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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Zapata and the second or maternal family name is Santana.

Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana (born 26 May 1993) is an artistic gymnast. Born in the Dominican Republic, he is a member of the Spain national team. 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.[1][3] 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.[4]

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 1+1⁄2 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 1+1⁄2 twist and assigned a difficulty value of G (0.7).

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  1. ^ a b c "Rayderley Zapata". Rio 2016 Olympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  2. ^ "2015 World Gymnastics Championships athletes - Zapata Rayderley". 2015worldgymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Gymnastics: Men's Qualification Subdivision 3 Results". Rio 2016 Olympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat makes history, nabs gold medal at Tokyo Olympics". Haaretz. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

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