Alfonso “Sete” Benavides López de Ayala (born 9 March 1991 in) is a Spanish

sprint canoe A sprint canoe is a canoe used in International Canoe Federation canoe sprint. It is an open boat propelled by one, two or four paddlers from a kneeling position, using single-bladed paddles. The difficulty of balance can depend on how wide or nar ...

ist, a World and European medallist.

Career

After winning the bronze medal in the C-1 200 m at the 2011 World Championships, Benavides competed in the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, he competed in the Men's C-1 200 metres. A year later, he won bronze in the C-1 200 m at the

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

. He was named the Spanish Canoeing Federation's male athlete of the year in 2014. In 2019, he won bronze in the men's C-2 500 m at the

, with

Antoni Segura Antoni Segura (born 9 September 1996) is a Spanish sprint canoeist. Antoni was a participant of the 2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. He won a medal at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Champ ...

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* * * Spanish male canoeists 1991 births Living people Olympic canoeists for Spain Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Sportspeople from Mallorca Canoeists at the 2015 European Games Canoeists at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in canoeing European Games bronze medalists for Spain 21st-century Spanish people {{Spain-canoe-bio-stub