Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana (born 26 May 1993) is a Spanish artistic gymnast.
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| Full name | Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 May 1993 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Las Palmas, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Isla Lanzarote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Fernando Siscar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Zapata (floor) - double front tucked 1½ twist (G [0.7]) Zapata 2 (floor) - double front layout 1½ twist (I [0.9]) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born in the Dominican Republic, when he was a child his family moved to the Spanish island of Lanzarote. Later, in 2010 he moved to Barcelona to receive further training with Gervasio Deferr and Víctor Cano.[2]
He won the gold medal in the men's floor exercise at the 2015 European Games, and bronze at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow.[3] Zapata was also selected to compete for the Spanish squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, missing out of the final by almost two tenths of a point during the qualifying phase of his signature apparatus.[1][4] Zapata won a silver medal for Spain in the men's floor exercise event of the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.[5]
Zapata also has one of the three most difficult elements in men's artistic gymnastics named after him called the Zapata 2 on floor, or double front layout with 1+1⁄2 twist, with the other two elements are the Miyachi on high bar and Nagornyy on floor to be assigned the highest difficulty value of I (0.9). Zapata also owns the Zapata on floor, which is a double front tucked with 1+1⁄2 twist and assigned a difficulty value of G (0.7).
Notes
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edit- ^ a b c "Rayderley Zapata". Rio 2016 Olympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
- ^ "Entrevista con Ray Zapata, nuestro guerrero se prepara pa..." Sportlife (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "2015 World Gymnastics Championships athletes - Zapata Rayderley". 2015worldgymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ^ "Gymnastics: Men's Qualification Subdivision 3 Results". Rio 2016 Olympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
- ^ "Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat makes history, nabs gold medal at Tokyo Olympics". Haaretz. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
External links
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- Rayderley Miguel Zapata at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Rayderley Miguel Zapata at Olympics.com
- Rayderley Miguel Zapata Santana at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
- Rayderley Miguel Zapata Santana at the Comité Olímpico Español (new page) (in Spanish)
- Ray Zapata at Olympedia
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