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Iñaki Urdangarin Liebaert is a Spanish handball player who competed in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Zumarraga in 1968, he played as a back for FC Barcelona Handbol. His professional career spanned from 1986 to 2000. He was educated at ESADE and speaks Spanish.
Urdangarin is a member of the Spanish Royal Family and holds the noble title of duke. He is married to Infanta Cristina of Spain. They have four children: Juan, Pablo, Miguel, and Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón. He has been convicted of perversion of justice, influence peddling, fraud, and counterfeiting.
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Film & TV
Known for
- Pla seqüència — Self - Interviewee2025
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Key facts
- Nationality
- Spanish
- Born
- Iñaki Urdangarin Liebaert , ( 1968-01-15 ) 15 January 1968 (age 58) , Zumárraga , Basque , Spain
- Spouse
- Infanta Cristina of Spain ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 4 October 1997</span>"}]]}'>1997 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. December 2023</span>"}]]}'>2023 )
- Parent s
- Juan María Urdangarin Berriochoa, Claire Françoise Liebaert Courtain
- Sport
- Handball
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Spanish Royal Family
- Given name
- Iñaki
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Zumarraga
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 1996 Summer Olympics
- Noble title
- duke
- Sport
- handball
- Member of team
- FC Barcelona Handbol
- Position played
- back
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Image
- Iñaki Urdangarín.jpg
- Height
- 197
- Residence
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Convicted of
- fraud
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- Commons category
- Iñaki Urdangarin
- date of birth
- 1968-01-15
- name in native language
- Iñaki Urdangarin Liebaert
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- end of work period
- 2000-00-00
- birth name
- Iñaki Urdangarin Liebaert
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Encyclopedic overview
Iñaki Urdangarin Liebaert (born 15 January 1968) is a retired Spanish handball player turned entrepreneur and the former husband of Infanta Cristina, younger daughter of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía. He was the brother-in-law of King Felipe VI. Urdangarin was convicted in the Nóos case for embezzling about 6 million euros in public funds for sporting events through his nonprofit foundation beginning in 2004, and for political corruption by misusing his former courtesy title of consort Duke of Palma de Mallorca as the husband of Infanta Cristina. In June 2018 he was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison; he was initially imprisoned in Ávila, but as of 2021 he was on supervised release.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iñaki Urdangarin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.