Sabadell is a city and municipality in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the comarca of Vallès Occidental, where it is one of the two capitals, the other being Terrassa. It is located on the River Ripoll, 20 km (12 mi) north of Barcelona, 190 m (620 ft) above sea level.
Matías Enrique Paredes is an Argentine field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Ducilo and the Argentine national team.
Nina Aleksandrovna Zhivanevskaya is a 5-time Olympic backstroke swimmer from Russia, who has swum for Spain since 1999, following her marriage to a Spaniard.
Carmen Valero Omedes was a Spanish middle-distance runner, who was best known for representing her native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Although eliminated in the heats of the 800 and the 1500 metres, Valero was the only woman in the Spanish track and field squad for the Montreal Games, and became the first female athlete to ever represent the country in those sports at the Summer Olympic Games.
Olaf Heukrodt is a German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
Meindert Klem is a rower from the Netherlands.
Wildeboer is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aschwin Wildeboer Faber, known as Aschwin Wildeboer, is a Spanish Olympic backstroke swimmer of Dutch origin.
Olaf Kardolus is a Dutch fencer. He competed in the team épée event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Javier Núñez Molano is a Spanish butterfly and medley swimmer who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was born in Sabadell, Barcelona.
Claudia Dasca Romeu, also known as Claudia Dasca, is a Spanish swimmer who competes in the Women's 400m individual medley. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she finished 25th overall in the heats in the Women's 400 metre individual medley and failed to reach the final.
Matilde Ortiz Reyes is a Spanish water polo player of Mexican descent. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal competing for the Spain women's national water polo team in the women's event. She also competed for Spain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is 5 ft 8.5 inches tall. She plays for the Spanish club CN Sabadell, and is studying journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Park Hyung-Joo is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Park qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke, as South Korea's youngest male swimmer, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:00.53 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympian and European short course champion Aschwin Wildeboer Faber of Spain. Park edged out Ukraine's Oleksandr Isakov to take the seventh spot by 0.28 of a second in 2:01.50. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the preliminary heats.
Emma Bosch Castell was a Spanish former alpine skier who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics. She retired from alpine skiing in February 1994 due to a knee injury sustained two years before. On 26 March 1994 in the morning, Bosch had an epileptic seizure at her home in Sabadell, which resulted in a head injury of which she died the same day.
Faber is the Latin word for "smith". Like a few other Latin occupational names, it was adopted as a surname in the Low Countries and Germany. It is also common in England, perhaps due to Norman French influence. Notable people with the surname include:
Antonios Gioulbas is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Gioulbas qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, representing the host nation Greece. He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.35 from a test event at the Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including top medal favorite Tomomi Morita of Japan. He touched out Spain's Aschwin Wildeboer to take a seventh spot by 0.03 of a second in 2:04.30. Gioulbas failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.
Eirini Karastergiou is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She previously held two Greek records in both 100 and 200 m backstroke, until they were all broken each by Aspasia Petradaki and Stella Boumi in 2009.
Bertus "Bert" Sitters was a Dutch swimmer and swimming coach. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 200 m butterfly and at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the 100 m freestyle and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, but failed to reach finals in all events.
Gustavo Marcos Herrero is a Spanish male water polo player in the late '90s and early '00s. He was a member of the Spain men's national water polo team, playing as a centre back. He was a part of the team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. On club level he played for CN Sabadell in Spain.
Catharina Hendrica "Sabrina" van der Sloot is a Dutch water polo player for CN Sabadell and the Dutch national team.
Spain (pre-2006) 
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