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 Gavira at the 2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Adrián Gavira Collado | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1987-09-17) 17 September 1987 (age 37) San Roque, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Adrián Gavira Collado (born 17 September 1987 in San Roque) is a Spanish beach volleyball player. He currently plays with Pablo Herrera. The pair participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics tournament and lost in the round of 16 to Brazilians Ricardo Santos and Pedro Cunha.
In 2016, the Gavira and Herrera partnership won one gold and one bronze on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. At the 2016 Olympics, they qualified from the pool stages, but were drawn against the Brazilian team of Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt in the round of 16. The Brazilians were the number one seeds and World Champions going into the match, and beat the Spanish pair despite a tight first set.
Notes
- In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gavira and the second or maternal family name is Collado.
References
- "Adrian Gavira Collado". London 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013.
- "MEN – MATCH SCHEDULE/RESULTS". Fédération Internationale de Volleyball. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "News - Herrera aiming for another Olympic-sized result". rio2016.fivb.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- "News - Alison & Bruno survive scare to advance to Beach quarter-finals". rio2016.fivb.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
External links
- Adrián Gavira at FIVB.com
- Adrián Gavira at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Adrián Gavira at Olympedia (archive)
- Adrián Gavira at Olympics.com
- Adrián Gavira at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) (archive)
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Preceded by Igor Kolodinsky (RUS)
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Men's FIVB Beach World Tour "Top Rookie" 2008 |
Succeeded by Ruslans Sorokins (LAT)
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- Living people
- Spanish beach volleyball players
- Men's beach volleyball players
- Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic beach volleyball players for Spain
- Beach volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Spanish volleyball biography stubs