Macarena Aguilar

Macarena Aguilar Díaz[a] (born 12 March 1985)[1] is a Spanish former handball player who played for the Spanish national team.[2][3][4]

Club career

Aguilar started her senior career at Balonmano Sagunto, where she stayed for eight years.[5] With Sagunto, she won every domestic competition: the Spanish Championship, Spanish League Cup, Queen's Cup (Spanish: Copa de la Reina) and Spanish Supercup.[6] In July 2009, she moved to Estella to play for Itxako.[5] Here she won the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Spanish championship.

She then joined Danish team Randers HK.[7] In 2014 she joined Hungarian Győri ETO KC.[8] Here she won the 2015 Hungarian cup. In the summer of 2015 she joined Russian Rostov-Don, but immediately returned to Hungary a month later in September and joined Siófok KC.[9][10]

From 2016 to 2018, she played for the German team Thüringer HC.[1] Here she won the 2018 German championship. Afterwards she retired from handball.[11]

National team

Aguilar won a gold medal with the Spanish national team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería.[12] She won silver medals at the 2008 European Championship,[13] where the Spanish team reached the final after defeating Germany in the semifinal,[14] and the 2014 European Championship, where the team was defeated by Norway in the final.[15]

From 2004 to 2017, Aguilar played 240 matches and scored 638 goals for the national team.[16] She competed at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil,[17] where the Spanish team placed third. She was also part of the Spanish team that won bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2011 World Championship.[18]

Injuries and awards

Aguilar broke her nose five times during her career. She missed nine months of competition in 2008 due to a knee injury, and fractured a metatarsal bone on her foot at the 2012 European Championships. In 2013, she received the Bronze Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Aguilar and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.

References

  1. ^ a b "European Handball Federation - Macarena Aguilar Diaz / Player". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ Gurbindo, Andrea (31 July 2009). "Macarena Aguilar, nueva incorporación del Itxako" (in Spanish). Diariodenavarra.es. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  3. ^ "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). handball.sportresult.com. EHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b Macarena Aguilar. nbcolympics.com
  5. ^ a b "Itxako está muy cerca de fichar a la central Macarena Aguilar". Diario de Noticias (in Spanish). 27 July 2009. Archived from the original on 15 December 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  6. ^ Ambroš, Ivan (10 August 2009). "Itxako sign Macarena Aguilar". ehfcl.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  7. ^ "Macarena Aguilar joins Randers!". handball-planet.com. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  8. ^ "CL-Sieger Györ rüstet weiter auf" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Rostov mit weiterem Transfer aus Györ" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  10. ^ "Aguilar zurück in Ungarn" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  11. ^ "Newcomers could give THC the edge". ehfcl.com. European Handball Federation. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Handball – Medals by Event – Women". Centro de Documentación y Exposición de los Juegos Mediterraneos. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  13. ^ "Official squads, Women's EURO 2008. Spain team roster". European Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
  14. ^ "La selección femenina de balonmano hace historia" (in Spanish). 13 December 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
  15. ^ "Norway win sixth EHF EURO gold". huncro2014.ehf-euro.com. 21 December 2014. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  16. ^ "RFEBM - Real Federación Española de Balonmano" (in Spanish). R.F.E.BM. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  17. ^ "XX Women's World Championship 2011; Brasil – Team Roaster Spain" (PDF). International Handball Federation. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  18. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Macarena Aguilar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2015.