Sandra Ygueravide

Sandra Ygueravide
Ygueravide in 2023
Personal information
Born (1984-12-28) 28 December 1984 (age 39)
Valencia, Spain
Listed height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Career information
Playing career2001–present
PositionPoint guard
Career history
2001–2004Ros Casares
2004–2005Avenida
2005–2006Ciudad de Burgos
2007–2011Estudiantes
2011–2013Txingudi
2013Pays d'Aix Basket 13
2013–2014Botaş
2016–2017Wisła Kraków
2017–2019Nadezhda Orenburg
2019–2020UNI Győr
2020–2022Villeneuve-d'Ascq
2022–2023Gernika
2023–Uni Girona
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Women's 3x3 basketball
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Team
FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup
Gold medal – first place 2021 Paris
Gold medal – first place 2024 Vienna
Silver medal – second place 2023 Jerusalem
Silver medal – second place 2019 Debrecen

Sandra Ygueravide Viana[a] (born 28 December 1984) is a Spanish basketball player who plays as a point guard for Uni Girona and the Spanish 3x3 team.

Professional career

Ygueravide competed with the Spanish club Ros Casares in which she made her debut in the Liga Femenina at the age of seventeen. With the Valencian club, she won three Copa de la Reina (2002, 2003, 2004) titles and a league title (2003–04). In the 2004–05 season she signed for Avenida, winning her fourth Copa de la Reina trophy. Later, she played in several teams in the Liga Femenina, Ciudad de Burgos (2005–06), Estudiantes (2006–2011), and Txingudi (2011–13), among others.[1] Ygueravide has also competed in the Turkish League, French clubs Pays d'Aix Basket 13, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Polish club Wisła Kraków, where she won a Cup title (2017) and achieved a league runner-up (2016–17), and with Nadezhda Orenburg of the Russian League, winning their first European title, the EuroCup Women (2018–19).[2][3] In the 2022–23 season, she returned to the Liga Femenina playing for Gernika and the following year, she signed with Uni Girona.[4][5]

National team career

Ygueravide played internationally with the Spanish senior national team. She has also competed internationally with the 3x3 team, winning the Europe Cup (2021, being MVP of the tournament),[6][7] together with Vega Gimeno, Marta Canella and Aitana Cuevas, and runner-up twice (2019, 2023).[8] In September 2022, she reached number 1 in the FIBA 3x3 ranking, becoming the first Spanish player to do so.[9]

Notes

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

References

  1. ^ Herrán, A. (24 October 2012). "Ygueravide: "Hoy nos empujan a salir fuera"". As (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  2. ^ "EuroCup Women 2018-19". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  3. ^ "El Nadezhda de Lapeña, Ygueravide y Nicholls, campeón de la EuroCup 2018/19" (in Spanish). Gigantes. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Sandra Ygueravide: "Que exjugadoras que están preparadas den el paso a los banquillos me parece fenomenal"" (in Spanish). Gigantes. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  5. ^ Duque, Nacho (13 August 2022). "Sandra Ygueravide, la mejor jugadora de baloncesto 3x3". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Serbia and Spain win FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup 2021, presented by Caisse d'Epargne". FIBA. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  7. ^ "MVP Ygueravide shines in FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup 2021, presented by Caisse d'Epargne Team of The Tournament". FIBA. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  8. ^ SD, Redacción (7 September 2023). "Vega Gimeno y Sandra Ygueravide, subcampeonas de Europa". Super Deporte (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  9. ^ Duque, Nacho (13 August 2022). "Sandra Ygueravide, la mejor jugadora de baloncesto 3x3". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 October 2023.