LLEONART BLANCO Xavier

Olympic Games

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

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2010	New Delhi, IND
8	Men	2014	The Hague, NED
13	Men	2018	Bhubaneswar, IND

FIH Pro League

Rank	Event	Year	Location
7	Men	2019
9	Men	2020

EuroHockey Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Men	2019	Antwerp, BEL
5	Men	2021	Amsterdam, NED
5	Men	2017	Amstelveen, NED

Gancho (rfeh.net, 01 Apr 2014)

Athlete

International Studies - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Catalan, English, Spanish

RC Polo [Barcelona, ESP] since 2018

Roger Pallarols [club], ESP; Fred Soyez [national], FRA

Forward (rfeh.es, 03 Jun 2016)

Left (Athlete, 03 Feb 2010)

2009 for Spain Against France, European Championships in Netherlands (Athlete, 03 Feb 2010)

An injury in his right shoulder after a fall during a league match in February 2017 forced him to have surgery and miss the rest of the season. (mundodeportivo.com, 14 Mar 2017)

Division de Honor A [ESP] (rfeh.es, 25 May 2021)

He began the sport at age three in Terrassa, Spain. (fih.ch, 17 Apr 2020)

His parents did not play hockey, but were members of the local hockey club, and enrolled him to play. (rfeh.com, 15 Aug 2011)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (olympics.com, 08 Feb 2021)

Winning his first Spanish league title with RC Polo, winning the 2018 Euro Hockey League with Dutch club HC Bloemendaal, scoring the winning goal that clinched the qualification for Spanish national team to the quarterfinals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, reaching the final at the 2019 European Championship in Antwerp, Belgium. (fih.ch, 17 Apr 2020)

Bulgarian footballer Hristo Stoichkov, Spanish hockey players Juan Escarre and Pol Amat, Dutch hockey player Ronald Brouwer, German hockey player Christopher Zeller. (Athlete, 03 Feb 2010; fih.ch, 17 Apr 2020)

Coaches Carlos Cuenca and Dani Martin. (fih.ch, 17 Apr 2020)

"I am lucky to still be competing after so many years and I still have motivation to improve. It is hard to perform at the highest level during such a long period of time. However, I hope to do so for many more games." (ritualhockey.com, 25 Feb 2021)

He was named Most Valuable Player at the final of the 2017/18 Euro Hockey League. (olympics.com, 08 Feb 2021)

He was named Most Promising Player at the 2009 European Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Athlete, 03 Feb 2010)