Ibarzabal has won multiple Spanish national titles (800 m indoors and outdoors).
In February 2021, after she overcame a significant injury, 26-year-old Lorea Ibarzabal won her first national title, with a victory in the 800 metres at the Spanish Indoor Championships.
[1] In February 2023, she ran the second-fastest time by a Spanish woman ever in the indoor 800 m, clocking 2:01.00 in Metz.
It was the Ibarzabal's first major competition representing Spain, and she said that the semi-final was additionally emotional for her as she was competing on the birthday of her running partner Bea, who had died four months earlier.
[9][10] Ibarzabal was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria but is now based in Madrid and trains in Valladolid.