In 2025 Spanish sport has had a year full of successes in various disciplines, with protagonists who have known how to leave their mark on both a collective and individual level. Once again Spain says goodbye to a year full of successes, medals, cups, trophies and titles. Carlos Alcaraz, Aitana Bonmatí, Ilia Topuria, Paula Ostiz and María Pérez are some of the names that have brought the Spanish flag to the top of the podium. In Infobae We wanted to review all the sporting successes of 2025.
Spanish women’s football has extended its golden era thanks to the likes of Aitana Bonmatí, who won the Ballon d’Or for the third time. This award is the fifth in a row for Spain, taking into account the two previous awards received Alexia Putellasconsolidates the international reputation of national women’s football. Bonmatí himself explained that this recognition was “not only the result of individual work, but also of collective effort and the quality of the football played in Spain.” In addition, the Catalan won “The Best” award as an individual player for the third time in a row.
The team led by Montse Tomé managed to reach the final European Cupwhere they lost to England, which once again demonstrated the level of the national team. Cata Coll saved two penalties in an agonizing shootout that ultimately went in favor of the British team. After this tournament, Tomé completed her cycle as coach, leaving Sonia Bermúdez to take over the bench. The reward came months later when the team, with much of the same block, won its second consecutive Nations League victory in a party-atmosphere Metropolitano.
Carlitos shone like never before in 2025. The young man from Murcia ended the year as world number one with eight titles and two Grand Slams, one in Roland Garros and the other in the US Open. He won both trophies after intense battles against Jannik Sinner, his big rival of the season. However, the year ended with an unexpected turn of events: the professional separation between Alcaraz and his coach Juan Carlos Ferreroannounced in December after several years of shared success. Now it is Samu López who has taken the reins.
Marc Márquez has achieved what seemed impossible: return to the top after years of injuries and team changes. In 2025, the Cervera driver was crowned MotoGP world champion for the seventh time, adding a total of nine world championship titles. Márquez equaled Valentino Rossi’s number in the premier class and summed up his achievement with the following words: “This title is more than a number, it is the result of six years of struggle and improvement.”
To achieve this, Márquez left Repsol Honda behind and opted for the Gresini team and the Ducati motorcycle, a decision that was crucial to his return to the top podium.
The Andalusian María Pérez has continued her reign in athletic walking, achieving success in Tokyo World gold over both 20 and 35 kilometers. In this way, Pérez becomes the first athlete to retain both world titles after her victories in Budapest 2023. In addition, she added two more titles in the Podebrady European Cup and the European Team Championships in La Coruña. “Winning four medals at two World Championships is not easy. It is also an award from my coach (Jacinto Garzón) from all of Spanish athletics and running, who deserves recognition,” emphasized the athlete, who has set a new points record in the world ranking of track and field walkers.
Iris Tió has led the new golden stage of Spanish artistic swimming. After achieving team bronze in Paris, he took the bronze medal Solo gold at the World Championships in Singapore and added two more titles in free duet and mixed free duet, surpassing the records of legends such as Gemma Mengual and Ona Carbonell.
In the men’s event, Dennis González made history by becoming the first man to reach the podium in a men’s final. artistic team swimming. In Singapore, she won gold in the mixed free duet with Tió, in addition to silver and bronze in other modalities, cementing the discipline’s progress in gender equality.
Paula Ostiz entered international road cycling when she was just 18 years old. This year Ostiz hanged himself Gold and silver in time trials worldwidein addition to conquering European gold in time trials and online. All of this in junior category, which will give her absolute professionalism next season. The young woman from Navarre explained that she approaches the leap into the elite “with humility and a great desire to learn, knowing full well that the level is very high”.
Zaragoza’s Andrés Temiño redeemed himself in 2025 after withdrawing from the Paris Games under pressure. This year he got it Gold at the World Championships in Koreaboth individually and in a mixed team with Elia Canales. In the semifinals he beat Kim Je Deok, the three-time local Olympic champion, and in the final he defeated Brazil’s Marcus D’Almeida by an arrow of ten in a memorable tiebreaker.
Spanish motorsport has celebrated another milestone thanks to Álex Palou. The Catalan driver led the IndyCar with eight victories in 17 races and was named champion of the Indianapolis 500, making himself part of the history of national motorsports. Palou is approaching the absolute winning record in the competition with three titles so far (2021, 2023 and 2024).
After being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the Spanish men’s water polo team is looking to 2025 with renewed determination. The team managed to recover from this setback and achieved one of the greatest successes in its history with the victory World champion in Singapore. This victory adds to the titles won by Spain in Perth 1998, Fukuoka 2001 and Budapest 2022, and brings the national record number of world gold medals to four. In recent years, the Spanish team also won silver in Gwangju 2019 and bronze in Fukuoka 2023 and Doha 2024.
The road to the title in Singapore was marked by an impeccable course: the national team defeated Japan, Australia and Hungary in the group stage, showed its strength against Montenegro with an overwhelming 14:5 in the quarter-finals and eliminated Greece in the semi-finals after winning a controversial penalty shootout (11:9). In the final they met Hungary again and won 15:13, securing the championship with a complete victory. The World Cup in Singapore had a special meaning as it coincided with the farewell of Felipe Perronean emblematic figure of Spanish water polo, who completed a two-decade-long international career full of successes and records.
Ilia Topuria starred in one of the most outstanding moments of 2025 by comfortably winning the fight for the title the UFC lightweight world title. The confrontation, which took place in Las Vegas, lasted little more than two minutes before the Hispanic-Georgian fell to the ground Charles Oliveira with a series of decisive blows. The first round knockout confirmed his dominance in the octagon and lived up to the expectations he himself had raised in the previous round.
With this win, Topuria added his second World crown in various disciplines since winning the featherweight belt in 2024. Only nine fighters in action the history of the UFC They had won titles in two divisions, but neither achieved that feat while remaining undefeated. The power of his performance was reflected in the final sequence: a precise combination of punches left Oliveira with no options and Topuria was one of the big names in international sport this year.
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