Jon Belaustegui Ruano (born 19 March 1979 in

San Sebastián San Sebastián, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián (, ), is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, from the France–Spain border ...

Guipúzcoa Gipuzkoa ( , ; ; ) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantique ...

) 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 participated at the

2008 summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

in Beijing as a member of the

Spain men's national handball team The Spain national handball team is governed by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation. Spain is one of the most successful handball teams in the world, having won two IHF World Men's Handball Championship, World Champions ...

. The team won a bronze medal, defeating

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

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* * * 1979 births Living people Spanish expatriate handball players in Germany Spanish male handball players Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Spain Olympic bronze medalists for Spain CB Ademar León players BM Valladolid players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Handball players at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in handball Sportspeople from San Sebastián Handball players from Gipuzkoa 21st-century Spanish people Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Handball SV Hamburg players {{Spain-handball-bio-stub