Rubén Garabaya

Rubén Garabaya, October 12, 2008

Status: National April 2012

Rubén Garabaya Arenas ( born September 15, 1978 in Avilés, Spain ) is a Spanish handball player. He is 2.01 m tall and weighs 107 kg.

Garabaya, who plays for the Spanish club Nature House La Rioja and for the Spanish national team ( back number 6) runs, is generally used as a circular rotor.

Rubén Garabaya started at BM Corvera with the handball game. His first league game in the Spanish league ASOBAL he played in 1997 for Ademar Leon. Here he won the 1999 Copa ASOBAL and the European Cup Winners' Cup. From 1999 to 2001, he played two years for Frigorificos del Morrazo Cangas, before joining BM Valladolid. With the rivals of his former club Ademar León, he won again in 2003, the Copa ASOBAL and in 2005 and 2006, the Copa del Rey de Balonmano; as the climax, he moved in 2007 with Valladolid semi-finals of the EHF Champions League, where, however, failed due to the SG Flensburg -Handewitt. In 2007, the FC Barcelona Garabaya under contract. There he won in 2009 and again in 2010, the Copa del Rey. With Barcelona, ​​he was also in the 2010 final of the Champions League, but failed there on THW Kiel. Then moved to Garabaya Nature House La Rioja.

Garabaya has until April 2012 168 caps for the Spanish national team contest in which he threw 318 goals. He won gold at the 2005 World Championships and silver at the European Championships in 2006. During the 2007 World Cup in Germany, he resigned from Spain in the quarter- final against Germany and occupied at the end only a disappointing 7th place. At the 2008 Olympic Games and the World Championships 2011 he won the bronze medal with the national team, respectively.