Yesenia Saskia Ferrera Nuñez (born October 16, 1998) 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, Ferrera competed at the Pan American Championships in

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, Canada. She finished fourth in the all-around but claimed silver in the vault final and bronze in the floor final. Later, in November, she traveled to

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for the Central American and Caribbean Games. She clinched the vault and floor titles, also grabbing a bronze on balance beam.

2017

Ferrera returned to elite competition in June 2017 at the Central American Sports Festival in

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. She won the all-around competition, as well as the vault and floor titles too.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrera, Yesenia 1998 births Living people Cuban female artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Cuba Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Cuba Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Pan American Games silver medalists in gymnastics Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games 21st-century Cuban sportswomen