Adrián Gavira Collado
Adrián Gavira Collado 
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| Adrian Gavira 2017 in Vienna | |
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| birthday | 17th September 1987 |
| place of birth | La Línea de la Concepción , Spain |
| size | 1.93 m |
| partner | 2005–2008 Francisco Alfredo Marco 2008 Inocencio Lario Carrillo 2008 Raúl Mesa since 2009 Pablo Herrera Allepuz |
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2007 -  U21 Vice World Champion 2007 - U23 Vice European Champion 2008 - FIVB Top Rookie 2009 - 5th World Championship 2009 - 3rd European Championship 2011 - 5th World Championship 2012 - 9th Olympic Games 2013 - 5th World Championship 2013 - European Champion 2014 - 4th European Championship 2015 - Victory Grand Slam Moscow 2016 - 9th Olympic Games 2017 - 5th World Championship   |
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| (As of February 22, 2018) | |
Adrián Gavira Collado (born September 17, 1987 in La Línea de la Concepción , Spain ) is a Spanish beach volleyball player .
Career
In 2005 Adrián Gavira finished fourth at the U20 European Championships together with Francisco Alfredo Marco. The two Spaniards won the silver medal at a Challenger and Satellite tournament in Cyprus the following year and were fifth in the U21 World Championships and fourth in the U23 Continental Championships. In 2007 the two beach volleyball players from the Iberian Peninsula started the FIVB World Tour for the first time and failed in the second qualifying round of the Italian Open. At the next tournament in Marseille they reached the main field, but then lost their first two games. They were more successful at the U21 European Championships in Cyprus by winning the silver medal. In the same year Alejandro Fernandez and Gavira Collado reached the final of the U21 world title bouts. The athlete from Tenerife played the first tournaments of the FIVB Tour with Inocencio Lario Carrillo the following season . Reaching the final in Myslowice was their greatest mutual success. During the last three events of the year Raúl Mesa and Gavira played together, the two finished fifth at the Bahrain Open.
In 2009 Adrián Gavira Collado started with Pablo Herrera Allepuz . The Spaniards took second places in Marseille and The Hague and came third in Gstaad, Stare Jablonki and Sanya. In Stavanger, Gavira and his partner finished fifth at the World Cup . At all eleven World Tour events in which they participated, the athletes from the Iberian Peninsula were in the top ten. They also won two tournaments on the European Beach Tour and the bronze medal at the European Championships in Sochi .
2010
In Brasilia , Gavira and Herrera finished ninth, in Shanghai they were fifth, before winning their first medal of the year in Rome as third. In Myslowice they reached the final, but lost to Rogers and Dalhausser . Then the Spaniards were fourth in Stavanger and Åland , fifth in Moscow and Klagenfurt and seventh in Prague . At three other events, Adrián Gavira and Pablo Herrera each finished ninth, only at the The Hague Open it was not enough to place in the top ten teams.
2011
In the first tournament of the year in the capital of Brazil , the Spaniards finished ninth. In Shanghai they reached the semi-finals, but lost to Rogers / Dalhausser and then to Brink / Reckermann. After finishing seventh in Prague , Gavira / Herrera failed in the quarter-finals at the last event before the World Cup in the Chinese capital against the Swiss Bellaguarda / Heuscher and finished fifth. At the World Cup in Rome , they finished fifth again.
Web links
- Player Bios at FIVB
- GAVIRA Collado / HERRERA (ESP) in Klagenfurt
- Adrián Gavira Collado in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=7783&Page=3
- ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=7783&Page=4
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| SURNAME | Gavira Collado, Adrián |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish beach volleyball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Línea de la Concepción , Spain |