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José de Amezola was born in Urkabustaiz, the first Basque athlete to win the medal at the Olympic Games

150
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09 January 1874,

Born in Urkabustaiz José de Amezola, the first Basque athlete to win the medal at the Olympic Games. He participated in the 1900 Games, acquiring gold as a player in pairs with the Cantabrian Juan de Villota. He is the first Basque to win that medal, but he had an easy victory: the match was unique against Durquetty and Etchegaray, Basques from the North, but these refused to play. Amezola also worked in politics and was a member of the Conservative Party in the Spanish Congress.

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He won the first medal at the Olympic Games, being buried in Artziniega (Aiaraldea, 14 August 2016).

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