He was born on November 7, 1980 in Barcelona. Son of Argentine emigrants who escaped from their country after the military coup of 1976.

In the year 92 he entered the CAR of San Cugat del Vallés.

The seven hours of daily training led him to drop out of school when he was 17 years old.

He excelled at the world championships in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1997, when he finished seventh in the hands-free event.

In 1998 he was proclaimed junior European champion on the ground in St. Petersburg (Russia). Silver in the European Championship of Bremen, in 2000, in the modality of soil. He had a good performance in the Tiajin World Championship 99 ‘where he became runner-up in the test of the floor after the Russian Alexei Nemov. In Sydney 2000, an error in the last acrobatic series in his floor exercise left him out of the medal table.

He was in third place in his specialty, the colt, in the World Cup held in Stuttgart in 2000. Gold jump in Sydney. At the World Cup in Debrecen (Hungary) in 2002 he achieved silver on the ground, although they were withdrawn shortly thereafter after testing positive for doping control. Gold jump in the Athens Games. On August 23, 2004, Gervasio Deferr achieved the first Spanish gold in Athens in the jump final. He went out to secure and got a 9,687 in his first jump that already augured good omens, to later nail the second and placed in first position. He announced his withdrchemamartinezl from the competition in January 2011.