HERRERA ALLEPUZ Pablo

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Men	2004	Athens, GRE
9	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
9	Men	2012	London, GBR
9	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2017	Vienna, AUT
5	Men	2013	Stare Jablonki, POL
5	Men	2011	Rome, ITA
5	Men	2009	Stavanger, NOR
9	Men	2007	Gstaad, SUI
17	Men	2019	Hamburg, GER
17	Men	2015	Netherlands
17	Men	2003	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
33	Men	2005	Berlin, GER

European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men	2018	Netherlands
5	Men	2020	Jurmala, LAT
9	Men	2019	Moscow, RUS
17	Men	2017	Jurmala, LAT

World Tour - Tally of rank achieved per season since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	7th	9th	17th	19th-37th
2021	Men	-	-	-	-	-	-	3x	2x	1x
2020	Men	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2019	Men	-	1x	1x	-	5x	-	2x	2x	-
2018	Men	1x	1x	1x	-	3x	-	3x	2x	-
2017	Men	-	1x	-	-	3x	-	4x	1x	-

World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018	Men	Ostrava	Ostrava, CZE
2	2019	Men	Siming	Xiamen, CHN
2	2018	Men	Gstaad	Gstaad, SUI
2	2017	Men	The Hague	The Hague, NED
3	2019	Men	Doha	Doha, QAT
3	2018	Men	Huntington Beach, CA	Huntington Beach, CA, USA
5	2019	Men	World Tour Final	Rome, ITA
5	2019	Men	Vienna Major	Vienna, AUT
5	2019	Men	Ostrava	Ostrava, CZE
5	2019	Men	Jinjiang	Jinjiang, CHN
5	2019	Men	Las Vegas, NV	Las Vegas, NV, USA
5	2018	Men	Moscow	Moscow, RUS
5	2018	Men	Warsaw	Warsaw, POL
5	2018	Men	Fort Lauderdale Major	Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
5	2017	Men	World Tour Final	Hamburg, GER
5	2017	Men	World Championships	Vienna, AUT
5	2017	Men	Moscow	Moscow, RUS

Flaquito del Swing (fivbheroes.com, 16 Jun 2012)

Athlete

Two children.

Catalan, Spanish

Fran Marco [personal], from 2019

He has played indoor volleyball at Superliga level in Spain. (actualidad.rt.com, 08 Jun 2015; adofa.es, 13 Sep 2012)

2001 for Spain, in Tenerife, Spain (adofa.es, 13 Sep 2012; fivb.org, 19 Jun 2016)

He played at the 2012 Olympic Games in London with a right knee injury. Tests found a partial rupture of the patella tendon and he had surgery on the injury in December 2012. (actualidad.rt.com, 08 Jun 2015)

He injured both knees during 2011 and needed surgery at the end of the year. (nostresport.com, 11 Nov 2011; infoesport.es, Jun 2011)

In 2003 he was injured in a serious car accident that almost finished his career, but he recovered in time for the 2004 season. (rfevb.com, 2008)

He began playing volleyball at age 12. (adofa.es, 13 Sep 2012)

He was playing volleyball and, as he lived close to the beach, he decided to play beach volleyball when the indoor season finished. At one beach championship he was spotted by coach Sixto Jimenez who offered him the chance to train with Spain's national team. He first partnered Javier Bosma in 2001. (actualidad.rt.com, 08 Jun 2015; entretantomagazine.com, 23 Jan 2013; adofa.es, 13 Sep 2012; adofa.es, 13 Sep 2012; fivb.org, 19 Jun 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (elmundo.es, 20 Mar 2020)

He trains at the Beach Volleyball Technical Sports Centre in Arona, Spain. (sanropolis.8directo.com, 16 Jan 2020)

Spanish beach volleyball player Sixto Jimenez. (herreramesa.com, 29 Jan 2008)

He was named Best European Beach Volleyball Player in 2004 and 2005. (proyectofer.es, 08 May 2019)

He was named Best Sportsman in the city of Castellon in 2004. (elperiodicomediterraneo.com, 19 Nov 2004)

A junior volleyball tournament in his hometown of Castellon, Spain, and a municipal sports pavilion in El Grau, the town next to Castellon, are named after him. (adofa.es, 13 Sep 2012; actualitatdiaria.com, 17 Sep 2015)