title: Norberto Bernárdez Ávila
text: # Norberto Bernárdez Ávila
  
  Norberto Bernárdez Ávila (born April 20, 1987) is a Honduran single sculls rower. Bernardez represented Honduras at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed as the nation's lone rower in the men's single sculls, an event which was later dominated by defending Olympic champion Olaf Tufte of Norway. Bernardez placed second and thirty-first overall in the F-final by forty seconds behind Kenya's Matthew Lidaywa Mwange, with a time of 8:32.22.
  
  