Adrián Gavira
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 Gavira at the 2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Adrián Gavira Collado | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 17, 1987 La Línea de la Concepción, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Adrián Gavira Collado (born 17 September 1987 in La Línea de la Concepción) is a Spanish male beach volleyball player.[1] He currently plays with Pablo Herrera. The pair participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics tournament and lost in the round of 16 to Brazilians Ricardo Santos and Pedro Cunha.[2]
In 2016, the Gavira and Herrera partnership won one gold and one bronze on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.[3] At the 2016 Olympics, they qualified from the pool stages, but were drawn against the Brazilian team of Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt in the round of 16.[3] The Brazilians were the number one seeds and World Champions going into the match, and beat the Spanish pair despite a tight first set.[4]
References
- ^ "Adrian Gavira Collado". London 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-04-02.
- ^ "MEN – MATCH SCHEDULE/RESULTS". Fédération Internationale de Volleyball. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ a b "News - Herrera aiming for another Olympic-sized result". rio2016.fivb.com. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
- ^ "News - Alison & Bruno survive scare to advance to Beach quarter-finals". rio2016.fivb.com. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
External links
- Adrián Gavira Collado at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Adrian Gavira Collado at Olympics.com
- Adrián Gavira at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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