Spain's first Winter Olympic medal in 26 years: Boardercross bronze for Regino Hernández
Thursday, February 15, 2018 @ 1:04 PM
SPAIN has won its first Winter Olympic medal in 26 years – Regino Hernández has netted the bronze in boardercross.
The snowboarder, from the Spanish-owned city-province of Ceuta on the northern Moroccan coast just across the water from Gibraltar is only the third Spaniard ever to win a Winter Olympic medal, after the Fernández Ochoa siblings did so 20 years apart.
Paco Fernández Ochoa – who would have been 68 this year, but died from cancer in 2006 - took the gold in slalom skiing 46 years ago in Sapporo, Japan and his sister Blanca scooped up the bronze in the same discipline 26 years ago in Albertville, France.
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