Daniel_Flores_(sailor)

Daniel Flores (sailor)

Daniel Flores (sailor)

Venezuelan windsurfer

Daniel Alejandro Flores Peréz (born 17 October 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.

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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] 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.[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Daniel Flores". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  2. [2]
    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daniel Flores". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  3. [3]
    "Finals Series Underway At RS:X Worlds". ISAF. 27 March 2012. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
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    "Men's RS:X". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  5. [5]
    "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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