{{short description|Andorran skier and rally driver (born 1966)}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox WRC driver | name = Albert Llovera | image = Albert Llovera.jpg | caption = Llovera during 2011 Rally Catalunya. | nationality = {{flag|Andorra|name=Andorran}} | full_name = Albert Llovera Massana | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|09|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = | years = 2001 &ndash; 2002, 2005&ndash;2006, 2008&ndash;2012 | codriver = {{flagicon|ESP}} Marc Corral<br />{{flagicon|ESP}} Lucas Cruz<br />{{flagicon|ESP}} Diego Vallejo<br />{{flagicon|ESP}} Borja Rozada<br />{{flagicon|ESP}} Marc Martí | teams = | races = 29 | championships = 0 | wins = 0 | podiums = 0 | stagewins = 0 | points = 0 | first_race = 2001 Rally Catalunya | last_race = 2012 Rally Catalunya | updated = 20 July 2018 }}

'''Albert Llovera Massana'''{{family name footnote|lang=Catalan|Llovera|Massana}} (born 11 September 1966) is a rally driver and former alpine skier from Andorra. He became the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics in 1984 at the age of 17.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ll/albert-llovera-1.html |title=Albert Llovera |access-date=20 March 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418080625/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ll/albert-llovera-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |quote=Full name: Albert Llovera Massana}}</ref> A serious accident in 1985 left him paralysed from the waist down. He has since taken up rallying, using cars with specially adapted hand controls. He is currently competing in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.

==Career== [[File:Rally Finland 2010 - EK 1 - Albert Llovera.jpg|thumb|Llovera during 2010 Rally Finland.]] At the age of 17, Llovera became the youngest ever athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics when he represented Andorra at the 1984 games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.albertllovera.com/en/albert-llovera/piloto |title=Driver |work=albertllovera.com |accessdate=20 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327231314/http://www.albertllovera.com/en/albert-llovera/piloto |archivedate=27 March 2012}}</ref> In the following year, 1985, whilst competing in the European Ski Cup, also in Sarajevo, he suffered a serious accident which left him using a wheelchair with paraplegia beginning at lower back level.

Llovera turned to motorsport, first competing on quad bikes and then starting in rallying. In 1989, he won the Peugeot Rally Cup in Andorra. In 2001, with the support of Fiat, he began competing in the Junior World Rally Championship in a Fiat Punto S1600. He continued in the championship in 2002.

After competing in Spain along with selected WRC appearances, Llovera returned full-time to the world stage in 2010 to contest the Super 2000 World Rally Championship in a Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000. He finished fifth in class on his first event Rally Mexico. He scored a best overall result of 17th on Rally Catalunya, which was not a round of the SWRC.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ewrc-results.com/profile.php?profile=274 |title=Driver profile - Albert Llovera |work=eWRC-results.com |publisher=eWRC.cz |accessdate=20 July 2011}}</ref>

Llovera continued in the SWRC in 2011, finishing fourth in the category in Jordan.

In 2020, Llovera would be competing the Dakar rally in an Iveco truck from the Dutch Team de Rooy.

==Complete WRC results== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" ! Year ! Entrant ! Car ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! WDC ! Points |- | 2001 ! Pronto Racing ! Fiat Punto S1600 | MON | SWE | POR |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>Ret</small> | ARG | CYP |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GRE<br /><small>Ret</small> | KEN |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>79</small> | NZL |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ITA<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FRA<br /><small>39</small> | AUS |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GBR<br /><small>Ret</small> | | ! NC ! 0 |- | 2002 ! Albert Llovera ! Fiat Punto S1600 |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| MON<br /><small>Ret</small> | SWE | FRA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>33</small> | CYP | ARG |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GRE<br /><small>Ret</small> | KEN | FIN |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GER<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ITA<br /><small>33</small> | NZL | AUS | GBR | | ! NC ! 0 |- | 2005 ! Albert Llovera ! Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | MON | SWE | MEX | NZL | ITA | CYP | TUR | GRE | ARG |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>32</small> | GER | GBR | JPN | FRA | ESP | AUS ! NC ! 0 |- | 2006 ! Albert Llovera ! Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | MON | SWE | MEX |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>36</small> | FRA | ARG | ITA | GRE | GER |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>54</small> | JPN | CYP | TUR | AUS | NZL | GBR ! NC ! 0 |- | 2008 ! Albert Llovera ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 | MON | SWE | MEX | ARG | JOR | ITA | GRE | TUR | FIN | GER | NZL |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>Ret</small> | FRA | JPN | GBR | ! NC ! 0 |- | 2009 ! PCR Sport ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 | IRE | NOR | CYP | POR | ARG | ITA | GRE | POL | FIN | AUS |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>42</small> | GBR | | | | ! NC ! 0 |- | 2010 ! Albert Llovera ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX<br /><small>22</small> | JOR | TUR |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| NZL<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POR<br /><small>41</small> | BUL |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| GER<br /><small>35</small> | JPN |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FRA<br /><small>47</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>17</small> | GBR | | | ! NC ! 0 |- | 2011 ! Albert Llovera ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 | SWE | MEX | POR |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| JOR<br /><small>17</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ITA<br /><small>Ret</small> | ARG |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| GRE<br /><small>24</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GER<br /><small>Ret</small> | AUS |style="background:#FFFFFF;"| FRA<br /><small>DNS</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP<br/><small>40</small> | GBR | | | ! NC ! 0 |- | 2012 ! PCR Sport ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | GRE | NZL | FIN | GER | GBR | FRA | ITA |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>Ret</small> | | | ! NC ! 0 |- |}

===JWRC Results=== {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;" |- ! Year ! Entrant ! Car ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! JWRC ! Points |- | 2001 ! Pronto Racing ! Fiat Punto S1600 |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GRE<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>7</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ITA<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FRA<br /><small>13</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GBR<br /><small>Ret</small> ! NC ! 0 |- | 2002 ! Albert Llovera ! Fiat Punto S1600 |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| MON<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>12</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GRE<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GER<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ITA<br /><small>16</small> | GBR ! NC ! 0 |- |}

===SWRC results===

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;" |- ! Year ! Entrant ! Car ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! SWRC ! Points |- | 2010 ! Albert Llovera ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 | SWE |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| MEX<br /><small>5</small> | JOR |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| NZL<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| POR<br /><small>10</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GER<br /><small>8</small> | JPN |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| FRA<br /><small>9</small> | GBR ! 13th ! 17 |- | 2011 ! Albert Llovera ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 | MEX |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| JOR<br /><small>4</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ITA<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GRE<br /><small>9</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| FIN<br /><small>Ret</small> |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GER<br /><small>Ret</small> | FRA |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| ESP<br /><small>8</small> | | ! 10th ! 18 |- | 2012 ! PCR Sport ! Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 | MON | SWE | POR | NZL | FIN | GBR | FRA |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ESP<br /><small>Ret</small> | | ! NC ! 0 |- |}

==Notes== {{Notelist}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327231320/http://www.albertllovera.com/en |title=Official website}} * {{Olympics.com|albert-llovera|org_archive=20161006210753}} * {{Olympedia|89696}}

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