Rayderley Zapata

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Rayderley Zapata
Rayderley Zapata (ESP) 2015.jpg
Zapata at the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Full nameMiguel Rayderley Zapata Santana
Nickname(s)Ray
Country representedFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Born (1993-05-26) 26 May 1993 (age 31)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Hometown Lanzarote, Spain
Residence Madrid, Spain
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior international elite
Years on national team2014 – present
ClubIsla 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])
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Floor exercise
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Glasgow Floor exercise
European Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Baku Floor exercise
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Tarragona Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 TarragonaFloor exercise
FIG World Cup
Event1st2nd3rd
Apparatus World Cup033
World Challenge Cup002
Total035

Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana (born 26 May 1993) is a Spanish-Domincan 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.

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Early life

Born in the Dominican Republic, his family moved to the Spanish island of Lanzarote when he was a child. Later, in 2010, he moved to Barcelona to receive further training with Gervasio Deferr and Víctor Cano. [2] [3]

Career

2014–15

At the 2014 Cottbus World Cup, Zapata won his first FIG World Cup medal- a bronze on the vault. [4] He finished eighth on the floor exercise at the 2014 World Championships. [5] After the World Championships, he competed at the Mexican Open and placed tenth in the all-around. [6]

At the 2015 European Championships, Zapata initially placed sixth in the floor exercise, but he was allowed to repeat his routine due to a timing error. He then received a score that would have won the bronze medal, but the judges later added an out-of-bounds deduction they had initially missed, and he ultimately finished fifth. [7] [8] He then won the gold medal on the floor exercise at the 2015 European Games. [9] Then at the 2015 World Championships, he won the bronze medal on the floor exercise and as a result qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. [10]

2016–18

Zapata won a silver medal on the floor exercise at the 2016 Cottbus World Cup behind Japan's Naoto Hayasaka. [11] He helped the Spanish team finish eighth at the 2016 European Championships. [12] He then represented Spain at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was the second reserve for the floor exercise final. [13] [14]

Zapata finished sixth on the floor exercise at the 2017 European Championships. [15] He returned to competition after a torn Achilles tendon at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and won gold medals with the Spanish team and on the floor exercise. [16] [17] At the 2018 European Championships, he helped the Spanish team place sixth, [18] and he also finished seventh on the floor exercise. [19] He won bronze medals on the floor exercise at the 2018 World Challenge Cups in Guimarães and Paris. [20] [21]

2019–21

Zapata tied with Great Britain's Dominick Cunningham for the floor exercise bronze medal at the 2019 Melbourne World Cup. [22] He won another floor exercise bronze medal at the 2019 Baku World Cup. [23] He also won silver medals at the Doha and Cottbus World Cups. [24] [25] At the 2019 European Championships, he finished sixth in the floor exercise final. [26]

Zapata won a silver medal on the floor exercise at the 2021 Doha World Cup. [27] He secured an Olympic berth with his results from the prior two years of the FIG World Cup series. [28] At the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Zapata qualified for the floor exercise final in first place. In the final, he tied with Israel's Artem Dolgopyat for the highest score with 14.933. For the first tiebreaker, Zapata and Dolgopyat had the same execution score, but Dolgopyat prevailed on the second tiebreaker because he had a higher difficulty score. Zapata thus received the silver medal. [29] [30]

2022–24

Zapata helped the Spanish team finish eighth at the 2022 European Championships. [31] He was the first reserve for the floor exercise final. [32] Zapata and the Spanish team then finished sixth at the World Championships in Liverpool. [33]

On 16 March 2023, Zapata and other members of the Spanish national team were involved in a car accident during a training camp in Anadia, Portugal. The wheel on their van exploded, causing it to roll over multiple times, but Zapata was not severely injured. [34] [35] At the 2023 European Championships, he was the third reserve for botht the rings and vault finals. [36] [37] Then at the 2023 World Championships, he helped the team finish in ninth place, which made them the first reserve for the team final and allowed them to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [38]

Zapata was selected to represent Spain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Néstor Abad, Thierno Diallo, Nicolau Mir, and Joel Plata. [39] The team finished 12th in the qualification round, and Zapata qualified for the floor exercise final in third place. [40] He stepped out of bounds during the floor final and finished in seventh place. [41]

Eponymous skills

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. [42]

ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficulty [a] Added to Code of Points
Floor exerciseZapataDouble salto fwd. tucked with 3/2 turnF
Zapata IIDouble salto fwd. str. with 3/2 turnH 2021 Doha World Cup [43]
  1. ↑ Valid for the 2022–2024 Code of Points

Personal life

Zapata has a daughter Olympia, born in 2021, and a son Kayro, born in 2023, with his wife Susana. [3]

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