Daniel Flores (sailor)

{{Short description|Venezuelan windsurfer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}

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| fullname = Daniel Alejandro Flores Peréz

| nationality = {{VEN}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|10|17|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela

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| height = {{height|m=1.70|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|60|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

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| classes = Sailboard

| club = Cumaná Windsurf Club

| coach = Juan Manuel Moreno

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Daniel Alejandro Flores Peréz (born 17 October 1981 in Cumaná, Sucre) is a Venezuelan windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class.{{cite web |title=Daniel Flores |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/flores-daniel-1075565/ |website=London2012.com |publisher=London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |accessdate=10 September 2013 |archive-date=6 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406090627/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/flores-daniel-1075565/ |url-status=dead}}{{cite sports-reference|title = Daniel Flores|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fl/daniel-flores-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418083852/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fl/daniel-flores-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 10 September 2013}} He represented Venezuela at the 2012 Summer Olympics and has also been training for Cumaná Windsurf Club under his personal coach and mentor Juan Manuel Moreno. As of September 2013, Flores is ranked no. 31 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation.

Flores made his official debut at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he finished sixth in the men's sailboard class with a net score of 52, narrowly missing out a spot for the medal race by a single point.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Flores competed in the RS:X class having received a birth by his result from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.{{cite news |title=Finals Series Underway At RS:X Worlds |url=http://www.sailing.org/19986.php |publisher=ISAF |date=27 March 2012 |accessdate=10 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213175852/http://www.sailing.org/19986.php |archivedate=13 December 2007}} Struggling to attain a top position in the opening series, Flores climbed an astonishing sixteenth position on the final leg, but came up short with an accumulated net score of 252 points and a thirty-first-place finish in a fleet of thirty-eight windsurfers.{{cite web |title=Men's RS:X |url=http://www.london2012.com/sailing/event/rs-x-men/phase=sam102101/doc=summary.html |website=London2012.com |publisher=London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |accessdate=27 November 2012 |archive-date=31 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031100141/http://www.london2012.com/sailing/event/rs-x-men/phase=sam102101/doc=summary.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |title=Daniel Flores se fajó en la última regata |trans-title=Daniel Flores wraps up his final race |language=Spanish |url=http://www.eluniversal.com/deportes/londres-2012/120805/daniel-flores-se-fajo-en-la-ultima-regata |publisher=El Universal (Caracas) |date=5 August 2012 |accessdate=10 September 2013}}