As of his birth on May 26, 1993, R. Zapata a member of the Spanish men’s artistic gymnastics team, was of Dominican Republic descent. At the 2015 European Games, he earned the men’s floor exercise gold medal, and at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, he won bronze.
R. Zapata was also chosen to participate for Spain in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Where he almost missed making it to the final round of his specialty apparatus exercise by less than 0.2 of a point.
When it came to artistic gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Spain’s R. Zapata took home silver.
R. Zapata Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Sunday, at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Spanish gymnast R. Zapata won the silver medal in the floor final. R. Zapata is still in extremely close proximity to gold, as he is tied on points with the winner, the Israeli Artem Dolgopyat.
Chinese athlete Xiao Ruoteng won bronze. Dominican-born and Spanish-speaking R. Zapata (1993) has eliminated a potential roadblock to his finals appearance in Rio. In this case, what he touched was worth as much as gold, as he tied with Dolgopyat for highest score.
However, the judges rewarded him with 0.1 additional points for difficulty, knocking R. Zapata out of first place. For Spanish artistic gymnastics, it is the first medal since Gervasio Deferr won silver on the ground at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The 28-year-old Spanish gymnast R. Zapata stunned the crowd by winning the artistic gymnastics floor exercise and the overall competition. Throughout the entire drill, R. Zapata maintained a commanding lead. With a score of 14,933, he tied with the Israeli and was separated from the first metal by only ten tenths of a point in difficulty.
Spain finally takes home a gold medal in this event 13 years after they last won one. R. Zapata was one of Spain’s potential medal-table surprises. His fourth-place finish in the qualifying round raised hopes that he may pull off a surprising performance in the finals that would propel him into the medal contention. What’s more, he aced it to boot.
Conclusion
In addition to the Miyachi on high bar and the Nagornyy on floor, the R. Zapata 2 on floor (double front layout with 112 twist). It is one of the three most difficult components in men’s artistic gymnastics, all of which have been ranked as I. (0.9).
R. Zapata also has a G-rated floor dance called the R. Zapata , which is a double front tuck with a 112 twist (0.7).
