Jesús Ángel García

Jesús Ángel García ( Jesús Ángel García Bragado; born October 17, 1969 in Madrid ) is a Spanish -goers who specializes in the 50 km distance.

In 1992 he made ​​his Olympic debut at the Games in Barcelona where he finished tenth.

The following year, he won at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart gold in 3:41:41 h In the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1994, he finished fourth at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg fifth.

In the 1996 Olympics he was on; for he won the following year at the World Cup 1997 in Athens silver 13 seconds behind Robert Korzeniowski, the man who was to dominate the sport in the coming years.

In the next three international championships success was: At Euro 1998 he was disqualified at the World Cup in 1999 in Seville, he gave up, and at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he was only twelfth.

In the 2000s he was back among the front runners: At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, he won silver at the European Championships and bronze in Munich in 2002.

In 2003, he arrived at the 2003 World Championships in Paris -Saint -Denis on the sixth, at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on the fifth place. One of disqualification at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki followed winning the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg behind the surprise winner Yohann Diniz (FRA).

At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, he won over the distance of 50 km in a time of 3:41:37 h the bronze medal.

García is married to the former world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Carmen Acedo. At a height of 1.71 m, it has a competition weight of 62 kg.

Bests

• 20 km Walking: 1:23:09 (2005)
• 30 km Walking: 2:08,47 (2001)
• 50 km Walking: 3:39:54 (1997)