| Lorea Ibarzabal | |
| Fullname: | Lorea Ibarzabal Padorno |
| Birth Date: | 7 November 1994 |
| Birth Place: | Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Height: | 1.69 m |
| Country: | Spain |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | 800 metres |
| Club: | Atlético San Sebastian |
Lorea Ibarzabal Padorno (born 7 November 1994) is a Spanish middle-distance runner. She finished fourth in the 800 metres at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
Ibarzabal has won multiple Spanish national titles (800 m indoors and outdoors).
In February 2021, after she overcame a significant injury, 26-year-old Lorea Ibarzabal won her first national title, with a victory in the 800 metres at the Spanish Indoor Championships.[1]
In February 2023, she ran the second-fastest time by a Spanish woman ever in the indoor 800 m, clocking 2:01.00 in Metz.[2] The same month, she claimed national indoor 800 m title for the second time.[3] In March, the 28-year-old competed in the event at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul. It was the Ibarzabal's first major competition representing Spain, and she said that the semi-final was additionally emotional for her as she was competing on the birthday of her running partner Bea, who had died four months earlier.[4] In the final she came within 0.02 s of bronze medal, but ran a personal best of 2:00.87 to finish fourth.[5]
In July 2023, she broke two minutes for the 800m, running 1:59.88 in Madrid.[6]
She competed for Spain at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres. She ran an indoors personal best in her qualifying heat with a time of 2:00.56.[7] She competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[8] She was officially selected for th She competed in the 800 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024.[9] [10]
| Representing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | European Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 4th | 800 m | 2:00.87 |
| European Games | Chorzów, Poland | 9th | 800 m | 2:00.86 | |
| World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 55th (h) | 800 m | 2:06.33 | |
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 11th (sf) | 800 m | 2:00.73 |
| European Championships | Rome, Italy | 12th (h) | 800 m | 2:01.15 | |
| Olympic Games | Paris, France | 6th (rep) | 800 m | 1:59.81 | |
Ibarzabal was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria but is now based in Madrid and trains in Valladolid.[11] She studied engineering at the University of Southern California. Her father, Daniel Ibarzabal, is from Zumarraga in Gipuzkoa province of the Basque country. Her mother, Patricia Padorno, was a middle-distance runner in the 1980s. Her maternal grandfather is a Spanish poet Manuel Padorno.[12]