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Margarita Ivonne "Wonny" Geuer Draeger (born 3 May 1966) is a former Spanish
basketball
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player who represented Spain
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from 1985 to 1993 and winning a gold medal at the 1993 European Championship. At club level, she won the 1993 FIBA European Champions Cup and 4 Liga Femenina titles.
Club career
Geuer started playing at 14, in Irlandesas de Bamí and Medicina Oximper in her hometown of Sevilla. At 17, she started her senior career atReal Canoe NC
Real Canoe Natación Club is a Sports club, multisport club based in Madrid, Spain. The club was founded in 1930.
History
The club was founded in 1930 via a merger of "Club Natación Atlético" & "Canoë Club." Mr Julián López became the club' ...
, where she won three consecutive Liga Femenina titles, from 1984 to 1986. She spent the next two years in Lugo
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at CD Xuncas, where she was runner-up in the 1987 league and in the 1987 and 1988 Copa de la Reina
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. She spent the next four years at the BEX Banco Exterior BEX Banco Exterior or Toledo'92 was a Spanish women's basketball team from Toledo, Spain, Toledo and Madrid. It competed 4 seasons in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, Spanish top-tier league from 1988 to 1992.
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team, where the most talented Spanish players were recruited in order to compete in the 1992 Summer Olympics
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held in Barcelona
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Geuer's last year as a professional was at Dorna Godella, where she won the FIBA Club World Cup in September 1992 in Brazil, and the 1993 Liga Femenina and the FIBA European Champions Cup.
National team
Geuer made her debut withSpain women's national basketball team
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at the age of 19. She played with the senior team for 8 years, from 1985 to 1993, with a total of 158 caps and 10.9 PPG. She participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and in three European Championships
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* 10th 1985 Eurobasket
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* 6th 1987 Eurobasket
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* 5th 1992 Summer Olympics
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* 1993 Eurobasket
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Geuer retired from the national team and from professional basketball at the age of 27, with a gold medal in the 1993 European Championship final in Perugia
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Personal life
Born of German parents in Spain and married to former basketball player Guillermo Hernangómez Heredero, Geuer is the mother ofNBA
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players Willy Hernangómez and Juancho Hernangómez
Juan Alberto "Juancho" Hernangómez Geuer (born September 28, 1995) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for Estudiantes of the Liga ACB, and ha ...
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