Ana Sofía Gómez Porras (born 24 November 1995) is a Guatemalan

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

Senior career

Gómez won the silver medal in the all-around event and the gold medal in balance beam for

Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, three different gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline. The artistic gymnastics events were held on October 24–29. The rhythmic gymnastics e ...

. She competed for

Guatemala at the 2012 Summer Olympics Guatemala competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, having missed three Olympics after its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Com ...

. In the individual women's all-around at the 2012 London Olympics, she qualified into the event in 16th, eventually going on to finish 22nd. In 2013, she competed in the World Cup in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and she placed fourth on the floor final with a score of 13.125. In 2014, she went to Texas to improve her skills before she went to compete in Croatia. Although she qualified into the balance beam final in first place with a score of 13.900, in the final she fell and received a 7.300 in execution and a 6.100 in difficulty, a total of 13.400, finishing in fourth place. In July, she traveled to Canada one month before the Pan American Championships. On 30 August, she competed in the all-around and finished in 7th place with a final score of 54.100, and qualified for the balance beam finals with a score of 14.050. She had the highest D score of 6.300, and in her final exercise she got 14.450, 8.250 in execution and 6.200 in difficulty. In October she participated in the

2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Nanning, China at the Guangxi Gymnasium from 3–12 October 2014. The competition was the fourth time a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships has been held in the continent of Asia. ...

held in

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, and she placed 43rd in the all-around qualification, yet she had some mistakes, and she lost some points on balance beam. In 2015, she trained in Canada almost two months before the Pan American Games. She started on uneven bars, receiving a score of 14.250, 14.350 on balance beam, 14.000 on floor, and 14.600 on vault, so she qualified in third in the all around final. However, in the final she fell on the uneven bars and did not medal, but she qualified to 3 apparatus finals – uneven bars in 6th place, balance beam in 3rd and floor in 6th. In the final she fell off the balance beam and finished in 7th place. On floor, she had perfect lines, earning herself a bronze medal with 14.150. She competed for Guatemala at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. However, she did not qualify for any of the event finals or the women's individual all-around final. She was the flagbearer for Guatemala during the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gomez, Ana Sofia 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Guatemala City Guatemalan female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Guatemala Gymnasts at the 2011 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Guatemala Pan American Games silver medalists for Guatemala Pan American Games bronze medalists for Guatemala Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Guatemala Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games 21st-century Guatemalan women