Danell Leyva

Danell Leyva
Full name	Danell Leyva Gonzalez
Country represented	United States
Born	October 30, 1991 (1991-10-30) (age 20) Cardenas, Matanzas, Cuba
Residence	Miami, Florida
Height	5'7"
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	Universal Gymnastics
Head coach(es)	Yin Alvarez
Medal record World Championships Gold 2011 Tokyo Parallel Bars Bronze 2011 Tokyo Team

Danell Leyva (born Danell Leyva Gonzalez on October 30, 1991 in Cardenas, Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban-American gymnast. He is the 2011 U.S national all-around gold medalist and the 2011 world champion on the parallel bars.

In 2010, he was the U.S. gold medalist on the parallel bars and the all-around silver medalist. In 2009, he became the youngest member of the U.S. national Senior team at age 17, and won the gold medal on the horizontal bar and the silver medal on the parallel bars. Not only a good all-arounder, he's a high bar specialist with a signature move (jam-dislocate-hop to undergrips) and is also famous for the theatrics of his coach/stepfather during his routines.

In 2008, at the Junior National Championships, Leyva won the all-around, high bar, parallel bars, and pommel horse titles. Leyva was also the High Bar champion at the 2008 Pan American Championships in Argentina.

His stepfather and coach, Yin Alvarez and mother, Maria Gonzalez, were both members of Cuba's national gymnastics team. Gonzalez and Leyva defected to Miami when Leyva was a year old.^[1]

References

1. ^ ROBERTSON, LINDA (October 16, 2009). "Cuban gymnast is raising the bar on the competition". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/other/story/1285320.html. Retrieved October 31, 2009. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Danell Leyva at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• Danell Leyva at USA Gymnastics
• Associated Press Archive, U.S. Gymnastic Championship Results, August 16, 2007
• The Miami Herald, LOCAL GYMNASTS WIN 11 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS; July 12, 1998.
• Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA), GYMNASTICS, August 15, 2009
• The Miami Herald, INTERNATIONAL GYMNASTS KEEP EYES ON THE PRIZE, November 8, 2007.
• The Boston Globe; Chicago never had a Chance by John Powers; October 13, 2009
• "United States Enters the World Championships Seeking the Next Liukin". Associated Press at the New York Times. October 10, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/sports/11gymnastics.html. Retrieved October 31, 2009. 
• http://www.peru.com/deportes/noticias/AutoNoticias/DetalleNoticia19520.asp Estadounidense brilla en Panamericana de Gimnasia; November 26, 2004.
• El Periódico (Guatemala); Estadounidense Dominan by Juan Meono, November 24, 2007.

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Name	Leyva, Danell
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Date of birth	October 30, 1991
Place of birth	Cardenas, Matanzas, Cuba
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