Daniel Corral
Mexican gymnast (born 1990)
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Daniel Corral Barrón[a] (born 25 January 1990) is a Mexican gymnast.
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| Full name | Daniel Corral Barrón | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 January 1990 Ensenada, Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country represented | Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Corral and the second or maternal family name is Barrón.
