| Rayderley Zapata | |
| Fullname: | Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana |
| Birth Date: | 26 May 1993 |
| Birth Place: | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Residence: | Las Palmas, Spain |
| Height: | 1.69m |
| Weight: | 71kg |
| Discipline: | MAG |
| Level: | Senior international elite |
| Natlteam: | 2015 |
| Club: | Isla Lanzarote |
| Headcoach: | Fernando Siscar |
| Eponymousskills: | Zapata (floor) - double front tucked 1½ twist (G [0.7]) Zapata 2 (floor) - double front layout 1½ twist (I [0.9]) |
| Show-Medals: | true |
Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana (born 26 May 1993) is a Spanish artistic gymnast.
Born in the Dominican Republic, when he was a child his family moved to the Spanish island of Lanzarote. Later, in 2010 he moved to Barcelona to receive further training with Gervasio Deferr and Víctor Cano.[1]
He won the gold medal in the men's floor exercise at the 2015 European Games, and bronze at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow.[2] Zapata was also selected to compete for the Spanish squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, missing out of the final by almost two tenths of a point during the qualifying phase of his signature apparatus.[3] [4] 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.[5]
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).