Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana (born May 26, 1993) is a Spanish male

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of Dominican Republic origin, and a member of the national team. He won the gold medal in the men's floor exercise at the

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, and bronze at the

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in Glasgow. Zapata was also selected to compete for the Spanish squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, missing out of the final by almost two tenths of a point from the qualifying phase of his signature apparatus exercise. Zapata won a silver medal for Spain in the men's floor exercise event of the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Zapata also has one of the three most difficult elements in men's artistic gymnastics named after him called the ''Zapata 2'' on floor, or double front layout with twist, with the other two elements are the ''Miyachi'' on high bar and ''Nagornyy'' on floor to be assigned the highest difficulty value of I (0.9). Zapata also owns the ''Zapata'' on floor, which is a double front tucked with twist and assigned a difficulty value of G (0.7).

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* * * * * 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Santo Domingo Naturalised citizens of Spain Spanish people of Dominican Republic descent Sportspeople of Dominican Republic descent Spanish male artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Las Palmas Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in gymnastics European Games gold medalists for Spain Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Spain Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in gymnastics Olympic silver medalists for Spain 21st-century Spanish people {{Spain-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub