Miguel Adrian Ferrera Rodríguez ( Spanish: Miguel Adrian Ferrera Rodríguez ; genus May 25, 1981 , Tegucigalpa ) - Honduran Taekwondo player , welterweight. He has been playing for the Taekwondo national team of Honduras since 2006, winner of tournaments of national and international importance, participant of two summer Olympic Games.
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| A country |  Honduras |
| Specialization | Taekwondo |
| Date of Birth | May 25, 1981 (aged 38) |
| Place of Birth | Tegucigalpa , Honduras |
| Growth | 180 cm |
| Weight | 80 kg |
Biography
Miguel Ferrera was born on May 25, 1981 in Tegucigalpa . He studied taekwondo while studying at the National University of Honduras, was trained under the guidance of coaches Adona Medina and Julio Antonio Hova.
He began speaking at serious competitions in 2006, when he took part in the student world championship and the Pan American championship. A year later, he attended the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro .
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , and at the opening ceremony he carried the banner of Honduras. Nevertheless, he had only one match at the Games, already at the preliminary stage of the category up to 80 kg with a score of 1: 3 he lost to the Chinese Zhu Guo and thereby lost all chances to be among the winners [1] [2] [3] .
After the Beijing Olympics, Ferrera remained in the main squad of the Honduran national team and continued to take part in major international tournaments. So, in 2009, he performed at the Universiade in Belgrade and at the World Cup in Copenhagen .
In 2013 he became a participant in the world championship in Puebla and the Grand Prix of Manchester. The following season, he added to the track record a silver award received at the international tournament in San Jose, and also took bronze at the Santo Domingo open championship.
In 2015, by decision of the International Taekwondo Federation, he was the first among the Hondurans to be introduced into the symbolic World Hall of Fame [4] . Later, the federation issued him a wild card to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro - this time at the preliminary stage he met with Iranian representative Mehdi Khodabakhshi and was defeated with a score of 1:13. Despite an early defeat, at the closing ceremony of the Games he was honored to carry the flag of Honduras [5] [6] .
He played at the 2017 World Championships in Muju , but did not reach the prize positions here either.
Notes
- ↑ WTF Pan American Qualification Tournament Concludes in Success in Cali, Colombia , World Taekwondo Federation (December 10, 2007). Date of treatment January 9, 2013.
- ↑ Men's 80kg (176 lbs) Preliminary Round of 16 (link not available) . NBC Olympics . Date of treatment January 9, 2013. Archived on August 18, 2012.
- ↑ List of Flagbearers Beijing 2008 ( PDF ). Olympics . Date of treatment January 9, 2013.
- ↑ Miguel Ferrera . nbcolympics.com
- ↑ Taekwondo Men −80kg . Rio 2016 . Date of treatment August 22, 2016.
- ↑ The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony (August 21, 2016). Date of treatment August 22, 2016.
Links
- Miguel Ferrera (German) - page in the Taekwondodata.de database
- Miguel Ferrera - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com