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BRENDA MAGAÑA
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 somersalt from the bars, which she
did at the 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen. This move is unusual even amongst male gymnasts,
and in the women's code of points it bears her name. "The Magaña" is still the most difficult dismount on the uneven bars.
She began practicing Gymnastics at the age of three at the Club Deportivo Atlas Paradero in Guadalajara. She was
five years old when she participated in her first international competition in Czechoslovakia.
For more information, visit her
profile page on the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique website.
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