Ángela del Pan Moruno (Bilbao, born April 19 of 1985) is a former Spanish rugby player.[1]

Ángela del Pan
Full nameÁngela del Pan Moruno
Date of birth (1985-04-19) 19 April 1985 (age 39)
Place of birthBilbao, Spain
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Rugby union career
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2005–2012 Club Esportiu INEF Barcelona (0)
Heidelberger RK (0)
Sanse Scrum Rugby (0)
Pozuelo RU (0)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2008–2017 Spain 37 (0)
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
2016–? Spain 7s 197

Career

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Del Pan played as a Flanker, she trained at the Club Esportiu INEF Barcelona where she played a large part of her sports career. With the Barcelona club, she won eight Catalan Championships consecutively (2005-12) and six Spanish Championships (2006, 2007 , 2009, 2010, 2011, being chosen best player of the championship, 2012).

She represented Spain at an international level on 234 occasions with the Spanish XV and 7's rugby teams,[2] was proclaimed several times European champion in both modalities.

She has participated in two Women's Rugby World Cups (2014 and 2017) and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in rugby sevens, obtaining a diploma Olympic.[3][4] Competing with the Catalan national team, she won a Spanish Championship of regional national teams (2012) and was runner-up the following year.

After her retirement from sport in 2017, she graduated in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at the INEFC.[5] She served as a delegate for the Spanish XV and 7's rugby teams (2017-18) and as technical coordinator of the Spanish Rugby Federation (2019-22).[6]

Achievements

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Teams
Spanish selection
  • 1 gold medal at the European XV Championship: 2010
  • 1 silver medal at the European XV Rugby Championship: 2011
  • 1 gold medal at the European Rugby Championship at 7: 2010
  • 1 silver medal at the European Rugby Championship at 7: 2009

References

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  1. ^ "Ángela del Pan Moruno". Rugby Femenino (in Spanish).
  2. ^ "Ángela del Pan: jefa en el campo y fuera de él". Diario Marca (in Spanish). 2018-05-08.
  3. ^ "News: Spain name Womens squad for Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow". ur7s.com. 21 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  4. ^ "DEL PAN Angela". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  5. ^ Women Rugby, ed. (2023-07-13). "Angela del Pan: Retention key to growth of women's rugby in Spain | Women in Rugby | women.rugby".
  6. ^ "Ángela del Pan, ex Leona of XV and Seven, Technical Coordinator of the FER" (in Spanish). FERugby. 2019-11-08.
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