El Viti
El Viti in 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Santiago Martín Sánchez |
| Nickname(s) | El Viti; Su Majestad |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Born | 18 July 1938 Vitigudino, Salamanca, Spain |
| Monument(s) | Sculptures at Salamanca and Vitigudino, latter in square bearing his name |
| Home town | Salamanca, Spain |
| Occupation | Bullfighter |
| Years active | 1956–1979 |
| Agent | Florentino Díaz Martín (1959–1975) Pedro Balañá (1976–) (apoderados) |
| Spouse |
Mari Carmen García Cobaleda
(m. 1968; died 2022) |
| Children | Guadalupe Martín García Marisa Martín García Francisco Martín García |
| Parents |
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| Relative(s) | Bernardino García Fonseca (father-in-law) Eusebia Cobaleda Galache (mother-in-law) |
| Other interests | Livestock raising (mainly Spanish Fighting Bulls) |
Santiago Martín Sánchez (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo maɾˈtin ˈsantʃeθ]; born 18 July 1938), known as El Viti (Spanish: [el ˈβiti]), is a retired Spanish bullfighter. He holds the record for the greatest number of times that any bullfighter has been borne on shoulders out through the Great Gate at the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid (the greatest honour in the bullfighting world), namely fourteen as a matador, and two others while he was still a novillero.