PIZARRO Federico

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
10	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
10	Men	2012	London, GBR

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
11	Men	2021	Egypt
12	Men	2015	Qatar
12	Men	2011	Sweden
16	Men	2007	Germany
18	Men	2017	France
18	Men	2013	Spain
18	Men	2009	Croatia

Pan American Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2019	Lima, PER

Pan American Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2018	Greenland

Fede, El Malabarista [The Juggler]. (Facebook page, 12 Jun 2016; infobae.com, 25 Oct 2011)

Athlete

Public Relations

English, Spanish

Liberbank Cuenca [Spain] since 2020

Lidio Jimenez [club], ESP; Manuel Cadenas [national], ESP

Right wing (Facebook page, 12 Jun 2016)

Left (Twitter profile, 16 Jun 2016)

His younger brother Ignacio has represented Argentina in handball, and won gold at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (Instagram profile, 21 Oct 2019; lima2019.pe, 05 Aug 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 02 Mar 2020)

He sustained an elbow injury during the final match against Chile at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. He underwent surgery following the event. (piramideinvertida.com.ar, 26 Aug 2019)

In November 2018 he tore a ligament in his left knee and underwent surgery. He was sidelined for eight months and missed the 2019 World Championship in Denmark and Germany. (lavozdeportiva.com.ar, 16 Jan 2020; piramideinvertida.com.ar, 26 Aug 2019)

Liga ASOBAL [ESP] (eldiadigital.es, 06 Feb 2020)

He began playing handball at age 15 at school. (pasionhandball.blogspot.com, 30 Mar 2011)

He played football as a youth but got tired of it. "I stopped playing but my father insisted that I continued doing sport. Since all the boys in my school were playing handball, I decided to give it a try." (pasionhandball.blogspot.com, 30 Mar 2011)

Argentinian basketball player Manu Ginobili. (eliteamateur.blogspot.fr, 13 Apr 2012)

Coach Pablo Figueredo. (pasionhandball.com.ar, 03 Feb 2015)

"Never give up. Always find a reason to keep trying." (Twitter profile, 16 Jun 2016)

He received the 2012 and 2014 Jorge Newbery Award. The honour recognises the best handball player in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (handballargentina.com, 09 Jun 2015, 03 Jul 2012)