Ray Zapata will compete next Sunday, August 1, in the final of the floor exercise of artistic gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympic Games after finishing with the fourth best score this Saturday during the team competition classification.
He was one of the first to compete and had to wait until the other two subdivisions finished to certify a classification, well on track and which was finally the only positive news of the men's team.
Zapata, who seems to have kept an 'ace up his sleeve' for the final, where he will be a candidate for the podium, and who only performed this exercise as he was not competing in the vault as also planned, scored 15.041, the fourth best score after those of the Israeli Artem Dolgopyat (15.200), the Russian Nikita Nagoorny (15.066) and the South Korean Sunghyun Ryu (15.006). Since Gervasio Deferr in 2008, no Spanish gymnast had qualified for the floor final.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, has conveyed the best of luck to the Olympic athlete and gymnast of the Spanish Artistic Gymnastics Team, Ray Zapata, in his participation in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
“It is a great opportunity for our gymnast to continue adding successes to his extensive record and continue to fuel an already successful career. The whole Island is with Ray and we are confident that he will once again demonstrate that he is one of the best in the world in his discipline,” says the president.
