Albert Rocas Comas (born 16 June 1982) is a Spanish
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic 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 throwing it into the g ...
player. He is currently retired and is working in a Spanish school.
He participated at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
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 Championship ...
. The team won a bronze medal, defeating
Croatia
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. He was included as "Best right wing" in that tournament's All Star Team.
At the
2013 World Men's Handball Championship
The 2013 World Men's Handball Championship was the 23rd World Men's Handball Championship, an international handball tournament that took place in Spain from 11 to 27 January 2013. This was the first time Spain hosted the World Men's Handball C ...
, the national team became world champion for the second time.
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1982 births
Living people
Spanish male handball players
Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for Spain
Olympic bronze medalists for Spain
Liga ASOBAL players
BM Valladolid players
SDC San Antonio players
FC Barcelona Handbol players
Olympic medalists in handball
Handball players from Catalonia
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
BM Granollers players
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
21st-century Spanish people
People from Baix Empordà
Sportspeople from the Province of Girona
Expatriate handball players
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
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