Daniel Sarmiento Melián

Daniel Sarmiento Melián (born 25 August 1983) is a Spanish retired handballer, who last played for Wisła Płock and the Spanish national team.

He was part of the Spanish team that won the world title on home soil in 2013.

Career Sarmiento started playing handball at his home town club. He later joined the biggest club on Gran Canaria, BM Gáldar, where he debuted in the Liga ASOBAL. In 2003, he joined Ciudad de Almería, after Gáldar had to declare bankruptcy. After four years, he joined Ademar León in 2007 to replace Claus Møller Jakobsen.

In 2009, he joined FC Barcelona. Here, he won the league title 6 times in a row from 2011 to 2016, as well as the EHF Champions League in 2010-11 and 2014-15.

In 2016, he joined French side Saint-Raphaël Var Handball. After 6 years in France, he retired from professional handball.

In August 2022, he unretired to join Polish team Wisła Płock to replace Niko Mindegía and Gergő Fazekas, who had left the club. He stayed until the end of the year.

In 2024, he unretired for a second time to join Desatascos Jumbo Gáldar in the third tier of Spanish handball.

National team In 2013, he won the 2013 World Championship at home. At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, he won bronze medals with the Spanish team. At the 2022 European Championship, he won silver medals, playing 4 out of 9 games. Spain lost to Sweden in the final.