Salvador Gómez (water polo)
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Full name | Salvador E. Gómez Agüero | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 11 March 1968 Santander, Spain | (age 56)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Salvador E. Gómez Agüero (born 11 March 1968 in Santander, Cantabria) is a former water polo player from Spain. He was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics, he was on the squad that captured the silver medal. Gómez, nicknamed Chava, competed in five Summer Olympics from 1988 to 2004. He is among four Spanish water polo players, all in the 1992 and 1996 medal winning teams, to have competed at five Olympics – the others are Manuel Estiarte, Chiqui Sans and Jesús Rollán.
He made his debut for the national side at the 1987 European Championships in Strasbourg. With the Spanish national team he also won the world title twice, in Perth 1998 and Fukuoka 2001.
See also
[edit]- Spain men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
- List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments
- List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of men's Olympic water polo tournament top goalscorers
- List of world champions in men's water polo
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Santander, Spain
- Spanish male water polo players
- Water polo centre backs
- Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Spain in water polo
- Olympic silver medalists for Spain in water polo
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
- European Water Polo Championship medalists
- 20th-century Spanish sportsmen
- Spanish Olympic medalist stubs
- Spanish water polo biography stubs