Iván Raña

Iván Raña Fuentes, born on 10 June 1979, is a Spanish triathlete who won three medals at the World Triathlon Championships between 2002 and 2004 and three more at the European league level between 2001 and 2003. He competed at three Olympic Games, in Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008, and earned two Olympic diplomas for fifth place in Sydney and Beijing. In 2002 he won world, European and national titles, and his victory at the world championship in Cancún was Spain's first gold medal in the event; in 2003 he finished second behind Australia's Peter Robertson. He has also raced rally cars with his brother Jose as co-driver. In December 2008 he signed with the professional cycling team Xacobeo-Galicia, crashed in his first race and broke his collarbone, and in December 2009 he returned to triathlon aiming for the 2012 Olympics.