Lorea Ibarzabal
Personal information
Full nameLorea Ibarzabal Padorno
Born (1994-11-07) 7 November 1994
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
Sport
CountrySpain
SportAthletics
Event800 metres
ClubAtlético San Sebastian
Achievements and titles
Personal bests

Lorea Ibarzabal Padorno (born 7 November 1994) is a Spanish middle-distance runner. She finished fourth in the 800 metres at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.

Ibarzabal won two Spanish national titles (800 m indoors).

Career

In February 2021, after she overcame a significant injury, 26-year-old Lorea Ibarzabal won her first national title, with a victory in the 800 metres at the Spanish Indoor Championships.[1]

In February 2023, she ran the second-fastest time by a Spanish woman ever in the indoor 800 m, clocking 2:01.00 in Metz.[2] The same month, she claimed national indoor 800 m title for the second time.[3] In March, the 28-year-old competed in the event at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul. It was the Ibarzabal's first major competition representing Spain, and she said that the semi-final was additionally emotional for her as she was competing on the birthday of her running partner Bea, who had died four months earlier.[4] In the final she came within 0.02 s of bronze medal, but ran a personal best of 2:00.87 to finish fourth.[5]

In July 2023, she broke two minutes for the 800m, running 1:59.88 in Madrid.[6]

Personal life

Ibarzabal was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria but is now based in Madrid and trains in Valladolid.[7] She studied engineering at the University of Southern California.[1] Her father, Daniel Ibarzabal, is from Zumarraga in Gipuzkoa province of the Basque country. Her mother, Patricia Padorno, was a middle-distance runner in the 1980s.[1] Her maternal grandfather is a Spanish poet Manuel Padorno.[8]

National titles

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lorea Ibarzabal se proclama campeona de España de 800 metros". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). 23 February 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Lorea Ibarzabal, segunda mejor marca española de siempre en 800". Marca (in Spanish). 11 February 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Hidalgo, Santiago (26 February 2023). "Una relación idílica de 800 metros con Valladolid". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Adrián Ben y Lorea Ibarzabal son finalistas del 800". Diario AS (in Spanish). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  5. ↑ "Adrián Ben, oro europeo indoor en los 800 metros por tres milésimas!". Marca (in Spanish). 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Smythe, Steve (25 July 2023). "World qualifiers in Europe for Isabelle Boffey and Ami Pipi". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Mechaal se apunta al desafío ante Ingebrigtsen en la esperada final de 3.000". La Provincia (in Spanish). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  8. ↑ López, Karel (17 March 2021). "Atletismo: Lorea Ibarzabal: una artista sobre la pista que lleva el arte en la sangre". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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