Daniel Plaza
Spanish racewalker
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Born | (1966-07-03) 3 July 1966 (age 57) Barcelona, Spain |
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
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Sport | Race walking |
Club | Valencia CA; Sideco; CEMA Prat; La Seda |
Daniel Plaza Montero (born 3 July 1966) is a Spanish former race walker who competed in the 20 km event at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1992 in his native Barcelona, becoming the first Spanish track & field athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal.[1]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1988 | Ibero-American Championships | Ciudad de México, México | 3rd | 20 km | 1:27:23.0 A |
Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 12th | 20 km | 1:21:53 | |
1989 | World Race Walking Cup | L'Hospitalet, Spain | 11th | 20 km | 1:22:09 |
1990 | European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 2nd | 20 km | 1:22:22 |
Ibero-American Championships | Manaus, Brazil | — | 20 km | DQ | |
1991 | World Race Walking Cup | San Jose, United States | 4th | 20 km | 1:21:00 |
1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 1st | 20 km | 1:21:45 |
1993 | World Race Walking Cup | Monterrey, Mexico | 6th | 20 km | 1:24:52 |
World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 3rd | 20 km | 1:23:18 | |
1994 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | — | 20 km | DQ |
1996 | European Race Walking Cup | A Coruña, Spain | 2nd | 20 km | 1:21:47 |
Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 11th | 20 km | 1:22:05 |
Overturned drugs ban
In 2006 Plaza was cleared of a Nandrolone related drug ban by Spain's Supreme Court[2][3]
References
- ^ Daniel Plaza. sports-reference.com. Retrieved 26 January 2014
- ^ Plaza overturns 10-year-old ban. BBC Sport (10 July 2006). Retrieved 26 January 2014
- ^ Matthew Moore (30 September 2010). Sporting drugs test failures: eight most unusual explanations, from veal to Vicks inhalers. The Telegraph Retrieved 26 January 2014
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- 1956: Leonid Spirin (URS)
- 1960: Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)
- 1964: Ken Matthews (GBR)
- 1968: Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)
- 1972: Peter Frenkel (GDR)
- 1976: Daniel Bautista (MEX)
- 1980: Maurizio Damilano (ITA)
- 1984: Ernesto Canto (MEX)
- 1988: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)
- 1992: Daniel Plaza (ESP)
- 1996: Jefferson Pérez (ECU)
- 2000: Robert Korzeniowski (POL)
- 2004: Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)
- 2008: Valeriy Borchin (RUS)
- 2012: Chen Ding (CHN)
- 2016: Wang Zhen (CHN)
- 2020: Massimo Stano (ITA)
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