Daniel Corral

For the American composer and musician, see Daniel Corral (composer).
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Corral and the second or maternal family name is Barrón.
Daniel Corral
 Gymnast 
Full name Daniel Corral Barrón
Country represented  Mexico
Born (1990-01-25) 25 January 1990
Ensenada, Mexico
Hometown Ensenada
Height 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)

Daniel Corral Barrón (born 25 January 1990 in Ensenada) is a Mexican gymnast.

Career

He 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] In 2012 he qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to the individual all-around competition, when he finished 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]

References

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