GARCIA GRAU Begona

Date of Birth: 19 Jul 1995

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.65/5'4''

Place of birth: ZARAGOZA

Birth Country:

Spain

Place of residence : MADRID

Residence Country:

Spain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Hockey	Women ESP Spain	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W04 AUS Australia 3 ESP Spain 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W10 ARG Argentina 3 ESP Spain 0	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Pool B #W15 NZL New Zealand 1 ESP Spain 2	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Pool B #W19 ESP Spain 2 CHN China 0	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Women's Pool B #W26 JPN Japan 1 ESP Spain 4	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Women's Quarter-final #W32 ESP Spain 2 (0) GBR Great Britain 2 (2)	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
8	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2018	London, GBR

EuroHockey Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2019	Antwerp, BEL
4	Women	2021	Amsterdam, NED
5	Women	2017	Amstelveen, NED

Junior World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2016	Santiago, CHI

Bego (Instagram profile, 28 Mar 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Architecture - Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

Club de Campo [Madrid, COL]

Eduardo Aguilar [club], ESP; Adrian Lock [national], GBR

Position style:

Forward (rfeh.es, 04 Mar 2020)

Sporting relatives:

Her brother Guillermo has played professional hockey in Belgium. (cartv.es, 24 Nov 2019)

2014 for Spain, in Dublin, Ireland (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016)

In 2013 she suffered a broken nose. (Athletes, 08 Aug 2016)

National league:

Division de Honor [ESP] (rfeh.es, 08 Mar 2020)

She began playing hockey in 2004 in Zaragoza, Spain. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016; heraldo.es, 29 Oct 2019)

Her brother practised hockey and she followed him into the sport. She first trained with a boys' team in Zaragoza, Spain, before joining a girls' team in Valencia, to where she commuted every week in order to play. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016; visibilitas.com, 16 Mar 2017; heraldo.es, 29 Oct 2019)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (heraldo.es, 29 Oct 2019)

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016)

Philosophy:

"If you work hard and commit yourself to what you want, you will surely get results." (visibilitas.com, 16 Mar 2017)

She was named Most Valuable Player of the 2019 Division de Honor Final Four tournament in Spain. (as.com, 22 May 2019)

She was named the 2017 Female Athlete of the Year in Aragon, Spain. (rfeh.es, 01 May 2018)

General Interest

General
LEAVING HOME
She began playing hockey at school in her hometown of Zaragoza, Spain. "My coach [in Zaragoza] knew a coach in Valencia and I played on a girls' team there at the weekends. I moved to Madrid when I was 17. Leaving home is always hard the first few months, but I knew what I wanted, I wanted to play, to train and compete on a hockey team and I never had a doubt about staying." (elperiodicodearagon.com, 21 Mar 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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