Yesenia Ferrera

Yesenia Ferrera
Full name Yesenia Saskia Fererra Nunez
Country represented  Cuba
Born (1998-10-16) October 16, 1998[1]
Santiago de Cuba
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight 46 kg (101 lb)
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Senior International Elite
Years on national team 2014–present

Yesenia Saskia Ferrera Nunez (born October 16, 1998)[2] is a Cuban artistic gymnast. She rose to prominence as a first-year senior in 2014 but soon encountered an injury that sidelined her for two seasons until she returned in 2017.

Career

2014

In August, Fererra competed at the Pan American Championships in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. She finished fourth in the all-around but claimed silver in the vault final and bronze in the floor final.[3]

Later, in November, she traveled to Veracruz for the Central American and Caribbean Games. She clinched the vault and floor titles, also grabbing a bronze on balance beam.[4]

2017

Ferrera returned to elite competition in June 2017 at the Central American Sports Festival in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She won the all-around competition, as well as the vault and floor titles too.[5]

References

  1. "Google Translate". translate.google.co.uk.
  2. "Yesenia Ferrera". 16 September 2015.
  3. "2014 Pan American Championships Results". 1 September 2014.
  4. "2014 Central American and Caribbean Games". 3 December 2014.
  5. "2017 Central American Sports Festival Results". 1 July 2017.
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