Regino Hernández

Regino Hernández

Regino Hernández
Personal information
Full name	Regino Hernández Martín
Nationality	Spanish
Born	(1991-07-25) 25 July 1991 Ceuta, Spain
Sport
Country	Spain
Sport	Snowboarding
Medal record Men's snowboarding Representing  Spain Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Snowboard cross World Championships 2017 Sierra Nevada Snowboard team cross Junior World Championships 2011 Valmalenco Snowboard cross

Regino Hernández Martín (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈxino eɾˈnandeθ maɾˈtin]; born 25 July 1991 in Ceuta) is a Spanish snowboarder. In 2018, he became the first person born on the African continent to win a winter Olympic medal.

Career

On 29 March 2011, he won a gold medal in snowboard cross at the 2011 FIS Junior World Championships in Valmalenco, Italy.

Regino participated for the first time at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver 2010 where he was 31st. He was eliminated at the 1/8 round. Four years later in Sochi 2014 he reached the quarterfinals where he was eliminated finished 21st. In Pyeongchang 2018 he reached the final and achieved the bronze medal. It was Spain's first medal at the Winter Olympics since 1992.

His first World Cup podium was in La Molina, Spain on 15 March 2014.^[1]

World Cup podiums

Individual events

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2014	15 Mar 2014	La Molina, Spain	Snowboard cross	3rd

Team events

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2017	18 Dec 2016	Montafon, Austria	Snowboard cross team	1st
2018	17 Dec 2017	Montafon, Austria	Snowboard cross team	1st
	18 Mar 2018	Veysonnaz, Switzerland	Snowboard cross team	2nd

Olympic results

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2010	15 Feb 2010	Vancouver, Canada	Snowboard cross	31st
2014	18 Feb 2014	Sochi, Rusia	Snowboard cross	21st
2018	15 Feb 2018	Pyeongchang, South Korea	Snowboard cross

References