Daniel Plaza
Spanish racewalker
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Born | (1966-07-03) 3 July 1966 (age 58) Barcelona, Spain |
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
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Sport | Race walking |
Club | Valencia CA; Sideco; CEMA Prat; La Seda |
Daniel Plaza Montero (born 3 July 1966) is a Spanish former race walker who competed in the 20 km event at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games.
Career
Plaza won a gold medal in the 20 km walk event at the 1992 Olympic Games in his native Barcelona, becoming the first Spanish track & field athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal.[1]
He also won a silver medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split and bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart.
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1988 | Ibero-American Championships | Ciudad de México, México | 3rd | 20 km | 1:27:23.0 A |
Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 12th | 20 km | 1:21:53 | |
1989 | World Race Walking Cup | L'Hospitalet, Spain | 11th | 20 km | 1:22:09 |
1990 | European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 2nd | 20 km | 1:22:22 |
Ibero-American Championships | Manaus, Brazil | — | 20 km | DQ | |
1991 | World Race Walking Cup | San Jose, United States | 4th | 20 km | 1:21:00 |
1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 1st | 20 km | 1:21:45 |
1993 | World Race Walking Cup | Monterrey, Mexico | 6th | 20 km | 1:24:52 |
World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 3rd | 20 km | 1:23:18 | |
1994 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | — | 20 km | DQ |
1996 | European Race Walking Cup | A Coruña, Spain | 2nd | 20 km | 1:21:47 |
Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 11th | 20 km | 1:22:05 |
Controversy
Plaza was cleared of a nandrolone related drug ban by Spain's Supreme Court in 2006.[2]
References
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- 1956:
Leonid Spirin (URS)
- 1960:
Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)
- 1964:
Ken Matthews (GBR)
- 1968:
Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)
- 1972:
Peter Frenkel (GDR)
- 1976:
Daniel Bautista (MEX)
- 1980:
Maurizio Damilano (ITA)
- 1984:
Ernesto Canto (MEX)
- 1988:
Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)
- 1992:
Daniel Plaza (ESP)
- 1996:
Jefferson Pérez (ECU)
- 2000:
Robert Korzeniowski (POL)
- 2004:
Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)
- 2008:
Valeriy Borchin (RUS)
- 2012:
Chen Ding (CHN)
- 2016:
Wang Zhen (CHN)
- 2020:
Massimo Stano (ITA)
- 2024:
Brian Pintado (ECU)
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