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Name and family
The FAN note of 16 March 2016 calls him Alfonso Wucherpfennig Gaminde. Real Club Mediterráneo on 21 December 2024, Diario Sur on 19 April 2021 and La Voz de Málaga on 20 December 2024 write Wucherpfennig. Another FAN note, of 5 January 2016, writes Wucherpfening. 101TV, on 20 December 2024, writes Wucherpfenning. The surname used here is Wucherpfennig.
Real Club Mediterráneo, 21 December 2024: a board member; he began at the club as a swimmer and water-polo player and coached both. The note calls Amparo Simón his wife, the first Spanish woman to officiate nationally and internationally and a board member, and Alfonso and Bárbara their children, swimmers and water-polo players. Born in Málaga 69 years before the date of that note, and the first person in his family born in Málaga. His grandfather and his father ran the Los Guindos lead foundry.
On 20 December 2024 La Voz de Málaga gives Málaga, 1955, and calls him a technical architect with a master’s in sports-facility management. On 19 April 2021 Diario Sur, writing about the son (Málaga, 1984, then president of Club Waterpolo Málaga), says the father, of the same name, officiated at four Games and was on the lane where Michael Phelps won one of his eight golds at Beijing 2008. The paper calls him, at that date, chairman of European Championships.
Officiating
FAN, 16 March 2016: a FINA international referee since 1985 and a member of the LEN technical committee since 1995. A judge at Barcelona 1992, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012. At that date the note speaks of three World Championships, without naming them, and of more than 30 European championships. Vice-president of the national referees’ committee, a member of the RFEN facilities committee and a former FAN delegate in Málaga. An athlete, a coach and a referee in swimming and in water polo. Alejandro Blanco presented the Olympic insignia.
La Voz de Málaga, 20 December 2024: the city council gave him the star for sporting merit. The ceremony was that Friday at the José María Martín Carpena sports palace and then on the Paseo de las Estrellas, with mayor Francisco de la Torre and sports councillor Borja Vivas. The report credits him with four decades as an international referee and as a member of the technical committees of the world and European federations, and with seven World Championships: Madrid 1986, Palma 1992, Barcelona 2003, Montreal 2005, Barcelona 2013, Melbourne 2022 and Doha 2024.
The same report lists meet direction: seven European championships (Madrid absolute 2004, Palma junior 2006, Málaga water polo 2008, Cádiz masters 2009, Copenhagen 2017, Glasgow 2018 and Rome 2022), two European Youth Festivals (2011 and 2016), national junior championships, the 2005 Mediterranean Games and the 2019 Sette Colli in Rome. Also more than thirty European championships and more than forty Spanish and Andalusian championships, and the gold insignia of the European swimming federation and of the Spanish Olympic Committee, plus the RFEN gold medal for distinguished service. Real Club Mediterráneo confirms the four Games, the figure of seven World Championships without listing them, and those three honours.
José Eduardo Hernández, in the FAN interview of 24 February 2022, names him among the presidents of the FAN referees’ committee, with Nicasio García and Lorenzo Ruiz, and as co-author of the book already cited.
The number of World Championships does not match. On 16 March 2016 the FAN speaks of three, without naming them. On 20 December 2024 La Voz de Málaga lists seven, and five of those meets are from before 2016. It is left unresolved. None of the sources used here calls him the father of swimming in Málaga. The one that calls him a father is Diario Sur, and it means the father of Alfonso Wucherpfennig junior.