| Javier Hernández Maradiaga | |
| Fullname: | Javier Hernández Maradiaga |
| Strokes: | Butterfly |
| Coach: | Craig Penrose (U.S.) |
| Collegeteam: | Lindenwood University (U.S.) |
| Birth Date: | 8 May 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Puerto Cortés, Honduras |
| Height: | 1.740NaN0 |
| Weight: | 660NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Javier Hernández Maradiaga (born May 8, 1988) is a Honduran swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] He represented his nation Honduras at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has currently owned a Central American record in the 200 m butterfly. Hernandez also spent his college career in the United States as a member of the Lindenwood Lions swimming and diving team under head coach Craig Penrose while pursuing his major in computer science at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.
Hernandez received a Universality invitation from FINA to compete as Honduras' lone male swimmer in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] Hernandez fired off a 2:02.23 on a high-tech bodysuit to blast a new Honduran record, but could not catch Peru's Emmanuel Crescimbeni to get the fourth spot by just a tenth of a second (0.1), dropping him back to dead-last in the opening heat, and rounding out the roster to forty-second overall in the prelims.[3] In 2015, Hernandez finished 2nd in the country in SIRVA overall with an impressive 4.73 average out of 5.