Do you know all the feats of Spanish athletics? In the book ‘History of Spain Athletics’

The day has come. This Tuesday, June 17, it appeared at the headquarters of Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) The book History of Spain’s athleticsThe history of the Spanish Athletics National Team, conducted by the Spanish Association of Athletics Statistics and published by La Rfea. It is of two volumes with more than 1,700 pages In total, in that all the actions of the Spanish athletes were reported and detailed Dressing the colors of the national shirt of the last 105 years. The task is available to all of those in Digital format, free and free.

The gesture is led by José María OdriozolaFormer President of RFEA. In addition to Odriozola, he took the floor José Javier EstayoPresident of the Spanish Association of Athletics Statistics (AEEA), showing the work to those present. Next, next, Ruth beitia and Manuel Martíneznumber Athletes with the highest number of internationalities in SpainThey associate their passage of choice and told the anecdotes of their participation. Finally, Miguel VillaseñorMember of the AEEA and Project Coordinator, explained the details of this project that have finally reached.

The European European Championship (of selections), held next week in Madrid, has been the perfect reason or pretext For RFEA to ride this project. In 1999, on the occasion of the World Cup in Seville, the book was published History of World Cups and Spanish athletics, The job that is not satisfied at all and does not finish the filling of the hole; The history of Spain’s athletes is not said and detailed if it is appropriate And as it has done in other aspects of our athletes, such as ranks, records or record history, and the European team is the perfect occasion to do so.

This is the fine occasion because This competition is the paradigmatic competition of what is the spirit of Athletics of Spain.

The purpose of this project by the Spanish Association of Athletics Statistics has been simple but, at the same time, very much: Rescue, say and detail the history of Spain’s athletes from 1920 to 2024, that is, all presentations of men and women who dressed a national shirt in games, championships, cups or international meetings, including their names and surnames, their scores, their positions and dates and places of their performances. And either external competitions, on the covered track or Short trackIn the field by, on the route, marching or mountain operation competitions and trails. And not just all the data is provided, but for every year there is a detailed story of our internationals.

The book ‘SPAIN ATHLETICS’ HISTORY ‘

105 years of Spain’s athlete history

The history of National Athletics as an option began a week, in the morning, about 11.30. Ay 105 years ago, on August 15, 1920; In that morning a Spanish athlete first represents Spain, the Spanish team. He was Guipuzcoan and threw a wild boar. It is in Antwerp (Belgium) in the course of the Olympic Games. The athlete was called IGNACIO IZAGUIRRE. From then and until the closure of this project, until December 31, 2024, 2,368 athletes, 1,624 men and 744 women dressed in a full national shirt. The latter, up to that date, became Segoviana Idaira Prieto and the Extremadura Carla Arce to the last European of Cross In Türkiye. And many other thousands of athletes have been made in the categories of Sub23/Promise, Sub20/Junior and Sub18/Youth; A large number of them have never managed to dedicate to the full category. The women, unfortunately, joined later, 44 years later, also outside Spain, at the José Alvalade de Lisbon Stadium, one Saturday afternoon in September 1964 at the first meeting of the Spanish women’s team against Portugal.

2025, year of feats for spain’s athletics

The wheel does not stop the suction. Since January 1, This 2025 So far the rest 17 Athletes joined the Fully International Club. And next weekIn the last week of June On the European teamlOr Manuel Bea, Paula Rodríguez, David González, Ona Bonet, Juan Luis Bravo, Jorge Hernández and Jaime Sancho. The story of Athletics of Spain This is not just history, it is also there, because it continues to write the moon -duration, weeks and days.

Work credits and the importance of its index

Those who set this work of the Spanish Association of Athletics statistics are Francisco Ascorbe, ángel Cruz, José Javier Estayo, José García Grosocordón, José Luis Hernández, Ignacio Manilla and, as a project coordinator, Miguel Villaseñor. As editor and macker, architect of obtaining documentation and responsible for the photographic part, José Luis Hernández’s work is always amazing and praiseworthy; His efforts became capital. José Javier Estayo, ángel Cruz and Ignacio Mansilla reported in a detailed and brilliant way of what happened year -long. Francisco Ascorbe is the athlete’s index architect, the main piece of the project. José García Grosocordón actively cooperated with the history of Spain’s athletes in non -ABSOLUTE categories. Miguel Villaseñor has coordinated the project, in addition to writing the introduction, the brief history of the Spanish team and doing the constant curious variety. The spirit of the project has been detailed and counts all that knows.

Order Athlete index. Ay Key PieceSince one of the project’s corners of the project is Learn the exact number of internationalities of each athleteBecause summaries and lists of full international ones are common where the numbers do not match. Francisco Ascorbe has become an index architect. Data not available to this day.

History is raising in the fall

Finally, declare that In the fall, the third part of this project, exclusively digital, will see, where all the actions of non -international international will be detailed, That is to say, of sub23/promise categories, sub20/junior and sub18/youth. Participation and results in university university competitions will also be detailed, as well as historical or significant competitions for the history of Spain’s athletics: Fisec and Ficep games, gymnastics and fees. This third volume is a huge tailor drawer, with information from Spanish athletes representing Europe, female meetings of Spain against foreign clubs, meetings between different Spanish teams, results of the combined Spain relay, military competitions or history competitions such as the Olympiad Olympiad of 1937 or 1942 the 1942 youth games. This third volume is José García Grosocordón’s contribution.