Laura Gil Collado (born 24 April 1992) is a Spanish

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player for

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and the

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. At club level, she has been on teams that won the 2011 EuroLeague, the 2021 EuroCup and three

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competitions. As a member of the Spain national teams, she has been a medallist in all the tournaments she has played in from 2007 to 2019: nine medals at youth level and eight medals at senior level. The last medal won was gold at the

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Club career

Gil played as a junior in the Segle XXI project from 2008 to 2010, where young talents are developed from youth teams to the Spanish second tier. In 2010, she signed for one of the top teams in the league

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, winning the 2011 EuroLeague and the Spanish League. She spent the next five years in four different clubs, winning the 2014 league, going back to former club CB Avenida in 2016, where they won the double

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in 2017 and 2018.

EuroLeague and EuroCup statistics

National team

Gil started playing with

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's youth teams at 15, winning a total of nine medals from 2007 to 2012. She made her debut with the senior team in 2013, when she was 21 years old. Up to 2021, she had 134 caps with 4.4 PPG: * Silver medal icon

2007 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship The 2007 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship was the 21st edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The cities of Ierapetra, Rethymno and Heraklion, in Greece, hosted the tournament. Serbia won the trophy for the first time since the dissolu ...

(''youth'') * Gold medal icon

2008 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship The 2008 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship was the 22nd edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The city of Chieti, in Italy, hosted the tournament. Lithuania men's national basketball team, Lithuania won the trophy for the first time. H ...

(''youth'') * Gold medal icon

2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship The 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was the 26th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. The competition was held in Metz and nearby Hagondange, France, from July 23 to August 2 and featured 16 teams. Serbia won the title after b ...

(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship The 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (Maori: 2009 FIBA I-Raro I Te 19 Tau Toa o Te Ao) was the 9th edition of the FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup, FIBA U19 World Championship, the biennial international men's youth basketball championship ...

(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship was the 13th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. The cities of Zadar, Crikvenica and Makarska, in Croatia, hosted the tournament. France national basketball team, France won their first titl ...

(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was the 27th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. 16 teams featured the competition, held in Lithuania from July 22 to August 1. Serbia was the defending champion. Lithuania won the title a ...

(''youth'') * Gold medal icon

2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship The 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship was the 14th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. The competition featured 16 teams, held in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain from July 14–24. Spain became a champion for the first time. Pa ...

(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship The 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (Latvian: 2011. gada FIBA pasaules čempionāts līdz 19 gadu vecumam) was the 10th edition of the FIBA U19 World Championship, the biennial international men's youth basketball championship contested b ...

(''youth'') * Gold medal icon

2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship The 2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship was the 15th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. 16 teams featured in the competition, held in Slovenia from 12 to 22 July 2012. Lithuania won the title for the second time. Participating ...

(''youth'') * Gold medal europe

2013 Eurobasket EuroBasket 2013 was the 38th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe. It took place from 4 September until 22 September 2013 in Slovenia. The number of participating teams was 24. France defeated Lithuania in the ...

2014 World Championship * Bronze medal europe

2015 Eurobasket EuroBasket 2015 was the 39th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by Croatia, France, Germany, and Latvia, making it the first EuroBasket held in more than one country. It started on 5 Sept ...

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

2017 Eurobasket EuroBasket 2017 was the 40th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe and held between 31 August and 17 September 2017. Beginning from 2017, the continental championships take place every four years with a similar ...

2018 World Championship * Gold medal europe

2019 Eurobasket * 7th 2021 Eurobasket * 6th

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

2023 Eurobasket

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Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

Laura Gil – COE – Paris 2024
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