Javier Hernández Maradiaga
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Javier Hernández Maradiaga |
| National team |
 Honduras |
| Born |
8 May 1988 Puerto Cortés, Honduras |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Butterfly |
| College team | Lindenwood University (U.S.) |
| Coach | Craig Penrose (U.S.) |
Javier Hernández Maradiaga (born May 8, 1988) is a Honduran swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] He represented his nation Honduras at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has currently owned a Central American record in the 200 m butterfly. Hernandez also spent his college career in the United States as a member of the Lindenwood Lions swimming and diving team under head coach Craig Penrose, while pursuing his major in business administration at at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.
Hernandez received a Universality invitation from FINA to compete as Honduras' lone male swimmer in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] Hernandez fired off a 2:02.23 on a high-tech bodysuit to blast a new Honduran record, but could not catch Peru's Emmanuel Crescimbeni to get the fourth spot by just a tenth of a second (0.1), dropping him back to dead-last in the opening heat, and rounding out the roster to forty-second overall in the prelims. [3] In 2015, Hernandez finished 2nd in the country in SIRVA overall with an impressive 4.73 average out of 5.
References
- ↑ "Javier Hernández Maradiaga". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- ↑ ""Las expectativas son grandes"" ["Expectations are getting higher"] (in Spanish). Honduras: La Prensa. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ↑ "Swimming: Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.