Emilio Merchán Alonso (born 29 February 1976 in Zamora) is a Spanish sprint and marathon canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the

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in Dartmouth. Merchán also competed in two

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

, earning his best finish of fifth in the K-4 1000 m event at

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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in ''La Opinion de Zamora'' newspaper 1976 births Living people Spanish male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Spain Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships 20th-century Spanish people {{Spain-canoe-bio-stub