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Yamilet Peña
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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Peña and the second or maternal family name is Abreu.
Yamilet Peña
— Gymnast —
Full name Yamilet Peña Abreu
Nickname(s) Chiqui
Country represented Dominican Republic
Born December 4, 1992 (age 21)
Santo Domingo
Height 1.42 m (4 ft 8 in)
Discipline Women'sartistic gymnastics
Level Senior International
Years on national team 2001-
Head coach(es) Francisco Encarnación
Assistant coach(es) Jose Gabriel Valerio
Former coach(es) Francisco Susana
Choreographer Eva Martin
Music La llave de mi corazón from Juan Luis Guerra
Medal record[hide]
Women's gymnastics
Competitor for the Dominican Republic
World Cup
Bronze 2012 Zibo Vault
Pan AmericanChampionships
Gold 2012 Medellin Vault
Last updated on: October 2013.
Yamilet Peña Abreu (born December 4, 1992 in Santo Domingo) is an elite artistic gymnast from the Dominican Republic who won a gold medal at the 2012 Pan American Championship for the vault and a bronze medal at the 2012 World Cup. She is known for her execution of the Produnova—a handspring double front on vault.[1] Shequalified for the vault finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2011 and the 2013 World Championships.

Peña won a silver medal in vault during the 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 Committeefrom 2008 to 2013.

Contents [hide]
1 Early and personal life
2 Career
2.1 Early career
2.2 2004-2010
2.3 2010
2.4 2011
2.5 2012
2.5.1 London Olympics and aftermath
2.6 2013
3 References
4 External links
Early and personal life[edit]
Peña was born on December 4, 1992 in Villa Duarte, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.[2][3][4] She is 142 cm (4 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 48kilograms (106 lb).[5] Her parents are German Peña, a tailor and Angela Abreu, a housewife.[2] She attended Ramón Matías Mella Elementary School and Centro Educativo Marillat High School.[6] Peña studied accounting at Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago for four semesters, after which she announced in August 2012, that she would study for a degree in sport psychology.[7][8] As of September 2013, shestudies in Universidad Iberoamericana a B.S. in Psychology thanks to the scholarship given by ARS Universal.[9]

During a training session in the balance beam in 2009, Peña suffered concussion, which has permanently affected her sense of smell.[6]

Career[edit]
Early career[edit]
Peña started to practice gymnastics; at the age of six she joined the Monte Sarmiento club in the Olympic Stadiumpremises. When she was eight she traveled to Cuba, where she won two silver medals in vault—her first international awards.[10] She practiced diving from the age of 12.[11] She was nicknamed "chiqui" because of her smallness.[7]

2004-2010[edit]
In mid-2004, Peña and her fellow gymnasts took part in a public petition calling for the ousting of the President of the Gymnastics Federation, StephenGalva. The gymnastics pavilion was kept closed and its condition deteriorated. Galva did not fulfill his promises to the athletes.[11] Peña was undecided whether to practice diving or artistic gymnastics, and was asked to go on loan to the Diving Federation for the 2005 season by coach Francisco Balbuena.[11] With her teammate Ninoska Ortiz, Peña participated in the 20th Central American andCaribbean Games held in Cartagena, Colombia, where she finished eighth in the team competition and 22nd in the all-around; she did not qualify for any event final.[12] At the XIII International Puerto Rico Cup, Peña was 12th on vault in qualifying with 13.600, 25th on uneven bars, 26th on balance beam, 27th on floor exercise, and 26th in the all-around with a 42.700.[13] In the vault finals in the...