Yamilet Peña
| Yamilet Peña | |
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| — Gymnast — | |
| Full name | Yamilet Peña Abreu |
| Nickname(s) | Chiqui |
| Country represented | Dominican Republic |
| Born |
December 4, 1992 Santo Domingo |
| Height | 1.42 m (4 ft 8 in) |
| Discipline | Women's artistic 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 |
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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 2014 World Challenge Cup and the 2012 Pan American Championship in 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. She qualified 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 Committee from 2008 to 2013.
Peña was born on December 4, 1992 in Villa Duarte, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. She is 142 cm (4 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 48 kilograms (106 lb). Her parents are German Peña, a tailor and Angela Abreu, a housewife. She attended Ramón Matías Mella Elementary School and Centro Educativo Marillac High School. 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. As of September 2013, she studies in Universidad Iberoamericana a B.S. in Psychology thanks to the scholarship given by ARS Universal.
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