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| Born | 17 May 2007 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m: 6.96 (2025) 100m: 10.28 (2025) 200m: 20.74 (2025) NU20R | ||||||||||||||
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Ander Garaiar (born 17 May 2007) is a Spanish sprinter. He became the European under-20 champion over 100 metres in 2025 and is the Basque record holder over 100 and 200 metres. [1]
He was born in Oiartzun in the province of Gipuzkoa. He would train as a youngster on the bike lanes around the Peñas de Aya along The Arditurri greenway. [2] He was later coached by Valentín Rocandio. [3]
On his eighteenth birthday in May 2025 he improved his personal best time in the 200 metres by more than a second, and set a new Basque Under-20 record of 21.22 seconds. Later that month he broke the Spanish U-20 records in the 100 and 200 metres in the same week, running 20.74 for the 200m to better Daniel González mark of 20.78 seconds from 2023 and 10.29 seconds in the 100 metres to improve Sergio López Barranco's record from 2018. Both times were also absolute Basque records. [4] He was then a member of the Spanish men’s 4 x 100 metres relay team that set a new national under-20 record in Salamanca (39.27), for his third national record in twelves days. [5] He later posted a new 100 metres personal best of 10.28 seconds (-0.2) in winning the Spanish under-20 title in July 2025. [6]
He won the 100 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, winning in 10.40 (-0.7m/s) to finish ahead of Dutchman Jozuah Revierre and Great Britain's Teddy Wilson who could not be separated in second. [7] [8] His win as an eighteen year-old was the first gold medal for Spain in the 100 metres dash at a continental championship. [9]
