Jon Belaustegui Ruano (born 19 March 1979 in

San Sebastián San Sebastian, officially known as Donostia–San Sebastián (names in both local languages: ''Donostia'' () and ''San Sebastián'' ()) is a city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the Basque Country (autonomous community), B ...

Guipúzcoa Gipuzkoa (, , ; es, Guipúzcoa ; french: Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French depa ...

) 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 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

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1979 births Living people Spanish male handball players Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Spain Olympic bronze medalists for Spain CB Ademar León players BM Valladolid players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in handball Sportspeople from San Sebastián Handball players from the Basque Country (autonomous community) 21st-century Spanish people Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games {{Spain-handball-bio-stub