Alberto Urdiales Márquez (born 17 November 1968) is a Spanish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player. He competed in the

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, and

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

Olympics. In 1992, he was a member of the Spanish handball team which finished fifth in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches and scored 30 goals. Four years later he won the

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with the Spanish team in the 1996 Olympics. He played all seven matches and scored 31 goals. At the 2000 Games, he won his second Olympic

as part of the Spanish team. He played three matches and scored one goal.

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* 1968 births Living people Spanish male handball players Handball players from Cantabria Olympic handball players for Spain Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Spain SDC San Antonio players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games Goodwill Games medalists in handball Sportspeople from Santander, Spain Spanish handball coaches Spanish sports executives and administrators 20th-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-handball-bio-stub