Brenda Magaña Athlete
Brenda Magaña Almaral 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.