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

Career

Corral participated at the

2010 Central American and Caribbean Games The 21st Central American and Caribbean Games (Spanish: ''XXI Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe, Mayagüez 2010'') took place in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, from 18 July 2010 to 1 August 2010. Bid It was understood that Mayagüez was going to b ...

where he won the silver medal at the team competition and the bronze medal at the vault final. He then competed at the 2011

Pan-American Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...

, where he achieved two gold medals in the pommel horse and parallel bars finals. He qualified for the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

individual all-around competition, where he placed 4th at the

2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event The 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event took place between January 10 and January 18, 2012. The event featured the artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and Trampolining, trampoline disciplines. It qualified the last four artistic gymnastics tea ...

, he also achieved the gold medal in the parallel bars final in the same event. In 2013 at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships held in

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he participated and qualified in 2nd place to the Pommel Horse final, where he tied with British gymnast

Max Whitlock Max Antony Whitlock (born 13 January 1993) is an English artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and World Championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in British history. He is also the most successful pomme ...

for the silver medal with a score of 15.633, thereby becoming the first Mexican gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships. In 2019, although he did not qualify for any finals, he earned a qualification spot to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Corral, Daniel 1990 births Mexican male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Mexico Sportspeople from Ensenada, Baja California Living people Gymnasts at the 2015 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games bronze medalists in gymnastics Pan American Games gold medalists in gymnastics Summer World University Games medalists in gymnastics Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games FISU World University Games silver medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Mexican sportsmen