Ana Villanueva
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| Full name | Ana Josefa Villanueva Fabián | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dominican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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20 March 1982 Cotuí, Dominican Republic |
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| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Dominican Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Karate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Under 50 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ana Josefa Villanueva Fabián (born March 20, 1982 in Cotuí) is a karateka from the Dominican Republic who won the gold medal at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games.
Villanueva started practicing boxing and volleyball. She is a student of Accounting at Universidad Organización y Método and is a member of the Dominican Air Force; there she received the promotion to Sergeant major in 2011.
Ana took the money she collected after the 2011 Pan American Games winning, to repay the mortgage loan over her family house. They used the mortgage to fund the liver cancer treatment for one of Villanueva's brothers.
Villanueva win the gold medal at the team kumite competition during the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, held in Colombia.
At the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championship held in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Ana win the old medal at the Team Kumite category and the silver at the under 50 kg. The next year, she took the gold medal in under 50 kg and bronze in the open category medal at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Championships
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