Javier Hernández Maradiaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
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Place of Birth: Puerto Cortés, Cortés Department, Honduras
About Javier Hernández Maradiaga
- Javier Hernández Maradiaga (born May 8, 1988) is a Honduran swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.
- 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.
- 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.
- In 2015, Hernandez finished 2nd in the country in SIRVA overall with an impressive 4.73 average out of 5.
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