Personal information | |
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Full name | Javier Hernández Maradiaga |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Puerto Cortés, Honduras | 8 May 1988
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 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.