Carlos Daniel Serrano Zárate (born August 17, 1998, in

Bucaramanga Bucaramanga () is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth-largest economy by GDP in Colombia, has the lowest unemployment rate and has the ninth-largest population in the country, with 68 ...

) is a

Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

from

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

Career

He competed in the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. In 2018, he was nominated for the

Americas Paralympic Committee Americas Paralympic Committee (acronym: APC; es, Comité Paralímpico de Américas ; pt, Comitê Paralímpico das Américas ; ca, Comitè Paralímpic de les Amèriques ; eo, Komitato Paralimpika de la Amerikoj ; french: Comité Paralympique des ...

Athlete of the Year prize.

References

1998 births People from Bucaramanga Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Living people Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Paralympic medalists in swimming Paralympic gold medalists for Colombia Paralympic silver medalists for Colombia Paralympic bronze medalists for Colombia Paralympic swimmers of Colombia Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics S7-classified Paralympic swimmers Sportspeople from Santander Department 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-Paralympic-medalist-stub