Vicente Hernández Cabrera

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Vicente Hernández Cabrera (2012)
Vicente Hernández Cabrera (2012)
Personal information
Date of birth 20th April 1991 (age 29)
place of birth Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
size 181 cm
Weight 74 kg
societies
successes
2010 European Champion Triathlon Juniors
2013 Ibero-American champion
2014 Vice-European triathlon U23 champion
2014 3rd place in the European Championship Triathlon short distance
2017 4th place European Championship Triathlon Short Distance
2019 Winner Ironman 70.3
status
active

Vicente Hernández Cabrera (born April 20, 1991 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife ) is a Spanish triathlete . He is the Junior European Triathlon Champion (2010), the U23 Vice-European Triathlon Champion (2014), winner of the bronze medal at the 2014 European Championship and Olympic athlete (2016).

Career

Vicente Hernández came from football to swimming at the age of eleven , where as a teenager he competed in his main disciplines, crawl and back, in competitions up to the national level.

Hernández started triathlon at the age of eighteen and was soon appointed to the Centro de Alto Rendimiento (CAR), a state high-performance sports center, in Madrid . In May he finished fourth at the Junior European Duathlon Championships and after just eight months of training, he won the Junior European Triathlon Championships in Athlone in July 2010 .
In 2011 and 2012, Hernández came to only a few competitions because of a patellar tendon syndrome . In 2013, Hernández was Ibero-American champion in Lima , won bronze at the U23 European Championship and silver at the ITU World Cup in Alicante .

In June 2014 Fernández was U23 European Triathlon Champion and he played his first season in the ITU World Championship Series , which he finished 22nd in the world rankings. In addition, he won bronze at the European Championships in Kitzbühel .
In 2015 he made it to the top of the world with four top 10 placements in the ITU World Championship Series, until the Grand Final in Chicago he was in tenth place in the world rankings, but then fell to 17th place due to an exit on the bike course in Chicago back.

2016 Summer Olympics

Vicente Hernández only moved up to the Spanish Olympic team three weeks before the start of the 2016 Summer Olympics for reigning world champion Javier Gómez , who was injured in a training accident, and he finished 27th in Rio de Janeiro.

At his first start in the middle distance triathlon, he won the Challenge Forte Village Sardinia in October 2017. In April 2019 he won the Ironman 70.3 Peru .

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint and short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Nov 10, 2018 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup JapanJapan Miyazaki 01:49:11 Winner of the last World Cup race of the season
June 16, 2017 4th ETU Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Kitzbühel 01:45:40 European championship on the Olympic short distance
Aug 20, 2016 27 2016 Summer Olympics BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro 01:48:50
03rd July, 2016 15th ITU World Championship Series 2016 SwedenSweden Stockholm 01:50:33
23 Apr 2016 7th ITU World Championship Series 2016 South AfricaSouth Africa Cape Town 00:54:52
0Apr 9, 2016 7th ITU World Championship Series 2016 AustraliaAustralia Gold coast 01:47:58
Apr 12, 2015 4th ITU World Championship Series 2015 AustraliaAustralia Gold coast 01:47:26
June 21, 2014 3 ETU Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Kitzbühel 01:54:39
June 28, 2014 2 ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 RussiaRussia Penza 01:50:40 U23 Vice European Champion Triathlon
June 29, 2013 3 ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 NetherlandsNetherlands Rijssen-Holten 01:50:39
Feb. 24, 2013 1 ITU Triathlon Pan American Cup and Iberoamerican Championships PeruPeru Lima 01:59:31 Ibero-American champion
0July 3, 2010 1 ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men ItalyItaly Athlone 00:55:23 European triathlon champion juniors on the sprint distance (750 m swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running)
Triathlon middle distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Apr. 14, 2019 1 Ironman 70.3 Peru United StatesUnited States Lima 03:43:40
Oct 29, 2017 1 Challenge Forte Village Sardinia ItalyItaly Sardinia 03:57:16
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0May 1, 2010 4th ETU Duathlon European Championship Junior Men FranceFrance Nancy 00:48:24

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Javier Gomez cancels for the Olympic Games . In: tri-mag.de . July 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: “Crazy” Brownlee hits ice cold . In: tri-mag.de . April 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ CHALLENGE FORTE VILLAGE SARDINIA: VICTORS TO HERNANDEZ AND WURTELE (October 29, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Hernández Cabrera, Vicente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Spain