Maider Telleria

Maider Tellería (full name Maider Tellería Goñi, born 1973 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa) is a Spanish former field hockey player who won the gold medal with the Spanish women's team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and represented Spain at four consecutive Olympic Games.

Olympic career

Tellería won her Olympic gold at 19, in the women's field hockey tournament at the 1992 Barcelona Games, where Spain finished first¹. The victory was the first Olympic gold by a Spanish women's team in a team sport, and the Spanish women's hockey teams of both sexes have not repeated it since³. She was one of four Basque players from Real Sociedad in the squad, alongside Silvia Manrique, Teresa Motos, and Nagore Gabellanes⁴.

She stayed with the national program far longer than her 1992 teammates. Spain placed 8th at Atlanta 1996, 4th at Sydney 2000, and 10th at Athens 2004, giving her four Olympic appearances¹. A 2002 report in El País noted that she was the only member of the 1992 gold-medal squad still in the national team preparing for what would be her fourth Games in Athens⁵. At Athens she wore shirt number 12 in a Spain squad coached by Pablo Usoz⁶.

International record

The International Hockey Federation's database records 45 senior international caps and 6 goals for Spain between her first match on 27 July 1992 and her last on 26 August 2004². Beyond the Olympics she played at the 1994 Women's World Cup in Dublin, the 1995 Champions Trophy in Mar del Plata, the 2001 Rabobank Champions Trophy in Amstelveen, and the 2002 Women's World Cup in Perth².

Life after playing

While still playing she combined sport with teaching, working as a schoolteacher in San Sebastián and playing club hockey for Lagunac⁵; a later interview in the Basque-language magazine Argia described her teaching physical education at the Zurriola ikastola, the school she had attended as a child⁷.

References

1. Maider Tellería, Olympedia
2. TELLERIA Maider, International Hockey Federation TMS
3. "¡Estábamos hechas unas bestias!", El País, 6 August 2022
4. Cuatro txuri-urdines hicieron historia con sus 'sticks', Deia, 4 July 2021
5. Las vidas de los medallistas, El País, 22 July 2002
6. 2004 Womens Olympic Games, Team Details Spain, FIH TMS
7. Maider Telleria interview, Argia no. 1926, 11 January 2004

Initially written Oct 20, 2026 · Edited: Oct 25, 2026

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