Yurany Avendaño

Yurany Avendaño
Full nameMelba Yurany Avendaño Romero
Born (1993-01-05) 5 January 1993
Cúcuta, Colombia
Height158 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country represented
Colombia Colombia
Medal record
Central American and Caribbean Games
Bronze medal – third place2014 VeracruzTeam
South American Games
Silver medal – second place2010 MedellínTeam
Bronze medal – third place2014 SantiagoTeam
Bronze medal – third place2014 SantiagoUneven bars
Bronze medal – third place2018 CochabambaTeam
South American Championships
Silver medal – second place2009 SogamosoTeam
Silver medal – second place2009 SogamosoVault
Silver medal – second place2011 SantiagoUneven bars
Silver medal – second place2012 RosarioAll-around
Silver medal – second place2015 CaliTeam
Bronze medal – third place2015 CaliAll-around
Bronze medal – third place2015 CaliVault
Bronze medal – third place2015 CaliUneven bars
Bolivarian Games
Gold medal – first place2017 Santa MartaTeam
Gold medal – first place2017 Santa MartaUneven bars
Silver medal – second place2017 Santa MartaAll-around

Melba Yurany Avendaño Romero (born 5 January 1993) is a Colombian artistic gymnast. She is a four-time South American Games medalist and the 2012 South American Championships all-around silver medalist. She won four medals at the 2015 South American Championships, and she is the 2017 Bolivarian Games uneven bars champion.

Gymnastics career

At the 2009 South American Championships, Avendaño won silver medals in the team competition and on the vault.[1] She then won another team silver medal at the 2010 South American Games.[2] She then competed at the 2010 World Championships and finished 34th with the Colombian team.[3] At the 2011 South American Championships, she won a silver medal on the uneven bars behind Valeria Pereyra.[4] She also helped Colombia place fourth at the 2011 Pan American Games.[5] In 2013, she dislocated and fractured her elbow and was out of competition for an entire year.[6] At the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games, she won a bronze medal with the Colombian team.[7]

Avendaño won the all-around title at the 2015 Colombian Championships.[8] At the 2015 South American Championships, she helped Colombia win the silver medal behind Brazil. Individually, she won bronze medals in the all-around and on the vault and uneven bars.[9] She then represented Colombia at the 2015 Pan American Games and finished tenth in the all-around final.[10] She tore her ACL while competing vault at the 2015 World Championships.[6] This injury caused her to miss the qualifying events for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[11]

Avendaño returned to competition after 18 months out at the 2017 Colombian Championships and won the all-around title by over a point. She also won gold medals in the vault and floor exercise finals.[12] At the 2017 Bolivarian Games, she helped Colombia win the team competition and also won a silver medal in the all-around. She then won another gold medal in the uneven bars final.[13]

Avendaño won a bronze medal with the Colombian team at the 2018 South American Games.[14] She stopped competing in 2018 and retired from competition.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Colombia, campeona por equipos en Suramericano de Gimnasia" [Colombia, team champion at the South American Gymnastics Championships]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 31 October 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Team Final Results" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. 23 March 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "42nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Rotterdam (NED) 16 - 24 October 2010 Team Results Women's Qualification" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. 16 October 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "10th South American Championships Sudamericano Mayores GA Lugar (CHI) 2011 Aug 4-7 Artistic Gymnastics Results Men and Women". Gymnastics Results. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "Women's Qualification & Team Final". Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  6. 1 2 "FIG athlete profile - Yurany Avendaño". World Gymnastics. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Cuban, Venezuelan gymnasts shine at the Central American and Caribbean Games". International Gymnastics Federation. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Dos cucuteños se coronaron campeones nacionales de gimnasia". La Opinion (in Spanish). 22 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "Colombia campeón suramericano por equipos de gimnasia, en mayores". La Opinion (in Spanish). 20 June 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  10. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Results Women's All Around Final". Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Turno ahora para los varones en el Mundial de Gimnasia de Glasgow". La Opinion (in Spanish). 25 October 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  12. ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (17 May 2024). "Avendaño Wins Three Golds at Nationals". The Gymternet. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  13. ↑ "La gimnasia entregó dos nuevas oros en los Juegos Bolivarianos". Ministry of Sport (in Spanish). 13 November 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  14. ↑ Hopkins, Lauren (3 June 2018). "2018 South American Games Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  15. ↑ "Yurany Avendaño". The Gymternet. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
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