juan Castañeda and Eduardo Sepulveda Puerto. He won the bronze medal in the Épée competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, defeating Hungarian Gábor Boczkó. Being this the first Olympic medal won by Spain in fencing, and becoming the Olympic medal number 100 (99 according to the IOC) in the history of Spain, regarding Winter and Summer Olympics. In 2013 he was inducted in the Hall of Fame of the International Fencing Federation.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 06-22-1978
- Place Of Birth: Madrid,Spain,Madrid,Madrid metropolitan area,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Fencing
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's Épée, Individual
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Bronze medal
- Jordi Font is a professional snowboarder.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 05-01-1975
- Olympic Sport: Snowboarding
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2006 Winter Olympics,2010 Winter Olympics
- Vicenc Vilarrubla is an Olympic Cross-country Skier from Spain.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 01-31-1981
- Place Of Birth: Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Cross-country skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 70.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- Javier Gutiérrez is an Olympic Cross-country Skier from Spain.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 03-29-1985
- Place Of Birth: Reinosa,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Cross-country skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 65.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
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Igor Astarloa
Igor Astarloa Askasibar (born March 29, 1976 in Ermua, Basque Country) is a retired cyclist from Spain.- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 03-29-1976
- Place Of Birth: Ermua,Debabarrena
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Ander Mirambell Viñas (born 17 February 1983 in Calella, Barcelona) is a Spanish skeleton racer who has competed since 2005. He is Spain's first skeleton athlete. His best World Cup finish was 14th in the men's event at Whistler in November 2010. Mirambell's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 22nd in the men's event in 2013. He participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics, where he finished in 24th place. In 2014 he published a book, Rompiendo el hielo (English: Breaking the Ice).
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 02-17-1983
- Place Of Birth: Barcelona, Spain
- Olympic Sport: Skeleton
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 80
- Olympic Games Participant: 2014 Winter Olympics, 2010 Winter Olympics
- Carlos Sastre Candil (pronounced [ˈkaɾ.los ˈsas.tɾe ˈkandil]; born 22 April 1975) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer and winner of the 2008 Tour de France. He consistently achieved great results in the Vuelta a España and equally good showings in the Tour de France. Sastre established himself as a strong and stable climbing specialist, and after working to improve his individual time trial skills, he became a contender for the top GC spots in the Grand Tours. In total, Sastre finished in the top ten overall of fifteen Grand Tours during his career. Also remarkable is that Sastre never tested positive or was caught in a doping investigation given he performed at the top level of cycling for many years. Sastre continues to be widely regarded, following the Lance Armstrong affair, as one of the very few 'clean' riders to have won the Tour de France in modern times as he has never been involved in a doping affair. In fact, with respect to doping allegations and admissions that have surrounded Tour winners in recent decades, Sastre has been called "Don Limpio" ("Mr. Clean" in Spanish) by the press and others.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 04-22-1975
- Place Of Birth: Madrid,Spain,Madrid,Madrid metropolitan area,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 60.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Diego Ruiz Asín is a Spanish cross-country skier who has competed in the World Cup since 1998. Ruiz competed at three Winter Olympics and in four FIS Nordic World Ski Championships from 2003 to 2009. His best Olympic result is a 23rd place in the 50 km event in 2006. His best World Championships result is a 17th place at the 50 km event in Oberstdorf in 2005, and his best World Cup result is a 18th place at a 15 km event in Changchun in 2007. Ruiz was born in Jaca, where he currently lives.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 06-25-1977
- Place Of Birth: Jaca,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Cross-country skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 65.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- Paul de la Cuesta is an Olympic Alpine Skier from Spain.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 11-28-1988
- Place Of Birth: Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Alpine skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 76.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- Queralt Castellet Ibáñez (born 17 June 1989 in Sabadell) is a Spanish snowboarder. She was silver medalist at the 2015 World Championships. She competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and finished tenth in halfpipe at the 2007 World Snowboard Championships. During the 2007-08 Snowboarding World Cup circuit she placed on the podium three times, and overall she placed third in the halfpipe section of the 2007–08 World Cup. At the 2010 Winter Olympics she scored a 44.3 on her first qualifying run, third highest. However, she suffered a concussion while practicing in the lead-up to the final and was subsequently forced to withdraw. At the World Cup, she has four victories, and seven additional podiums in halfpipe, and another podium in big air.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 06-17-1989
- Place Of Birth: Sabadell,Spain,Barcelona,Vallès Occidental,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Snowboarding
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2006 Winter Olympics,2010 Winter Olympics
- Javier Fernández López (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ feɾˈnandeθ ˈlopeθ]; born 15 April 1991) is a Spanish figure skater. He is the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World champion (2015, 2016), a two-time World bronze medalist (2013, 2014), a seven-time European champion (2013–2019), a two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist (2014, 2015), a three-time Rostelecom Cup champion (2014–2016), a two-time Grand Prix in France champion (2016–2017) and an eight-time Spanish national champion (2010, 2012–2018). In addition to his bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Fernández placed 14th at the 2010 Winter Olympics and 4th at the 2014 Winter Olympics. He is the first skater from Spain to medal at an Olympic Games, ISU Championship or a Grand Prix event. Fernández is the second man to break the 100-point barrier in the short program, the 200-point barrier in the long program, and the 300-point barrier in the total score. As of 24 May 2017, he has the second highest personal best scores in both segments and third highest in the combined score.In recognition of his achievements, Fernández received the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit by the Spanish government on 19 April 2016.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 04-15-1991
- Place Of Birth: Madrid,Spain,Madrid,Madrid metropolitan area,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Figure skating
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- 44Raúl Entrerríos Rodríguez (born 12 February 1981) is a Spanish handball player for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team.He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as a member of the Spain national handball team. The team won a bronze medal, defeating Croatia. His older brother Alberto Entrerríos is also a Spanish international handball player.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 02-12-1981
- Place Of Birth: Gijón,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Team handball
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament
- Weight: 95.0
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Bronze medal
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Leire Olaberria
Women's Track cycling, points raceLeire Olaberria Dorronsoro (pronounced [ˈleiɾe]); born 17 February 1977 in Ikaztegieta, Gipuzkoa is a Spanish Basque racing cyclist. She won the Bronze medal in the Women's points race at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing behind Marianne Vos (Netherlands) and Yoanka González (Cuba).- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 02-17-1977
- Place Of Birth: Ikaztegieta,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Track cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's Points Race
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Bronze medal
- Óscar Freire Gómez (born 15 February 1976) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx and Peter Sagan. In the later years of his career, he became more of a classics rider. He has won the cycling monument Milan–San Remo three times, four stages in the Tour de France and seven stages of the Vuelta a España, throughout a successful career. Despite his diminutive stature, Freire was a good sprinter. He had a training philosophy where he rode shorter distances than most pro cyclists, sometimes covering only about half the distance his colleagues would.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 02-15-1976
- Place Of Birth: Torrelavega,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 63.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
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Toni Tauler
Men's Track cycling, MadisonAntonio Tauler Llull (born 11 April 1974) is a Spanish professional racing cyclist from Santa Margalida.- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 04-11-1974
- Place Of Birth: Palma de Mallorca,Mallorca,Spain,Balearic Islands,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Track cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's Madison
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal
- Andrea Jardi is an Olympic Alpine Skier from Spain.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 03-13-1990
- Place Of Birth: Tarragona,Spain,Catalonia,Earth,Europe
- Olympic Sport: Alpine skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 56.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics
- 49Gervasio Deferr Ángel (born 7 November 1980) is a retired gymnast from Spain who competed at three Olympic Games. He became the Olympic champion in men's vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney (scored 9.712) and has repeated the feat at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens (scoring 9.737 average — vault 1 scored 9.687; vault 2 scored 9.787). Each of his ankles show a tattoo with the logo of one of these two Olympic Games. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he won the silver medal on the floor exercise with a score of 15.775. Deferr started in gymnastics at the age of five. He considered floor exercise as his favorite event and has had some success in major competitions. He finished in second place with the silver medal on floor at the 1999 World Championships of Gymnastics with a score of 9.750 points, which he repeated eight years later with another silver medal at the 2007 World Championships as well as many medals in the same apparatus in the World Cup of Gymnastics, between them: World Cup 2000 in Ljubljana, Slovenia — 9.688 points (silver), or World Cup 2001 in Paris, France — 9.625 points (gold).He also finished second at the 2002 World Championships on floor exercise but the medal was taken away after he tested positive for marijuana. A curious aspect of Deferr's personality is his stating that he considers sleeping a hobby. He also has an iguana as a pet and likes Japanese and Korean cultures. He has appeared on the Japanese game show Sasuke (Ninja Warrior in the United States), failing to complete the first stage. He was unable to make it over the 15 foot wall. In January 2011, he announced his retirement.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 11-07-1980
- Place Of Birth: Premià de Mar
- Olympic Sport: Artistic gymnastics
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's Vault,Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's Floor Exercises,Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's Vault
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2004 Summer Olympics,2008 Summer Olympics,2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics,2008 Summer Olympics,2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Gold medal,Silver medal
- Carolina Ruiz Castillo is an alpine skier.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 10-14-1981
- Place Of Birth: Osorno,Chile,Earth,Latin America,South America
- Olympic Sport: Alpine skiing
- Nationality: Spain
- Weight: 66.0
- Olympic Games Participant: 2002 Winter Olympics,2006 Winter Olympics,2010 Winter Olympics
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Sergi Escobar
Men's Track cycling, Individual PursuitSergi Escobar Roure (born 22 September 1974 in Lleida) is a Spanish world champion track cyclist who specialises in individual and team pursuit.- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 09-22-1974
- Place Of Birth: Lleida,Spain,Catalonia,Lleida,Earth
- Olympic Sport: Cycling
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's Individual Pursuit
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Bronze medal
- 52José Antonio Hermida Ramos (born on August 24, 1978 in Puigcerdà, Girona) is a Spanish cyclist of Galician origin specializing in competitive mountain biking. He won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece after having finished in fourth place in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- Olympic Country: Spain
- Date Of Birth: 1978
- Place Of Birth: Puigcerdà,Spain,Earth,Europe,European Union
- Olympic Sport: Mountain biking
- Nationality: Spain
- Olympic Medalist Event Competition: Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's cross-country,Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Men's cross-country
- Olympic Medalist Games: 2004 Summer Olympics,2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Games Participant: 2004 Summer Olympics,2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal
