Xavier García Gadea, born on 5 January 1984, is a Spanish-Croatian water polo player. He was a member of the Spanish national team between 1999 and 2013, finishing sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, fifth at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and sixth again at the 2012 Olympics in London, and fifth at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in his home town of Barcelona. He has played in Croatia since 2010, and after being left out of the Spanish team in 2013 he obtained Croatian citizenship in 2016 so that he could take part in the Rio Olympics, where he faced Spain in the group stage. He won the LEN Champions League with VK Jug in 2015-16 and was a member of the Total Waterpolo World Team in 2018.
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He was a member of the Spain national team between 1999 and 2013
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finishing in sixth place at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, fifth at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and sixth again at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
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