Pablo Herrera Allepuz

Pablo Herrera
portrait
birthday	June 29, 1982
place of birth	Castellón de la Plana , Spain
partner	2001–2002 Raúl Mesa 2003–2004 Javier Bosma 2004–2008 Raul Mesa since 2009 Adrián Gavira Collado0
successes
2001 - U21 Vice World Champion 2002 - U21 World Champion 2004 - FIVB Tournament in Lianyungang 2004 - Silver medal Olympic Games 2004 - U23 European Champion 2005 - European Champion 2008 - FIVB Tournament in Kristiansand 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 - Grand Slam Moscow 2016 - 9th Olympic Games 2017 - 5th World Championship 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
(As of February 22, 2018)

Pablo Herrera Allepuz (born June 29, 1982 in Castellón de la Plana , Spain ) is a Spanish beach volleyball player and silver medalist at the Olympic Games.

Career

At the age of 19, Pablo Herrera and Raúl Mesa played their first tournament on the FIVB World Tour , but could not win a single game at this and the two subsequent events. The two Spaniards were more successful at the U21 World Championships. First they reached second place in 2001 in Le Lavandou , a year later they became world champions in Catania .

In 2003 Javier Bosma and Herrera started the world tour together. The best result was a ninth place on Mallorca. In the same year, the athlete from Castellón had a serious car accident and was in a coma for three days. It was unclear whether the Spaniard could ever play sports at a high level again. Even so, the following year turned out to be his most successful of the first decade of his career. Herrera and Bosma first won the final at the Italian Open of the European Championship Tour against Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann . A week later they defeated the reigning world champions Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos in the final of the Olympic Garden Open in Lianyungang . At the Olympic Games in Athens , the two Spaniards defeated both the Swiss Laciga brothers Martin and Paul and the Austrian pairs Berger / Gosch and Nowotny / Gartmayer in the group games . In the last sixteen Herrera and Bosma prevailed against the Swedes Björn Berg and Simon Dahl, in the following round they eliminated the Canadians John Child and Mark Heese. In the semifinals, the Australians Julien Prosser and Mark Williams were defeated. The triumphant advance of Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera, who won the U23 European Championship with his youth partner Raul Mesa in the same year, did not end until the final against Emanuel / Santos. With him, Herrera was also the adult continental champion in Moscow in 2005 after victories over the Germans Christoph Dieckmann / Andreas Scheuerpflug in the semi-finals and the Swiss Patrick Heuscher / Stefan Kobel in the final. In the following two years, the Spanish beach volleyball players achieved fourth place in the world series in Roseto degli Abruzzi , fifth places in Klagenfurt and Paris, and ninth place at the world championships in Gstaad . In 2008 Mesa and Herrera won the bronze medal in Berlin and the gold medal in Kristiansand.

In 2009 the athlete from Castellón de la Plana started with Adrián Gavira Collado . The two took second places in Marseille and The Hague and came third in Gstaad, Stare Jablonki and Sanya. In Stavanger, Herrera and his partner achieved their best placement at a world championship to date . The two finished fifth. 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 occupied Herrara and Gavira ninth place in Shanghai they were before Fifth in Rome won as third parties their first medal of the year. 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, Pablo Herrera and Adrián Gavira finished ninth each, 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 seventh place in Prague , Herrera / Gavira failed in the quarter-finals at the last event before the World Cup in the Chinese capital against the Swiss Bellaguarda / Heuscher and came fifth. At the World Cup in Rome , they finished fifth again.

Web links

• Player Bios at FIVB
• Pablo Herrera Allepuz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• GAVIRA Collado / HERRERA (ESP) in Klagenfurt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=2077&Page=3
3. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=2077&Page=4