Lorea Ibarzabal

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Lorea Ibarzabal
Personal information
Full nameLorea Ibarzabal Padorno
Born (1994-11-07) 7 November 1994 (age 29)
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
Country Spain
Sport Athletics
Event 800 metres
ClubAtlético San Sebastian
Achievements and titles
Personal bests

Lorea Ibarzabal Padorno (born 7 November 1994) is a Spanish middle-distance runner. She finished fourth in the 800 metres at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.

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Ibarzabal has won multiple Spanish national titles (800 m indoors and outdoors).

Career

In February 2021, after she overcame a significant injury, 26-year-old Lorea Ibarzabal won her first national title, with a victory in the 800 metres at the Spanish Indoor Championships. [1]

In February 2023, she ran the second-fastest time by a Spanish woman ever in the indoor 800 m, clocking 2:01.00 in Metz. [2] The same month, she claimed national indoor 800 m title for the second time. [3] In March, the 28-year-old competed in the event at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul. It was the Ibarzabal's first major competition representing Spain, and she said that the semi-final was additionally emotional for her as she was competing on the birthday of her running partner Bea, who had died four months earlier. [4] In the final she came within 0.02 s of bronze medal, but ran a personal best of 2:00.87 to finish fourth. [5]

In July 2023, she broke two minutes for the 800m, running 1:59.88 in Madrid. [6]

She competed for Spain at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres. She ran an indoors personal best in her qualifying heat with a time of 2:00.56. [7] She competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024. [8] She was officially selected for th She competed in the 800 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [9] [10]

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
Representing Flag of Spain.svg Spain
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 4th800 m i 2:00.87
European Games Chorzów, Poland 9th800 m 2:00.86
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 55th (h)800 m 2:06.33
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 11th (sf)800 m i 2:00.73
European Championships Rome, Italy 12th (h)800 m 2:01.15
Olympic Games Paris, France 6th (rep)800 m 1:59.81

Personal life

Ibarzabal was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria but is now based in Madrid and trains in Valladolid. [11] She studied engineering at the University of Southern California. [1] Her father, Daniel Ibarzabal, is from Zumarraga in Gipuzkoa province of the Basque country. Her mother, Patricia Padorno, was a middle-distance runner in the 1980s. [1] Her maternal grandfather is a Spanish poet Manuel Padorno. [12]

National titles

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References

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  3. ↑ Hidalgo, Santiago (26 February 2023). "Una relación idílica de 800 metros con Valladolid" . El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Adrián Ben y Lorea Ibarzabal son finalistas del 800". Diario AS (in Spanish). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  5. ↑ "Adrián Ben, oro europeo indoor en los 800 metros por tres milésimas!". Marca (in Spanish). 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Smythe, Steve (25 July 2023). "World qualifiers in Europe for Isabelle Boffey and Ami Pipi". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Women's 800m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  8. ↑ "#EspañaAtletismo Road to Roma: Preselección definitiva". Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "Women's 800m Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 5 August 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "Spain's list for athletics at the Paris Olympics". sport.es. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  11. ↑ "Mechaal se apunta al desafío ante Ingebrigtsen en la esperada final de 3.000". La Provincia (in Spanish). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  12. ↑ López, Karel (17 March 2021). "Atletismo: Lorea Ibarzabal: una artista sobre la pista que lleva el arte en la sangre" . El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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