Daniely Ríos Mora is a
Puerto Rican table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player. As of January 2020, she has been in position 214th with 1660 points in the
ITTF Women's World Ranking. In 2019, in collaboration with
Adriana Díaz and
Melanie Díaz, she was instrumental in earning a gold medal for Puerto Rico's female team in the
Pan American Games in Lima. Women's Paraguay Open 2019 was her last international match where she “caused arguably the biggest upset of the day by beating Ilka Doval.”
Personal life
Ríos Mora was raised in
Utuado,
Puerto Rico
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. She was trained by Víctor Pimentel and Bladimir Díaz in the Águilas de la Montaña table tennis club, and has been playing since she was five. In pairs and teams, Ríos has played with the Díaz sisters in various international competitions. In May 2020, Daniely earned her bachelor's degree in mass communications from the
Ana G. Méndez University; she is also interested in attending law school.
See also
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Latin American Youth Table Tennis Championships
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Puerto Rico at the 2019 Pan American Games
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Melanie Díaz
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Adriana Díaz
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Brian Afanador
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On April 2, 2016, Afanador made history becoming the first Puerto Rican male table tennis player to qualify for the Olympic Games. On June 3, 2016, Afan ...
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Bruna Takahashi
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Jennifer Wu
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Lily Zhang
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Caroline Kumahara
References
External links
Daniely Rios’ record at Table Tennis Guide
Daniely Rios’ record at Los Deportes
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Puerto Rican table tennis players
1996 births
Living people
People from Utuado, Puerto Rico
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico
Pan American Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games