Leire Iglesias Armiño[a] (born 7 April 1978 in Bilbao, Vizcaya) is a Spanish judoka, who played for the middleweight category.

In the preliminaries, she first defeated Brazil's Mayra Aguiar, and eventually upset world champion Gévrise Émane, who was considered a top medal contender in this event.

[2] She reached only into the quarterfinal round, where she lost by an automatic ippon to German judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Annett Böhm.

[3] Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Iglesias offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Ukraine's Nataliya Smal and Colombia's Yuri Alvear in the repechage rounds.

She finished in fifth place, after losing out the bronze medal match to Dutch judoka and former silver medalist Edith Bosch, who successfully scored an ippon at three minutes and fourteen seconds.