ZAPATA Rayderley

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 26 May 1993

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.68/5'6''

Place of birth: SANTO DOMINGO

Birth Country:

Dominican Republic

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Men's Floor Exercise	2
	Men's Vault

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Floor	Men's Floor Exercise Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	FX
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	11

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	SR	AA	Team
2018	Doha, QAT	21	-	-	-	52	-	11
2015	Glasgow, GBR	3	-	-	185	28	-	13
2014	Nanning, CHN	8	13	188	116	189	162	16

European Championships

Year	Location	FX	Team
2019	Szczecin, POL	6	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	7	6
2017	Cluj-Napoca, ROU	6	-

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	FX	VT	SR
2019/2020	3 x 2nd	1 x 8th	1 x 17th
2017/2018	1 x 16th	-	1 x 8th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Doha, QAT	14.933
2	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Cottbus, GER	14.800
2	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Doha, QAT	14.433
3	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Baku, AZE	14.500
3	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.500
5	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.033
8	2019/2020	Vault	Doha, QAT	13.566
8	2017/2018	Rings	Baku, AZE	9.666
16	2017/2018	Floor Exercise	Baku, AZE	12.500
17	2019/2020	Rings	Baku, AZE	13.366

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Ray (lanzarotedeportiva.com, 10 Aug 2018)

Occupation:

Daughter Olympia [2021]

Languages spoken:

Club de Gimnasia Isla de Lanzarote [ESP] / TuS Vinnhorst [GER]

Benjamin Bango [national]; Fernando Siscar [national]

2014 for Spain, World Cup (elpais.com, 11 Jun 2015)

He underwent ankle surgery in August 2020 to remove bone fragments that caused him pain when vaulting. He returned to training after one month. (mundodeportivo.com, 25 Aug 2020; elpais.com, 20 Sep 2020)

In September 2017 he tore his right Achilles tendon while warming up for the final of the floor exercise at the 2017 World Cup event in Paris, France. The injury ruled him out of action for nine months. (as.com, 03 Apr 2019; marca.com, 05 Jun 2018; as.com, 18 Sep 2017)

He took up gymnastics at age 11 in Lanzarote, Spain. (marca.com, 16 Apr 2015)

He saw one of his sister's friends practising and decided he wanted to try the sport. (mundodeportivo.com, 20 Jun 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (elpais.com, 20 Sep 2020)

Competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (sport.es, 11 Jul 2020)

Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr. (avancedeportivo.es, 26 Jun 2015)

General Interest

General
MENTORS
At age 17 he considered quitting the sport as people told him he was too old to the sport. At the time he was training at the High Performance Training Centre in Sant Cugat, Spain, where he met coaches and former gymnasts Gervasio Deferr and Victor Cano. "They both were my saviours, because at the time I was told I was too old at age 17-18 to practise gymnastics. Deferr was retiring at the time and becoming a coach. They both liked me, bet on me and here I am. They helped me to develop my basic training which I lacked in order to keep on going forwards. Without them I wouldn't be here." (sport.es, 11 Jul 2020)

MOVE TO SPAIN
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at age nine he moved to Lanzarote, Spain. (cronicasdelanzarote.es, 25 Jun 2018; elpais.com, 11 Jun 2015)

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Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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