Nickname
Chesca (Facebook profile, 22 Aug 2019)
Occupation
Athlete
Spoken languages
Spanish
Club
Olympic Club: Chile
Coach
Christian Bruno [club, national], CHI
Injuries
In 2023 she sustained a shoulder injury. The issue did not prevent her from competing at that year's national championships in Chile. (Instagram profile, 03 Aug 2023)
Start sporting career
She took up gymnastics at age eight in Vina del Mar, Chile.
Reason for taking up the sport
The mother of one of her friends taught a gymnastics class and she joined in.
Hero / Idol
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci. (pasiongimnasia.wordpress.com, 22 Nov 2013)
Awards
In 2022 she received an acknowledgement from the municipality of Puente Alto, Chile, in recognition of her performance at the 2022 Bolivarian Games in Valledupar, Colombia. (portalpuentealto.cl, 05 Jul 2022)
Additional information
HIATUS
At age 13 she was forced to stop the sport for several years after she moved to Spain with her parents. "I retired because my father found a job as a waiter in Murcia, Spain, where my whole family was. I was 13 and I had to go with them. I went to the High Performance Centre in Madrid, I did some tests and everything was good, but because I wasn't Spanish, I couldn't stay there and they couldn't afford a place for me to stay because Madrid is very expensive. I went with the feeling something could be done, but there was nothing that could be done." She returned to competition in 2013. (latercera.com, 11 May 2015)
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