Daniel Flores (sailor)
Personal information | |
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Full name | Daniel Alejandro Flores Peréz |
Nationality | |
Born | Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela | 17 October 1981
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Sailing career | |
Class | Sailboard |
Club | Cumaná Windsurf Club[1] |
Coach | Juan Manuel Moreno[1] |
Daniel Alejandro Flores Peréz (born 17 October 1981 in Cumaná, Sucre) is a Venezuelan windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class.[1][2] He represented Venezuela at the 2012 Summer Olympics and has also been training for Cumaná Windsurf Club under his personal coach and mentor Juan Manuel Moreno.[1] As of September 2013, Flores is ranked no. 31 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation.
Flores made his official debut at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he finished sixth in the men's sailboard class with a net score of 52, narrowly missing out a spot for the medal race by a single point.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Flores competed in the RS:X class having received a birth by his result from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.[3] Struggling to attain a top position in the opening series, Flores climbed an astonishing sixteenth position on the final leg, but came up short with an accumulated net score of 252 points and a thirty-first-place finish in a fleet of thirty-eight windsurfers.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Daniel Flores". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daniel Flores". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ^ "Finals Series Underway At RS:X Worlds". ISAF. 27 March 2012. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ^ "Men's RS:X". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Daniel Flores se fajó en la última regata" [Daniel Flores wraps up his final race] (in Spanish). El Universal (Caracas). 5 August 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
External links
[edit]- Daniel Flores at World Sailing
- Daniel Flores at Olympics.com
- Daniel Flores at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Daniel Flores at Olympic.org (archived)
- Daniel Flores at Olympedia
- Daniel Flores at the NBC 2012 Olympics website at archive.today (archived 11 September 2013)
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Olympic sailors for Venezuela
- Venezuelan male sailors (sport)
- Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – RS:X
- Sailors at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Sportspeople from Cumaná
- Sailors at the 2015 Pan American Games
- South American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
- South American Games medalists in sailing
- Competitors at the 2010 South American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Venezuela
- 21st-century Venezuelan people
- Venezuelan windsurfers