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Rafael Guijosa Castillo (born 31 January 1969, in Alcalá de Henares) is a former Spanish handball player, and current manager of Iran men's national handball team. When playing for the Spanish national team, he won bronze medals both in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Guijosa was voted World Player of the Year 1999 by the International Handball Federation.
References
- Profile: "Rafael Guijosa" Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 26, 2008)
- Previous World Handball Players Archived 2009-06-22 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on January 26, 2008)
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| IHF World Player of the Year – Men | |
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| Rankings before 1988: Ștefan Birtalan (1974, 1976, 1977) Best Player of All Time: Gheorghe Gruia (1992) Player of the 20th Century: Magnus Wislander (2000) IHF Best Player in History: Ivano Balić (2010) |
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- 1969 births
- Living people
- Spanish male handball players
- Olympic handball players for Spain
- Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Spain
- Sportspeople from Alcalá de Henares
- Liga ASOBAL players
- FC Barcelona Handbol players
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Handball players from the Community of Madrid
- Spanish handball coaches
- Handball coaches of international teams
- Expatriate handball coaches
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Iran
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Rwanda
- 20th-century Spanish sportsmen
- Spanish Olympic medalist stubs
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