Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez
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| Full name | Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Gentle Giant, Supermanolo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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December 7, 1974 León, Spain |
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| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 140 kg (310 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | C.D. Universidad León Atletismo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Carlos Burón | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 29 April 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) |
Indoor: 21.26 metres (69 ft 9 in) Outdoor: 21.47 metres (70 ft 5 in) (2002) |
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Manuel "Manolo" Martínez Gutiérrez (born December 7, 1974) is a retired Spanish shot putter. Nicknamed the "Gentle Giant", his personal best throw outdoors is 21.47 metres and he has an indoor best of 21.26 m. These marks are the Spanish national records for the event. His international career lasted from 1992 to 2011 and he earned national selection on 84 occasions – the most by any Spanish athlete.
Born in León, Spain, he established himself as a junior athlete at the age of seventeen by winning the silver medal at the World Junior Championships and becoming the European Junior Champion the following year. His first major medals as a senior thrower came indoors when he won silver at the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships and then secured the bronze at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
His career highlights also came indoors, as he won at the 2002 European Indoor Championships and went on to take the gold medal at the 2003 World Indoor Championships. He scored the broze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in May 2013 following an IAAF drug test disqualified the first-place participant.
He represented Spain at the Olympics four times consecutively from 1996 to 2008, and also competed at five consecutive editions of the European Athletics Championships. He participated in the shot put at every World Championships in Athletics from 1993 to 2009, with the sole exception of the 1999 event.
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