IBANEZ BANON Sergio

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
9	Men -60 kg	2018	Odivelas, POR
European Championships
2	Men -60 kg	2017	Walsall, GBR
3	Men -66 kg	2019	Genoa, ITA

Fideo [Noodle] (judoclubzaragoza.com, 31 Aug 2015)

Athlete, Student

Sports Science

Spanish

Judo Club Zaragoza [Spain]

He has competed in able-bodied judo internationally, and represented Spain at the 2019 European Open in Odivelas, Portugal. (paralimpicos.es, 01 Feb 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 20 May 2021)

He took up the sport at age eight. (20minutos.es, 25 Feb 2019)

He was offered a list of sports by the Spanish National Organisation of the Blind [ONCE]. "I decided to try swimming and spent a little more than a year on it, but I didn't feel entirely comfortable, so I looked at the list again and thought I would try judo. I was a kid and did not know anything about judo. But I liked it immediately. Besides, my friends also practised it." (20minutos.es, 25 Feb 2019)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (tododisca.com, 09 Dec 2020)

He trains at the High Performance Centre [CAR] in Madrid, Spain. (deportesenaragon.es, 20 Apr 2021)

Ukrainian judoka Georgii Zantaraia, Japanese judoka Masashi Ebinuma. (judoclubzaragoza.com, 31 Aug 2015)

In 2019 he received a special award recognising his career from the Alagon City Council in Spain. (elperiodicodearagon.com, 05 Dec 2019)

He was named Para Athlete of the Year for 2018 at the Aragon Sports Gala in Spain. (deportesenaragon.es, 27 Apr 2018; fajyda.es, 25 Apr 2018)