Iván Pérez (water polo)
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Full name | Iván Ernesto Pérez Vargas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | June 29, 1971 Havana, Cuba | (age 52)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iván Ernesto Pérez Vargas (born June 29, 1971 in Havana) is a water polo player from Spain. He was born in Cuba, but became a Spanish citizen. He was a member of the national team that finished in sixth place at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
In 2003 Pérez, a player from CN Barcelona, ended up in fifth place with the national side at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in his home town of Barcelona. He twice won the world title with Spain, at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia and at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Havana
- Cuban male water polo players
- Cuban emigrants to Spain
- Spanish male water polo players
- Olympic water polo players of Cuba
- Olympic water polo players of Spain
- Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
- Spanish water polo biography stubs
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games