Vicente Hernández Cabrera
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![]() Vicente Hernández Cabrera (2012)
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Date of birth | 20th April 1991 (age 29) |
place of birth | Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain |
size | 181 cm |
Weight | 74 kg |
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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 |
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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
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Nov 10, 2018 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
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01:49:11 | Winner of the last World Cup race of the season |
June 16, 2017 | 4th | ETU Triathlon European Championships |
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01:45:40 | European championship on the Olympic short distance |
Aug 20, 2016 | 27 | 2016 Summer Olympics |
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01:48:50 | |
3rd July, 2016 | 15th | ITU World Championship Series 2016 |
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01:50:33 | |
23 Apr 2016 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2016 |
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00:54:52 | |
Apr 9, 2016 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2016 |
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01:47:58 | |
Apr 12, 2015 | 4th | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
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01:47:26 | |
June 21, 2014 | 3 | ETU Triathlon European Championships |
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01:54:39 | |
June 28, 2014 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 |
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01:50:40 | U23 Vice European Champion Triathlon |
June 29, 2013 | 3 | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 |
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01:50:39 | |
Feb. 24, 2013 | 1 | ITU Triathlon Pan American Cup and Iberoamerican Championships |
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01:59:31 | Ibero-American champion |
July 3, 2010 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men |
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00:55:23 | European triathlon champion juniors on the sprint distance (750 m swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running) |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Apr. 14, 2019 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Peru |
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03:43:40 | |
Oct 29, 2017 | 1 | Challenge Forte Village Sardinia |
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03:57:16 |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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May 1, 2010 | 4th | ETU Duathlon European Championship Junior Men |
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00:48:24 |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Vicente Hernández website
- Profile for Vicente Hernández Cabrera at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science , accessed on August 9, 2014
- Profile and results of Vicente Hernández Cabrera in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 24, 2020 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Javier Gomez cancels for the Olympic Games . In: tri-mag.de . July 14, 2016.
- ↑ Fabian Fiedler: “Crazy” Brownlee hits ice cold . In: tri-mag.de . April 11, 2015.
- ↑ CHALLENGE FORTE VILLAGE SARDINIA: VICTORS TO HERNANDEZ AND WURTELE (October 29, 2017)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hernández Cabrera, Vicente |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Spain |