Gedeón Guardiola Villaplana (born 1 October 1984) is a Spanish

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er for Club Balonmano Nava and the Spain national team. He was on the Spanish team that won the 2013 World Championship. He is a twin brother of Isaías Guardiola, also a handballer.

Career

Gedeón Guardiola started playing handball at his home town club BM Petrer. From 2001 to 2005 he played for Valencia, where he made his senior debut in the 2002-03 season.asobal.es
Player statistics for Liga Asobal - Gedeon Guardiola Villaplana In 2005 he joined SD Teucro. In 2008-09 he played a single season for Ciudad Logroño, before joining SDC San Antonio. In total he played 208 games in Liga ASOBAL, scoring 437 goals. In 2012 he moved to German team

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, where he played together with this twin brother, Isaías Guardiola. Here he won the 2012-13 EHF Cup. In October 2014 he extended his contract until 2018. In 2020 he joined league rivals

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. He won the German Championship back-to-back in 2016 and 2017 and the

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three times in a row from 2016 to 2018 with 'die Löwen'. When his contract was not extended in 2023, he left for HC Erlangen. In February 2024 he left Erlangen, as he wanted to return to Spain. He then joined Club Balonmano Nava on a deal until the end of the season 2025. In total he played 336

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games, scoring 465 goals.

National team

Guardiola debuted for the Spanish youth national team on 27 March 2002. He played five matches for the team. He later played 29 games for the U-21 team. He debuted for the Senior team on November 3rd, 2011 in the Supercup. His first major international tournament was the 2012 European Championship. Later the same year he played at the 2012 Olympics. He became a world champion at the 2013 World Championship. At the 2014 European Championship he won bronze medals. He also participated in the 2015 World Championship. At the

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and 2020 European Championships he won back-to-back gold medals with the Spanish team. At the

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in Tokyo he won bronze medals. At the 2022 European Championship he won silver medals, playing all ninegames and scoring 5 goals. A year later at the 2023 World Championship on home soil he won bronze medals. He missed the

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as he was injured a week before the games, during Spain's preparations.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guardiola Villaplana, Gedeon 1984 births Living people People from Vinalopó Mitjà Spanish male handball players Liga ASOBAL players SDC San Antonio players Rhein-Neckar Löwen players Handball-Bundesliga players Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Spanish expatriate handball players in Germany Olympic handball players for Spain Spanish twins Sportspeople from the Province of Alicante Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Spain Olympic medalists in handball TBV Lemgo players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen