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Yamilet Peña
Yamilet Peña Abreu (born 4 December 1992 in Santo Domingo) is an elite artistic gymnast from the Dominican Republic who won a gold medal at the 2014 World Challenge Cup and the 2012 Pan American Championship in vault (gymnastics), vault and a bronze medal at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, 2012 World Cup. She is known for her execution of the Yelena Produnova#Skills named after her, Produnovaa handspring double front on vault. She qualified for the vault finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2011 and the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2013 World Championships. Peña won a silver medal in vault during the 2011 ALBA Games, IV ALBA Games and qualified for the finals in the same apparatus at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 2011 Pan American Games. Peña won the women's artistic gymnastics Athlete of the Year by the Dominican Republic Olympic Committee from 2008 to 2013. Early and personal l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a Dominican Republic–Haiti border, land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the Geography of the Dominican Republic, eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin (island), Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by two sovereign states. In the Antilles, the country is the List of Caribbean islands by area, second-largest nation by area after Cuba at and List of Caribbean countries by population, second-largest by population after Haiti with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom 3.6 million reside in the Greater Santo Domingo, metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola prior to European colonization of the America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 2023 Central American And Caribbean Games ...
The gymnastics competition at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games is scheduled to be held in San Salvador, El Salvador, from 27 June to 7 July 2023 at the Polideportivo Ciudad Merliot. Medal table Medal summary Artistic Men's events Women's events Rhythmic Individual Group Trampoline Note list References External links {{2023 in rhythmic gymnastics Events at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games 2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 ALBA Games
The IV ALBA Games (Spanish: ''Juegos del ALBA Bicentenario'') is a multi-sport event held between 17–30 July 2011 in ten different states of Venezuela. The games are organized by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA). Participating nations The following countries are expected to compete. The number of competitors qualified by each delegation is indicated in parentheses. * * * (157) * * * * (368) * * * * (126) * * * * * * (134) * * * * * * * (806) Sports * * * * * * * * * *Cycling ** ** ** ** * * * *Gymnastics ** ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Medal table http://www.juegosalba.org.ve/Medalls/ViewMedalTableLink.aspx?dia=07/18/2011 References External linksOfficial website Alba Alba Alba A International sports competitions hosted by Venezuela Multi-sport events in Venezuela ALBA Games Alba ''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English-language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Antwerp, Belgium, from 30 September to 6 October 2013 at Antwerp's Sports Palace. Kōhei Uchimura won the men's individual all-around gold medal, and finished the competition with four total medals. Simone Biles won the women's individual all-around title, and also finished the competition with four medals. Competition schedule All times are Central European Summer Time, CEST (UTC+2). Medalists Men's results Individual all-around The final was held on 3 October. Kōhei Uchimura won his fourth consecutive individual all-around world championship crown, outscoring silver medalist Ryohei Kato by 1.958 points. Uchimura became the first male gymnast to win four world individual all-around titles. He posted the highest score on three of the six apparatuses. Floor The final was held on 5 October. Japan's Kenzo Shirai became the first gymnast to successfully perform a backward quadruple-twisting layout somersault (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 7–16, 2011, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Due to uncertainty over the nuclear situation following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, International Federation of Gymnastics revealed it was considering moving the event, but on May 22 FIG president Bruno Grandi announced that the World Championships would take place in Tokyo as planned. Participating countries 83 countries participated, which included gymnasts from * Albania * Argentina * Armenia * Australia * Austria * Azerbaijan * Bangladesh * Belarus * Belgium * Brazil * Bulgaria * Canada * Chile * China * Chinese Taipei * Colombia * Costa Rica * Croatia * Cyprus * Czech Republic * Denmark * Dominican Republic * Egy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the group stage in Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, women's football, began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, followed by the opening ceremony on 27 July. There were 10,518 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) who participated in the 2012 Olympics. Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and the then-Mayor of London, London mayor Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore on 6 July 2005, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid, and Paris. London became the first city to host the modern Olympics three times, having previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 Summer Olympics, 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Produnova
Yelena Sergeyevna Produnova, also known as Elena (; born 15 February 1980), is a Russian former competitive gymnast. Her senior international career lasted from 1995 to 2000 and earned her multiple world and Olympic medals. One of the most difficult vaults in women's gymnastics, the Produnova, is named after her. With a D-score of 6.0, the Produnova vault is tied with the Biles as having the second highest D-score in women's vault in the 2021–2024 quadrennium. Personal life Produnova was born on 15 February 1980. She lives in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia. She currently works as a gymnastics coach. Gymnastics career 1995–96 Produnova's first major senior competition was the 1995 World Championships in Sabae, Fukui, Japan where the Russians finished fourth. Inexperienced, she made little impact on the international scene. A heel injury hampered her chances of being chosen for the 1996 Summer Olympics, and she stayed at home. 1997 At the 1997 World Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistic Gymnastics World Cup
The Artistic Gymnastics World Cup is a competition series for artistic gymnastics sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). It is one of the few tournaments in artistic gymnastics officially organized by FIG, as well as the World Championships and the gymnastics competitions at the Olympic Games and the Youth Olympics. Beginning in the 2017-2020 quadrennium, the All-Around and Individual Apparatus World Cup series are used to qualify a maximum of seven spots to the Olympic Games. History The Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) hosted the first artistic gymnastics on an international scale in 1975. This genre of sport from then onwards was named as the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, an original competition reserved for the current best gymnasts. It was composed of a single and unique event, bringing together very few gymnasts in all around competition and in apparatus finals. This initiative was taken in a particular context, since the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vault (gymnastics)
The vault is an artistic gymnastics maneuver typically performed on a pommel horse or a vaulting table. Both male and female gymnasts perform the vault. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is VT. The apparatus German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn popularized the vault's early forms. The apparatus itself originated as a "horse", much like the pommel horse but without the handles; it was sometimes known as the vaulting horse. The horse was set up with its long dimension perpendicular to the run for women, and parallel for men.What's With That Weird New Vault? an August 2004 "Explainer" article from ''Slate (magazine), Slate'' The vaulting horse was the apparatus used in the Olympics for over a century, beginning with the Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's vault, Men's vault in the first modern Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistic Gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used to score performances and regulates all aspects of elite international competition. Within individual countries, gymnastics is regulated by national federations such as British Gymnastics and USA Gymnastics. Artistic gymnastics is a popular spectator sport at many competitions, including the Summer Olympic Games. History The gymnastic system was mentioned in writings by ancient authors, including Homer, Aristotle, and Plato. It included many disciplines that later became independent sports, such as swimming, racing, wrestling, boxing, and horse riding. It was also used for military training. Gymnastics evolved in Bohemia and what later became Germany at the beginning of the 19th century. The term "artistic gymnastics" was introduced to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 2022 Bolivarian Games
Gymnastics competitions at the 2022 Bolivarian Games in Valledupar, Colombia are being held from 27 June to 3 July 2022 at Coliseo de Ferias and Coliseo of Popular University of Cesar. Twenty five medal events are scheduled to be contested; 14 in artistic gymnastics (eight for men, six for women), eight in rhythmic (all for women) and 3 in trampoline A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched between a steel frame often using many coiled spring (device), springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes. The fabric that use ... (one for men, two for women). A total of 119 athletes will compete in the events. The events were open competitions without age restrictions, except for the artistics where gymnasts must be at least 18 (men) and 16 (women) years old by 31 December 2022. It was planned that a men's synchronized trampolining event would be held, but finally did not take place. Colombia are the gymnast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Bolivarian Games
The 2022 Bolivarian Games (), officially the XIX Bolivarian Games Valledupar 2022, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Valledupar, Colombia from June 24 to July 5. It was the fifth time of the event in Colombia. Participating nations All 7 nations of the Organización Deportiva Bolivariana (ODEBO) and 4 invited nations competed in these Games. ODEBO nations * * * (host) * * * * Invited nations * * * * Sports The Games featured 389 events in 32 different sports, encompassing a total of 45 disciplines. * List of water sports, Aquatics ** ** ** ** * * * * Baseball ** ** * Basketball ** ** * * * * ** ** ** ** * * * Football ** ** * * ** ** ** * * * * ** ** * * * * * * * * * * Volleyball ** ** * * * Calendar The sports program is as follows. Medal table Medalists Archery ;Recurve ;Compound Artistic swimming Baseball Bowling Canoeing Equestrian Golf Roller sports ;Artistic rolle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
