Yamilet Peña

Yamilet Peña
Full nameYamilet Peña Abreu
Nickname(s)Chiqui
Born (1992-12-04) 4 December 1992
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Height1.42 m (4 ft 8 in)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented
Dominican Republic
(2001-)
Head coach(es)Yoandris Tamayo
Assistant coach(es)Jose Gabriel Valerio
Former coach(es)Francisco Susana
MusicLa llave de mi corazón from Juan Luis Guerra

Yamilet Peña Abreu (born 4 December 1992 in Santo Domingo) is an elite artistic gymnast from the Dominican Republic who won a gold medal at the 2014 World Challenge Cup and the 2012 Pan American Championship in vault and a bronze medal at the 2012 World Cup. She is known for her execution of the Produnovaa handspring double front on vault. She qualified for the vault finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2011 and the 2013 World Championships.

Peña won a silver medal in vault during the IV ALBA Games and qualified for the finals in the same apparatus at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 2011 Pan American Games. Peña won the women's artistic gymnastics Athlete of the Year by the Dominican Republic Olympic Committee from 2008 to 2013.