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| Born | 26 November 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Eponymous skills | Carballo (horizontal bar) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jesús Carballo (born 26 November 1976) is a Spanish former gymnast. He is a two-time World Champion on horizontal bar. Carballo represented Spain at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He reached the horizontal bar final at the 1996 Olympics and finished in seventh place.
At the 1996 World Championships, Carballo won the gold medal on horizontal bar, marking Spain's first World Championship medal. He won a second World title on horizontal bar at the 1999 World Championships. In 2010, he was named head of the Spanish Gymnastics Federation.
Carballo won all-around and horizontal bar gold at the 1997 Mediterranean Games, in addition to winning silver with the Spanish team.
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