Álvaro Granados

Álvaro Granados Ortega^[1][2][a] (born 8 October 1998) is a Spanish professional water polo player. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Álvaro Granados
Personal information
Full name	Álvaro Granados Ortega
Born	(1998-10-08) 8 October 1998 (age 26) Terrassa, Spain
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Position	Driv
Handedness	Right
Club information
Current team	CN Atlètic-Barceloneta
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2017–2022	CN Atlètic-Barceloneta
2022–2024	Novi Beograd
2024-	CN Atlètic-Barceloneta
Medal record Men's water polo Representing  Spain World Championship 2022 Budapest Team 2019 Gwangju Team 2023 Fukuoka Team 2024 Doha Team European Championship 2024 Zagreb Team 2018 Barcelona Team 2020 Budapest Team 2022 Split Team FINA World League 2018 Budapest World Cup 2023 Los Angeles European Games 2015 Baku Team

Honours

Atlètic-Barceloneta

• Spanish Championship: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Copa del Rey: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Supercopa de España: 2017, 2018, 2019

Novi Beograd

• LEN Champions League runners-up: 2022–23
• Adriatic League: 2023–24
• Serbian Championship: 2022–23
• Serbian Cup: 2023–24

Individual

• Member of the World Team by total-waterpolo: 2022, 2023
• Summer Olympics Best Left Driv of the Tournament: 2024
• World Championship Team of the Tournament: 2022, 2024
• European Championship Top Scorer: 2024
• LEN Champions League Top Scorer: 2022–23, 2023–24
• LEN Champions League Left Winger of the Year: 2021–22, 2022–23
• LEN Champions League Left Driver of the Year: 2023–24
• Adriatic League MVP: 2023–24
• Adriatic League Top Scorer: 2023–24
• Adriatic League Left Winger of the Year: 2022–23, 2023–24
• Spanish Championship MVP: 2021–22
• Spanish Championship Top Scorer: 2021–22^[4]
• Spanish Championship Left Winger of the Year: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–
• Serbian Championship MVP: 2022–23
• Serbian Championship Top Scorer: 2022–23
• Serbian Championship Left Winger of the Year: 2022–23
• Spanish Water Polo Player of the Year: 2023

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Aguirre and the second or maternal family name is Rubio.

References

1. "UAB students to participate in the Olympic Games Paris 2024". UAB.cat. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 19 July 2024. As for water polo, the UAB Olympians are the goalkeeper of the women's national team Laura Ester Ramos (Biochemistry alumni), Álvaro Granados Ortega (Law), Nonas Pérez Vivas (Psychology), Paula Leitón Arrones (Sociocultural Gender Studies), Elena Ruiz Barril (Nursing) and Isabel Piralkova Coello (International Relations).
2. "XXXII JJOO Tokyo 2020 - Natación / Waterpolo: Hombres". COE.es (in Spanish). Comité Olímpico Español. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
3. "Water Polo: GRANADOS ORTEGA Alvaro". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
4. LEVERADE. "Estadísticas | 21/22 División de Honor Masculina". Real Federación Española de Natación (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 June 2022.

External links

• Alvaro Granados Ortega at World Aquatics
• Alvaro Granados Ortega at Olympics.com
• Alvaro Granados Ortega at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
• Alvaro Granados Ortega at the Baku 2015 European Games (archived)
• Álvaro Granados Ortega at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
• Álvaro Granados at Olympedia
• Álvaro Granados on Instagram