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This is a partial list of Spanish sportspeople. For the full plain list of Spanish sportspeople on Wikipedia, see Category:Spanish sportspeople. Alpine skiing
All players with 20 or more official caps are listed here. This table is up to date as of 18 November 2024. [1] Bold denotes players still playing professional football. 1964 – member of the 1964 European Nations' Cup winning team. 1992 – member of the 1992 Olympics Gold Medal winning team. 2008 – member of the UEFA Euro 2008 winning team.
Spanish athletes have won a total of 192 medals in 33 different sports as of 2024 and the country currently ranks 25th in the all-time Summer Olympics medal count, with canoeing as the top medal-producing sport and sailing as the top gold medal-producing sport. Five of those medals were won at the Winter Games.
At El Pardo Palace in Madrid, King Felipe and Queen Letizia presented Alcaraz with the 'Rey Felipe' sport award, for best Spanish athlete of the year, during the 2022 National Sports Awards.
She was the first Spanish woman to win a gold medal in swimming at an Olympic Games and is widely considered to be the greatest Spanish swimmer of all time. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she became Olympic champion in the 200-metre butterfly, and also won the bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley.
This is a list of Spanish track and field athletes who participated in the Summer Olympic Games. This category should only be used for Spanish Olympians participating in athletics (sport) . All other Spanish Olympians should be categorized into an appropriate subcategory.
Classification: People: By occupation: Sportspeople by sport: Athletes: By nationality: Spanish Also: Spain : People : By occupation : Sportspeople by sport : Athletes This category is for competitors within the sport of athletics , comprising track and field , road running , cross country running and racewalking .
MALAGA, Spain (AP) — As Rafael Nadal prepared to serve in what turned out to be the last tennis match of his career, a woman's voice broke the silence from the stands: “You make Spain proud!”