Brenda Magaña
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| Born | July 27, 1977 Guadalajara, Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | World Olympic Gymnastics Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 somersault dismount from the uneven bars, which she did at the 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen.
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 Skills
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | When Added to Code of Points |
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| Uneven Bars | Magana | Triple back salto tucked | G | 2002 World Championships |
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- Mexican female artistic gymnasts
- Sportspeople from Guadalajara, Jalisco
- Gymnasts at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of Mexico
- Pan American Games silver medalists
- Pan American Games bronze medalists
- Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
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