Daniel Corral

Who is Daniel Corral?

Daniel Corral Barrón is a Mexican gymnast. He participated at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games where he won the silver medal at the team competition and the bronze medal at the vault final. He then competed at the 2011 Pan-American Games, where he achieved two gold medals in the pommel horse and parallel bars finals. In 2012 he qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to the individual all-around competition, when he finished 4th at the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event, he also achieved the gold medal in the parallel bars final in the same event.

In 2013 at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships held in Antwerp he participated and qualified in 2nd place to the Pommel Horse final, where he tied with British gymnast Max Whitlock for the silver medal with a score of 15.633, thereby becoming the first Mexican gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships.