Ian Tarrafeta

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Ian Tarrafeta
Personal information
Full name Ian Tarrafeta Serrano
Born (1999-01-04) 4 January 1999 (age 26)
Sabadell, Spain
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current club Pays d'Aix UC
Number 28
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2017–2020
BM Granollers
2020–2025
Pays d'Aix UC
2025–
HBC Nantes
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–
Spain 61 (140)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Poland/Sweden
European Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Hungary/Slovakia
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Oran Team
Youth World Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Georgia
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 13 January 2025

Ian Tarrafeta Serrano [1] [a] (born 4 January 1999) is a Spanish handball player who plays for Pays d'Aix UC and the Spanish national team.

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Club career

Tarrafeta comes from Sabadell, a suburb of Barcelona. He made his debut in the EHF Cup and in the highest Spanish league, the Liga ASOBAL, with BM Granollers in the 2016/17 season. The playmaker signed his first professional contract for the 2017/18 season. With Granollers, he subsequently qualified for the European Cup by finishing third, fifth and sixth in the league. In the 2020/21 season, he began playing in France for Pays d'Aix UC in the Starligue. With a fourth and a third place in the French championship, he achieved the best placing in the club's history with PAUC. After the 2021/22 season, Tarrafeta was voted the best rookie in the Starligue. [2]

International career

With the Spanish youth national team, in which he made his debut on 8 April 2016, [3] Tarrafeta finished 6th at the 2016 U-18 European Championship, was top scorer with 58 goals and was selected to the All-Star team. [4] Tarrafeta played his first game with the Spanish junior national team on 28 October 2017. [3] He won the silver medal with the selection at the 2017 U-19 World Championship. In nine games he scored 31 goals and was again selected to the All-Star team. [5] [6]

Tarrafeta made his debut for the Spanish senior national team on 23 October 2019 against Poland at the Four Nations Tournament in San Juan, Argentina. [3] At the 2022 European Championship, he scored twelve goals in seven games and won the silver medal with the Iberians. At the 2022 Mediterranean Games, he won the gold medal with Spain. He took part in a World Championship for the first time in January 2023 in Poland and Sweden. [7] In his first game there, he suffered a rib injury. [8] He won the bronze medal with the Spanish selection for the 2023 World Championship.

By January 2024, Tarrafeta had played 42 international matches, in which he scored 93 goals. [3]

Notes

  1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Tarrafetaand the second or maternal family name is Serrano.

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References

  1. "UAB students to participate in the Olympic Games Paris 2024". UAB.cat. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 19 July 2024. There will also be two students in the Olympic Games Paris in the handball team: Ian Tarrafeta Serrano (Political Science and Public Management) and Daniel Fernández Jiménez (Physiotherapy).
  2. "All-Star Team in Frankreich: Luc Steins erneut MVP der Lidl Starligue". www.handball-world.news. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
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  5. "SCORE STANDINGS (COURT PLAYER)" (PDF). ihf.info. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  6. "All-star Team and MVP". Archived from the original on 21 August 2017.
  7. "Los ocho debutantes de España serán nueve". as.com. 15 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  8. "Ian Tarrafeta, baja por una fisura en una costilla". www.rfebm.com. 15 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2023.