Daniel Flores (sailor)

Daniel Flores
Personal information
Full name Daniel Alejandro Flores Peréz
Nationality  Venezuela
Born (1981-10-17) 17 October 1981
Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Sailboard
Club Cumaná Windsurf Club[1]
Coach Juan Manuel Moreno[1]

Daniel Alejandro Flores Peréz (born October 17, 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][4] 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.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Daniel Flores". London 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Daniel Flores". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Mera, Alda (28 March 2012). "Criollo Daniel Flores es el número 21 clasificado a Londres 2012" [Sailor Daniel Flores is ranked no. 21 for London 2012] (in Spanish). YVKE Mundial Radio. Archived from the original on 11 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Finals Series Underway At RS:X Worlds". ISAF. 27 March 2012. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's RS:X". London 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  6. ↑ "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.


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