Anni Espar

Anna Espar Llaquet (born 8 January 1993) is a Spanish female water polo player who won the gold medal at the 2013 FINA World Championships.

Espar also played on the Spain national water polo team which won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was the second-leading goal scorer in the event with 15 goals and named to the Olympic All-Star Team.

Espar was named the Best European Female Water Polo Player of 2012 by the LEN.

Espar joined the University of Southern California women's water polo team in 2012.

In 2013 she won the NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship in the longest match in championship game history. Espar scored the winning goal in the third sudden-death overtime period.

As a Freshman she was named to the ACWPC All-America First Team, All-MPSF First Team, MPSF All-Newcomer Team and MPSF Player of the Week on 25 February after scoring 8 goals in her first major tournament as a Trojan.

• 01 ! 2011 FINA Junior World Championships, Trieste, Italy, 1st place.
• 02 ! 2012 Olympic Games, London, United Kingdom, 2nd place.
• 01 ! 2013 FINA World Championships, Barcelona, Spain, 1st place.
• 02 ! 2013 FINA Junior World Championships, Volos, Greece, 2nd place.
• 01 ! 2014 European Championship, Budapest, Hungary. 1st place.
• 03 ! 2014 FINA World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 3rd place.
• 02 ! 2016 FINA World League, Shanghai, China, 2nd place.

• "Spain on the top of the world" Archived index at the Wayback Machine. fina.org September 18, 2011.
• "USA takes gold after 9-7 win over Spain" fina.org August 25, 2013.
• "World champions Spain also claim European tittle" waterpoloworld.com July 24, 2014.
• "USA retains World Cup crown with repeat win over Australia" fina.org August 17, 2014.
• "USA crowned World League Champion for third consecutive year" fina.org June 12, 2016.