Pablo Herrera (beach volleyball)
Pablo Herrera Allepuz ( born June 29, 1982 in Castellon de la Plana, Spain ) is a Spanish volleyball player and silver medalist at the Olympic Games.
Career
At the age of 19 years, Pablo Herrera and Raul Mesa denied their first tournament of the FIVB World Tour could, however, win in this and the following two events a single game. In the U21 World Championships, the two Spaniards were successful. First, they reached in 2001 in Le Lavandou second place, a year later they were in Catania world champion.
2003 started Javier Bosma and Herrera, together with the World Tour. Best result was a ninth place in Mallorca. In the same year the athlete from Castellón had a serious car accident and spent three days in a coma. It was unclear whether the Spaniard could ever play sports at a high level again. Nevertheless, it was the following year was his most successful in the first decade of his career. Herrera and Bosma won the first final at the Italian Open the European Championship Tour against Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Recker man. A week later they defeated the reigning world champion at the time Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos in the final of the Olympic Garden Open in Lianyungang. At the Olympic Games in Athens, the two Spaniards, both the Swiss Laciga brothers Martin and Paul and the Austrian couples Berger / Gosch and Nowotny / Gart Mayer defeated in the group matches. In the second round to Herrera and Bosma prevailed against the Swedes Bjorn Berg and Simon Dahl, in the following round, they shut off the Canadians John Child and Mark Heese from. In the semifinals, the Australians Julien Prosser and Mark Williams were defeated. Only in the final against Emanuel / Santos ended the triumph of Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera, who won the U23 European Championship with his childhood partner Raul Mesa in the same year. With him Herrera was 2005 continental champions of adults in Moscow after victories over the German Christoph Dieckmann / Andreas Scheuer plow in the semifinals and the Swiss Patrick Heuscher / Stefan Kobel in the final. In the following two years, the Spanish beach volleyball players arrived at the World Series a fourth place in Roseto degli Abruzzi and fifth places in Paris and Klagenfurt and occupied ninth place at the World Championships in Gstaad. 2008 Mesa and Herrera won the bronze medal in Berlin and the gold medal in Kristiansand.
2009, launched the athletes from Castellón de la Plana with Adrián Gavira Collado. The two won second place in Marseilles and The Hague and were third in Gstaad, Stare Jablonki and Sanya. In Stavanger Herrera reached with his partner had hitherto been his best finish at a World Cup. The two were fifth. In all eleven events of the World Tour, where they took part, the athletes of the Iberian peninsula in the top ten were. She also won two tournaments of the European beach tour and the bronze medal at the European Championships in Sochi.
2010
In Brasilia Herrara and Gavira occupied ninth place, in Shanghai they were fifth, before they won their first medal of the year in Rome as third parties. In Myslowice they reached the finals, but lost to Rogers and Dalhausser. Then the Spaniard fourth in Stavanger and Åland, Fifth and Seventh in Moscow and Klagenfurt in Prague were. In three other events Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira yet each Ninth, only in the The Hague Open it was not enough to rank among the top ten teams.
2011
In the first tournament of the year in the capital of Brazil, the Spaniards occupied the ninth place. In Shanghai, they reached the semi-finals, but lost to Rogers / Dalhausser and then against Brink / Recker man. After the seventh place in Prague Herrera / Gavira failed at the last event before the World Championships in the Chinese capital in the quarter-finals of the Swiss Bellaguarda / Heuscher and finished fifth. At the World Championships in Rome again they finished in fifth place.