Daniel Corral

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Daniel Corral
Full nameDaniel Corral Barrón
Born (1990-01-25) 25 January 1990
Ensenada, Mexico
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Gymnastics career
Country
represented		 Mexico
Medal record
Men's gymnastics
Representing  Mexico
World Championships
2013 Antwerp Pommel Horse
Summer Universiade
2013 Kazan Pommel Horse
Pan American Games
2011 Guadalajara Pommel Horse
2011 Guadalajara Parallel Bars
2015 Toronto Pommel Horse
Central American and Caribbean Games
2006 Cartagena Team
2010 Mayagüez Team
2006 Cartagena Floor Exercise
2010 Mayagüez Vault
2014 Veracruz Rings
2014 Veracruz Parallel Bars

Daniel Corral Barrón[a] (born 25 January 1990) is a Mexican gymnast.

Career

Corral participated at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games where he won the silver medal at the team competition and the bronze medal at the vault final.[1] He then competed at the 2011 Pan-American Games, where he achieved two gold medals in the pommel horse and parallel bars finals.[2] He qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics individual all-around competition, where he placed 4th at the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event, he also achieved the gold medal in the parallel bars final in the same event.[3]

In 2013 at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships held in Antwerp he participated and qualified in 2nd place to the Pommel Horse final, where he tied with British gymnast Max Whitlock for the silver medal with a score of 15.633, thereby becoming the first Mexican gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships.[4]

In 2019, although he did not qualify for any finals, he earned a qualification spot to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Corral and the second or maternal family name is Barrón.

References

  1. ^ "Biografía y resultados" [Biography and results]. Mayaguez2010.com (in Spanish).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ^ "Artistic Gymnastics Results - CORRAL Daniel". Guadalajara2011.org.mx. 25 January 1990. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  3. ^ "El mexicano Daniel Corral logra el oro en el Preolímpico de Londres" [Mexican Daniel Corral takes gold at Pre-Olympic in London]. Mexico.CNN.com (in Spanish). 13 January 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  4. ^ "44th ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Antwerp (BEL) - Men's Apparatus Final" (PDF). FedIntGym.com. International Gymnastics Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
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