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Lorea Ibarzabal
Spanish athlete (born 1994) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lorea Ibarzabal Padorno (born 7 November 1994) is a Spanish Olympian middle-distance runner. She finished fourth in the 800 metres at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
Ibarzabal has won multiple Spanish national titles (800 m indoors and outdoors).
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In February 2021, after she overcame a significant injury, 26-year-old Lorea Ibarzabal won her first national title, with a victory in the 800 metres at the Spanish Indoor Championships.[1]
In February 2023, she ran the second-fastest time by a Spanish woman ever in the indoor 800 m, clocking 2:01.00 in Metz.[2] The same month, she claimed national indoor 800 m title for the second time.[3] In March, the 28-year-old competed in the event at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul. It was the Ibarzabal's first major competition representing Spain, and she said that the semi-final was additionally emotional for her as she was competing on the birthday of her running partner Bea, who had died four months earlier.[4] In the final she came within 0.02 s of bronze medal, but ran a personal best of 2:00.87 to finish fourth.[5]
In July 2023, she broke two minutes for the 800m, running 1:59.88 in Madrid.[6]
She competed for Spain at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres. She ran an indoors personal best in her qualifying heat with a time of 2:00.56.[7] She competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[8] She was officially selected for the Spanish National Olympic Team. She competed in the 800 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024.[9][10]
International competitions
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Education
Lorea studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. She also holds a master degree in Product Development Engineering from the University of Southern California, a master of science in Biomechanics from the University of Dundee and a third master degree in Big data from the UCAM.
Personal life
Lorea Ibarzabal was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria but is now based in Madrid and trains in Valladolid.[11] [1] Her father, Daniel Ibarzabal, is from Zumarraga in Gipuzkoa province of the Basque country. Her mother, Patricia Padorno, was a middle-distance runner in the 1980s.[1] Her maternal grandfather is the Spanish relevant painter and poet Manuel Padorno.[12]
National titles
- SPANISH Indoor ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- 800 metres: 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
- SPANISH ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- 800 metres: 2023, 2024
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