Hobbies
Playing guitar, watching movies. (Grada Norte's Facebook page, 12 Sep 2017)
Occupation
Athlete, Student
Education
Architecture - University of Sonora: Mexico
Spoken languages
English, Spanish
Club
Sonora State: Mexico
Coach
Manuel Salazar [club, national]
Sporting relatives
His brother Erick is a professional footballer who has played in the third tier of the Mexican football league. (Grada Norte's Facebook page, 12 Sep 2017)
Injuries
He sustained a ligament injury in his left foot in 2018. He missed the Mexican team trials for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia, but earned his place on the team a month later at the national championships. (eldiariodesonora.com.mx, 28 May 2018)
He experienced shoulder pain while competing at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, QC, Canada. He recovered after a month of rest. (elfinanciero.com.mx, 06 Nov 2017)
He suffered chronic twisted fingers and wrists during 2016 and 2017. (elfinanciero.com.mx, 06 Nov 2017)
Start sporting career
He took up the sport at age four in Hermosillo, Mexico.
Reason for taking up the sport
Her mother, who was involved in gymnastics when she was a teenager, signed him up for a gymnastics school.
Trainings
He trains twice per day at a high-performance gymnastics centre in Hermosillo, Mexico.
Most memorable sporting achievement
Winning a medal at the 2018 World Cup event in Guimaraes, Portugal. (Instagram profile, 19 Jun 2018)
Additional information
TRAINING IN BRITAIN
In 2017, he trained for six months in Birmingham, England, under coach Lee Woolls. "We trained for four hours a day, a very intelligent and efficient training. If you got stuck with one exercise, you continued with the next one. It was very fast, we practised all the apparatus every day." (expreso.com.mx, 15 Jun 2017; fmgimnasia.org, 09 Jun 2017; elsoldehermosillo.com.mx, 28 Jan 2017)
NATIONAL FIRST
He was the first Mexican to qualify for an individual all-around final at the world championships. He accomplished it at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, QC, Canada. (elfinanciero.com.mx, 06 Nov 2017; Facebook page, 06 Oct 2017)
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