Rayderley Zapata
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_2015.jpg) Zapata at the 2015 European Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Ray | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 May 1993 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Las Palmas, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2015-present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Isla Lanzarote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Fernando Siscar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Zapata (floor) - double front tucked 1½ twist (F [0.6]) Zapata II (floor) - double front layout 1½ twist (H [0.8]) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana (born 26 May 1993) is a Spanish artistic gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic silver medalist on the floor exercise. He is also the 2015 World bronze medalist and the 2015 European Games champion on the floor exercise. He also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he finished seventh on the floor exercise.
Career
[edit]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]
Eponymous skills
[edit]Zapata has two difficult tumbling passes named after him in the Code of Points. The first is a double forward flip in a tucked position with a 1.5 twist. The second is the same skill in a layout position.[6]
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty[a] | Added to Code of Points |
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| Floor exercise | Zapata | Double salto fwd. tucked with 3/2 turn | F | |
| Zapata II | Double salto fwd. str. with 3/2 turn | H | 2021 Doha World Cup[7] |
- ^ Valid for the 2022–2024 Code of Points
References
[edit]- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "2022 – 2024 Code of Points Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Newly named for their creators, these Men's elements are the opposite of elementary". International Gymnastics Federation. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
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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- 1993 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Santo Domingo
- Naturalised citizens of Spain
- Dominican Republic emigrants to Spain
- Sportspeople of Dominican Republic descent
- Spanish male artistic gymnasts
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- Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
- European Games medalists in gymnastics
- European Games gold medalists for Spain
- Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics
- Gymnasts at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
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- Olympic silver medalists for Spain
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- Gymnasts at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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