José María Merchán Illanes[a] (born 7 July 1976 in Seville) is a Spanish triathlete.

[1] Merchan competed in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney 2000.

He did not finish the competition because of a fall in the bicycle sector.

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