Fernando Climent Huerta

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Fernando Climent Huerta (born July 26, 1958 in Coria del Río ) is a former Spanish rower . In 1984 he won an Olympic silver medal with Luis María Lasúrtegui , the first and only Olympic medal for Spanish rowers. (Status 2019) In 1979 and 1993 he won world championships.

Athletic career

The 1.79 m tall Fernando Climent took seventh place with eighth at the 1976 Junior World Championships . The following year he entered the 1977 World Championships in Amsterdam with the lightweight eighth and won the silver medal behind the boat from the United Kingdom. Two years later, the Spanish lightweight eight won the title at the 1979 World Championships in Bled. At the three following World Championships he received bronze with the lightweight eighth: 1980 in Mechelen behind the United Kingdom and France, 1981 in Munich behind Denmark and Italy and in 1982 in Lucerne behind Italy and Denmark.

Lightweight rowing was not included in the Olympic program until 1996. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Fernando Climent and Luis María Lasúrtegui competed in two without a helmsman . In the run-up, the Spaniards took second place behind Thomas Möllenkamp and Axel Wöstmann from the Federal Republic of Germany. The Spaniards also rowed into second place in the semifinals when they finished just behind the Romanians Petru Iosub and Valer Toma . In the final, the two Romanians had three seconds ahead of the Spaniards, who in turn crossed the finish line three seconds ahead of the Norwegians Hans Magnus Grepperud and Sverre Løken .

The following year the World Championships took place in Mechelen, the two Spaniards won the bronze medal behind the boat from the Soviet Union and the British. In 1986 in Nottingham , the two Spaniards finished ninth, in 1987 in Copenhagen they were twelfth. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, the two were eliminated in the repechage.

At the 1989 World Championships in Bled, Climent rowed together with José María de Marco Pérez in the lightweight double scull and won the silver medal behind the Austrians Christoph Schmölzer and Walter Rantasa , followed by fifth place at the 1990 World Championships . In 1991 at the World Championships in Vienna, Climent competed with the lightweight four-man without a helmsman , who won bronze behind the British and the Italians in the line-up of Juan Luis Aguirre Barco , Fernando Climent, José María de Marco Pérez and Fernando Molina Castillo . In 1992 the Olympic Games took place in Spain for the first time. At the Olympic Regatta in Banyoles, the four-man lightweight competed against the heavyweights in the previous year's line-up and finished in ninth place after the Spaniards had even won their preliminary run. Two weeks after the Olympic Games, the world championships in the non-Olympic boat classes took place in Montreal , the Spanish lightweight four without a helmsman took fourth place.

In 1993 Fernando Climent and Fernando Molina Castillo competed in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman . At the 1993 World Championships in Račice u Štětí they won ahead of the Russian boat. In 1994 in Indianapolis , the two finished seventh. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, lightweight rowing was added to the program with three disciplines. Spain competed in Atlanta in all three lightweight boat classes. In the lightweight four without a helmsman, Fernando Climent, now 37, rowed together with 19-year-old David Morales and 21-year-old Juan Manuel Florido and Alfredo Girón . The Spaniards took 14th place.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1014f
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 504
  3. ^ Spanish rowing team 1996 at Sports-Reference
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 838
personal data
SURNAME Climent Huerta, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Coria del Río