Yesenia Ferrera
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| Full name | Yesenia Saskia Ferrera Nuñez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 16, 1998 Santiago de Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 46 kg (101 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2014–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yesenia Saskia Ferrera Nuñez (born October 16, 1998)[1] is a Cuban artistic gymnast. She rose to prominence as a first-year senior in 2014 but soon encountered an injury that sidelined her for two seasons until she returned in 2017.
Career
[edit]2014
[edit]In August, Ferrera competed at the Pan American Championships in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. She finished fourth in the all-around but claimed silver in the vault final and bronze in the floor final.[2]
Later, in November, she traveled to Veracruz for the Central American and Caribbean Games. She clinched the vault and floor titles, also grabbing a bronze on balance beam.[3]
2017
[edit]Ferrera returned to elite competition in June 2017 at the Central American Sports Festival in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She won the all-around competition, as well as the vault and floor titles too.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Yesenia Ferrera". 16 September 2015.
- ^ "2014 Pan American Championships Results". 1 September 2014.
- ^ "2014 Central American and Caribbean Games". 3 December 2014.
- ^ "2017 Central American Sports Festival Results". 1 July 2017.
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Cuban female artistic gymnasts
- Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba
- Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Cuba
- Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- 21st-century Cuban women