Daniela Larreal
Daniela Grelui Larreal Chirinos ( born October 2, 1973 in Maracaibo ) is a Venezuelan racing driver.
Sports career
Daniela Larreal took 1992 as a 19 -year-old for the first time in the Olympic Games, where she took up at the track cycling competitions in the sprint. They do not come in the placement ranks. Overall Larreal Create up to 2012 at five Olympic Games, where she was represented every time in the sprint competition. In this discipline, it achieved in 2000 and 2004 with an eighth place their best results. At the 2012 Games she finished ninth in the keirin competition and finished in the team sprint, together with Mariaesthela Vilera, seventh.
Successful 1.67 m wide Larreal was especially in the South American Championships. After the third place in the Venezuelan road championship in 2001, she won two gold medals in the 2002 Sprint and Keirin in as well as a silver medal in the 500 meter time trial at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador. In 2003, she also captured in the sprint and keirin in two silver medals at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. Outstanding athlete she was at the Bolivar games in 2005, from which they returned with four gold medals (500 -meter time trial, individual and team sprint and keirin ). Thrice was Daniela Larreal Pan-American champion on the track: 2005 in Keirin, 2011 and 2012 together with Mariaesthela Vilera in the team sprint.
Between 1999 and 2012 Larreal participated in six UCI Track World Championships; her best result was a fifth place in the sprint at the UCI Track World Championships in Stuttgart in 2003. In the Keirin competitions within the UCI Track Cycling World Cup 2006/2007 Larreal won the race from Los Angeles on January 21, 2007 and was in the Cup final classification Sixth.
Also at the Pan American Games in 2011 she was successful. There, she reached behind Lisandra Guerra in the sprint silver medal rank and won gold in the keirin.
Trivia
Daniela Larreals father, Daniel Larreal was also a successful Venezuelan cyclists. In addition to her sporting career Daniela trained as a PE teacher. She performed publicly for the policies of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, which meant that it was boycotted by part of the conservative press in their country.