Luisa Portocarrero Explained

Luisa Portocarrero
Fullname:Luisa Fernanda Portocarrero Diaz
Birth Date:5 May 1977
Birth Place:Guatemala
Discipline:artistic gymnastic
Club:Sport Seneca
Collegeteam:UCLA Bruins
(1995–99)
Headcoach:Valorie Kondos Field (UCLA)
Retired:1995 of elite representing Guatemala

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.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3]

Eponymous skill

Portocarrero has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418121343/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/luisa-portocarrero-1.html Luisa Portocarrero at Sports Reference
  2. Web site: Gymbits » Blog Archive » Sport Seneca Style.
  3. Web site: Gymn Forum: 1997 Women's NCAA Championships.
  4. Web site: 2022-2024 Code of Points Women’s Artistic Gymnastics . . 22 January 2022 . 210.