Emilio Merchán
Emilio Merchán Alonso is a Spanish sprint and marathon canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth.
Merchán also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fifth in the Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's K-4 [1000 metres|K-4 1000 m] event at Atlanta in 1996.