MARTIN Alvaro

Olympic Games

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	22nd (1:22:11)
2012	London, GBR	DNF

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	10000m Walk
2010	Singapore, SIN	9th (47:04.10)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2019	Doha, QAT	22nd (1:33:20)
2017	London, GBR	8th (1:19:41)
2015	Beijing, CHN	16th (1:22:04)
2013	Moscow, RUS	23rd (1:25:12)

European Championships

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2018	Berlin, GER	1st (1:20:42)

World Race Walking Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2018	20km Race Walk	European Championships	Berlin, GER	1:20:42
1	2017	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	A Corunya, ESP	1:19:57
2	2018	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	Rio Maior, POR	1:22:00
3	2021	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	A Corunya, ESP	1:19:59
5	2019	20km Race Walk	European Race Walking Team Championships	Alytus, LTU	1:20:59
6	2018	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	A Corunya, ESP	1:20:46
8	2018	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Team Championships	Taicang, CHN	1:23:22
8	2017	20km Race Walk	World Athletics Championships	London, GBR	1:19:41
8	2017	20km Race Walk	Monterrey	Monterrey, MEX	1:28:17
13	2019	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	Rio Maior, POR	1:23:40

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete, Student

Political Science - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Spanish

CA Perceiana Extremadura [Spain]

Jose Antonio Carrillo [national], ESP

His older sister Macarena Martin has competed in race walking at national level in Spain. (marca.es, 21 Mar 2012; worldathletics.org, 17 Nov 2019)

2012 for Spain (rfea.es, 13 Dec 2015)

He underwent surgery on his left knee in January 2019 and returned to training several weeks later. (mundodeportivo.com, 16 Mar 2019)

He took up athletics at age nine, and started race walking at age 13. (marca.es, 21 Mar 2012; extremaduradehoy.com, 19 Mar 2012)

He began the sport after coach Juan Mendez visited his school. "Thanks to him I started running, but at age 13 a knee injury made me take up race walking." (marca.es, 21 Mar 2012; extremaduradehoy.com, 19 Mar 2012)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (europapress.es, 07 Oct 2020)

Winning gold in the 20km race walk at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. (as.com, 11 Aug 2018)

Spanish race walkers Miguel Angel Lopez, Jesus Angel Garcia, Maria Vasco and Beatriz Pascual. (marca.es, 21 Mar 2012; cmdsport.com, 26 Jan 2016; Instagram profile, 17 Jan 2016)

He was named Spanish Athlete of the Year for 2018 by the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. (mundodeportivo.com, 16 Mar 2019)