Brenda Magaña
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| Born | July 27, 1977 (age 49) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | World Olympic Gymnastics Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Bogomil Ivanov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Brenda Vianey 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 somersault dismount from the uneven bars at a World Championships or Olympics, which she did at the 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
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, United States. She was five years old when she participated in her first international competition in Czechoslovakia.
Eponymous skill
Magaña has the triple back somersault dismount off the uneven bars named after her in the Code of Points.
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Added to the Code of Points |
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| Uneven bars | Magaña | Swing forward to triple back salto tucked | G (0.7) | 2002 World Championships |
- ↑ Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points
References
- 1 2 "Deportistas Mexicanos en Atenas 2004". Centro Nacional de Informacion y Documentacion de Cultura Fisica y Deporte (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2004-12-16. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
- ↑ "2022-2024 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. p. 103. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ↑ "Women's Artistic Gymnastics – 2025-2028 Code of Points" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. 22 April 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.