| Luisa Portocarrero | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Luisa Fernanda Portocarrero Diaz | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1977-05-05) May 5, 1977 (age 47) Guatemala | ||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | artistic gymnastic | ||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Guatemala | ||||||||||||||
| College team | UCLA Bruins (1995–99) | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Sport Seneca | ||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Valorie Kondos Field (UCLA) | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1995 of elite representing Guatemala | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Luisa Fernanda Portocarrero Diaz (born May 05, 1977) is a Guatemalan artistic gymnast. As an elite level gymnast, she represented Guatemala at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to the Olympics, she participated in the 1991 Pan American Games; winning a bronze in the balance beam. She placed as high as twelfth in the world at the 1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships also. Throughout her elite career, she trained at Sport Seneca, in Canada.
Following her elite career, she competed for the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team, at the University of California, Los Angeles – contributing to the team's first National title in 1997.
Eponymous skill
Portocarrero has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balance beam | Portocarrero | Free (aerial) walkover forward, landing on one foot in extended tuck sit, without hand support | D |
- Valid for the 2022-2024 Code of Points
References
- Luisa Portocarrero at Sports Reference
- "Gymbits » Blog Archive » Sport Seneca Style".
- "Gymn Forum: 1997 Women's NCAA Championships".
- "2022-2024 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. p. 210. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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