Brenda Magaña
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Magaña and the second or maternal family name is Almaral.
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July 27, 1977 Guadalajara, Mexico | |||||||||||||||
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| Club | World Olympic Gymnastics Academy | |||||||||||||||
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Brenda Magaña Almaral (born July 27, 1977 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a Mexican artistic gymnast. Magana is best known for being the first woman to successfully complete a triple back somersalt from the bars! which she did at the 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen. This move is unusual even amongst male gymnasts, and in the women's code of points it bears her name. The Magaña is still the most difficult dismount on the uneven bars.
She began practicing gymnastics at the age of three at the Club Deportivo Atlas Paradero in Guadalajara but then started training at WOGA Gymnastics in Texas, USA. She was five years old when she participated in her first international competition in Czechoslovakia.
External links
- Brenda Magaña at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
- (Spanish) Profile