ESTER RAMOS Laura

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2012	London, GBR
5	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2013	Barcelona, ESP
2	Women	2019	Gwangju, KOR
2	Women	2017	Budapest, HUN
7	Women	2015	Kazan, RUS
8	Women	2009	Rome, ITA
11	Women	2011	Shanghai, CHN

World League - Super Final

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Women	2021	Athens, GRE
5	Women	2018	Kunshan, CHN

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2018	Surgut, RUS

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2020	Budapest, HUN
3	Women	2018	Barcelona, ESP

Pajarito [Spanish for 'Little Bird'. "A coach used to say that I had the legs of a little bird and I flew like a little bird, so the name stuck."]. (rfen.es, 22 Jul 2020; as.com, 26 Jul 2019)

Watching TV, reading, supporting Spanish football club FC Barcelona. (marca.com, 09 Apr 2020; mundodeportivo.com, 26 Sep 2020)

Athlete

Biochemistry - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Catalan, Spanish

CN Sabadell [Spain] since 2010

David Palma [club], ESP; Miguel Angel Oca [national], ESP

Goalkeeper (as.com, 26 Jul 2019)

Right (wpbelgrade2016.microplustiming.com, 10 Jan 2016)

Her brother has competed in Para triathlon. (elpais.com, 01 Aug 2013)

Division de Honor [ESP] (Twitter profile, 18 May 2021)

She began playing water polo at age 12. (mundodeportivo.com, 27 Jan 2018)

A coach at her former club, CN Mediterrani, wanted to create a women's team and offered her the chance to be the goalkeeper. "Water polo chose me because at the beginning I didn't know what it was." (mundodeportivo.com, 27 Jan 2018)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (mundodeportivo.com, 26 Sep 2020)

Spanish water polo player Jesus Rollan, Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi. (estudiantes.elpais.com, 18 Apr 2013; mundodeportivo.com, 26 Sep 2020)

"Never give up. Have a clear goal and fight for it. And realise that if you want something it's going to cost you." (estudiantes.elpais.com, 18 Apr 2013)

In 2017 and 2019 she was named Female Water Polo Player of the Year by the European Swimming League [LEN]. (goalsn.com, 10 Jan 2020; swimswam.com, 22 Jan 2018)

She was named in the All-Star team at the world championships in 2017 and 2019. (fina.org, 26 Jul 2019, 28 Jul 2017)

Alongside her teammates in the Spanish national team, she received the Extraordinary Medal for Sports Merit from the Spanish Swimming Federation in recognition of the bronze medal they won at the 2018 European Championships in Barcelona, Spain. (rfen.es, 04 Oct 2018)

A swimming pool has been named in her honour in Penaparda, Spain. (as.com, 23 Jan 2018)