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1. Famous Spanish people
in the sports
By Mario García.

2.  Born in Manacor on june 3 , 1986 ,
know as Rafa Nadal.
 Winner of 10 Grand Slam titles :
Roland Garros tournament in 6
edicions , Wimbeldonchampinship
on 2 occasions , where he was
finalist.
 It also achieved a gold medal at
the Bejing 2008 Olympic Games It
is the player with more than 1000
Masters titles by beating Roger
Federer illustrious athlethes. In
2010 he became the only player in
history to win the Slam Clay.
 At the age of 15 became the
youngest player ever to win a
match in a tournament official ATP.
Famous Spanish people in the
sports

3.  Pau Gasol i Sáez (Catalan
pronunciation: [ˈpaw ɡəˈzɔɫ]) (born July
6, 1980) is
a Spanish professional basketball player for
the Los Angeles Lakers of the National
Basketball Association (NBA). He was born
to Marisa Sáez and Agustí Gasol, and he
spent his childhood in Spain. Gasol was
drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2001
NBA Draft, but his rights were traded to
the Memphis Grizzlies, with whom he won
the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He
currently holds the Memphis
Grizzlies franchise records for career games
played, minutes played, field goals made
and attempted, free throws made and
attempted, offensive, defensive, and total
rebounds, blocked shots, turnovers, and
points.[1] After seven seasons with the
team, Gasol was traded to the Lakerson
February 1, 2008. His younger
brother, Marc Gasol, who was involved in
that trade, is also a professional basketball
player for the Memphis Grizzlies of
the NBA.
Famous Spanish people in the
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4.  Alberto Contador Velasco (Spanish
pronunciation: [alˈβerto kontaˈðor βeˈlasko]; born
6 December 1982) is a Spanish professional road
bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Team
Saxo Bank. He was the winner of the 2007 Tour de
France with the Discovery Channel team. With the
Astana team he has won the 2008 Giro d'Italia,
the 2008 Vuelta a España and the 2009 Tour de
France. He initially also won the 2010 Tour de
France with this team, and the 2011 Giro d'Italia with
team Saxo Bank-SunGard, only to be stripped from
these titles later.[2] He is the fifth racer in history, and
the first Spaniard, to win all three Grand Tours of road
cycling.
 Contador is widely considered to be the best climbing
specialist and stage racer in the world.[3][4] Notable
summit stage finishes on which he has victories include
the Alto de El Angliru in the Vuelta, the Plateau de
Beille in the Tour and Mount Etna in the Giro.[5]After
being widely expected to lose his tenuous lead in the
2007 Tour de France in that race's final individual time
trial,[6][7] Contador has become a more accomplished
time trialist, with several victories in the discipline. He
has earned a reputation as an all-rounder, a cyclist
who excels in all aspects of stage racing which are
needed for high places in the general classification.
Famous Spanish people in the
sports

5.  Synchronized swimming
 Gemma Mengual had thirty medals, but there was
something incomplete in thecurriculum of
Star: Olympic success. Already been
achieved. The athlete who discovered the Spanish
people in the pool can do more than swim was
facing his last chance at glory in the
Games and has taken in a masterly way by
hangingtwo silver medals.
The Catalan, who will retire after the World Rome
2009, made his first steps at nine years,
influenced by a cousin who
spent the summers and in 1992, when
Barcelona was at boiling Olympic team entered
the national .
She has been and is the pioneer of a mode in
which Spain is now a world power.In the
past European Eindhoven, the selection coached
by Anna Tarrés won gold in team, combo,
only (Mengual, in his first single) and duo. All he
needed was an Olympic success. He has won two.

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6.  Gervasio Deferr belongs to
that special breed
of athletes, the more it tightens
its grip on the competition,
the juice taken out
of themselves.
 The gymnast ever has
managed to make their best
moments coincide with the
major Olympic events.
 Two golds in Sydney 2000 and
Athens 2004 and Beijing
2008 silver adorn your living
room
 . All he needed was an Olympic
success. He has won two.
Famous Spanish people in the
sports

7.  Marta Domínguez Azpeleta (born 3 November 1975) is
a Spanish runner.
 Dominguez currently competes mainly in 3000 m
steeplechase, a distance in which she was the 2009 world
champion. She has represented Spain three times at
the Summer Olympics and has competed at the World
Championships on six occasions.
 Marta Domínguez had her first successes over 5000 metres:
she won the bronze at the 1998 European Athletics
Championships and reached the global podium at the 2001
World Championships in Athletics, winning the silver medal.
She scored a gold medal double in 2002 by taking a 3000
metres win at the European Athletics Indoor Championships,
before going on to become European champion at the 2002
European Championships. She achieved silver medals in the
same events at the IAAF World Indoor
Championships and2003 World Championships in
Athletics the following year. She retained her European crown
at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.
 From 2007 onwards she began to experiment with other
events and she won the senior race at the 2007 European
Cross Country Championships in Toro, Spain. Domínguez
switched to the steeplechase in 2008 and ran in the inaugural
Olympic race at the 2008 Beijing Games, although she failed
to finish. The 2009 World Championships in Athletics saw a
reversal of fortunes as she won the gold medal, and she then
took European silver in the event in 2010. As the defending
world champion, she was given a free entry into the 2011
World Championships in Athletics but had to decline due to
her pregnancy.
 In December 2010, Dominguez was arrested for her
connection in a doping ring as part of Operación Galgo.[2]
 In April 2011, Dominguez was acquitted of these charges
when it was found the substances were not illegal
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