Alexa Moreno

Moreno in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Alexa Citlali Moreno Medina
Born	(1994-08-08)8 August 1994 (age 31) Mexicali,Mexico
Height	1.47 m (4 ft 10 in)[1]
Gymnastics career
Sport	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Mexico
Head coach	Alfredo Hueto
Assistant coach	Karla Retiz
Medal record Representing Mexico World Championships 2018 Doha Vault Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Team Pan American Championships 2023 Medellín Vault 2023 Medellín Team 2014 Mississauga Team 2018 Lima Team Pacific Rim Championships 2010 Melbourne Vault Central American and Caribbean Games 2010 Mayagüez Team 2014 Veracruz Team 2023 San Salvador Team 2023 San Salvador Vault 2023 San Salvador Floor exercise 2010 Mayagüez Vault 2023 San Salvador All-around 2023 San Salvador Balance beam FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd Apparatus World Cup 0 0 1 World Challenge Cup 2 3 1 Total 2 3 2

Alexa Citlali Moreno Medina (born 8 August 1994)^[2] is a Mexicanartistic gymnast. She is the2018 World bronze medalist onvault, the first Mexican female gymnast to medal at theWorld Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She representedMexico at the 2016 Summer Olympics where she was the second reserve forthe all-around final andat the 2020 Olympics where she placed fourth inthe vault final. She representedMexico at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where she was first reserve forthe vault final. She is the2023 Pan American champion on vault. She won a silver medal on vault at the2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and a bronze medal on vault at the2010 Pacific Rim Championships. She is also a seven-time medalist on theFIG World Cup circuit. She is the2011 Pan American Games and2014 and2018 Pan American Championships team bronze medalist and the 2010,2014, and2023 Central American and Caribbean Games team gold medalist.

Moreno began gymnastics when she was three years old.^[3]

Moreno won the bronze medal on the vault at the2010 Pacific Rim Championships behindDominique Pegg andEmily Little.^[4] Then at theCentral American and Caribbean Games, she won the team gold medal and also won the vault silver medal behind teammateElsa García.^[5] The Mexican team finished twenty-first duringthe qualification round for the2010 World Championships.^[6]

Moreno did not compete at the2011 Pan American Games due to a meniscus injury the day before the competition began, but she still received the bronze medal the Mexican team won.^[1] Then at theWorld Championships, the Mexican team finished seventeenth inthe qualification round, and Moreno qualified for the vault final where she finished seventh.^[7][8]

At the2012 Zibo World Challenge Cup, Moreno won the silver medal on the vault behindCheng Fei.^[9] Then at the Ghent World Challenge Cup, she won her firstFIG World Cup gold medal on the vault.^[10]

Moreno finished fourth with the Mexicanteam at the2013 Universiade, and she placed fifth inthe vault final.^[11][12]

Moreno won a bronze medal with the Mexican team at the2014 Pan American Championships. She also placed sixth in the all-around, seventh in the vault, and fifth in theuneven bars.^[13][14] At the2014 World Championships inNanning, China, she helped the Mexican team place fourteenth with qualified the team for the 2015 World Championships. She qualified for the vault final and placed seventh.^[15] Then at theCentral American and Caribbean Games, she won the gold medal with the Mexican team and also placed ninth in the all-around and eighth in the uneven bars.^[16]

Moreno won the bronze medal in the all-around at the 2015 Mexican Championships.^[17] She also won the all-around bronze medal at the Olimpiada Nacional.^[18] Then at theAnadia World Challenge Cup, she won the silver medal on the vault behindMarcia Videaux.^[19] She missed the2015 Pan American Games due to a broken cheekbone.^[1] She returned to competition at theWorld Championships and finished seventh in the vault final.^[20] After the World Championships, she finished seventh in the all-around at the Arthur Gander Memorial.^[21] Then at the Swiss Cup, she competed on a mixed-team withDaniel Corral, and they finished eighth.^[22]

Morenoqualified for the2016 Olympic Games at theOlympic Test Event where she finished twenty-second in the all-around.^[23][24] She then won the silver medal on the vault at theAnadia World Challenge Cup behindMarcia Videaux.^[25] She representedMexico at the 2016 Summer Olympics and finished thirty-first in the all-around duringthe qualification round, making her the second reserve forthe all-around final.^[26]

Moreno did not compete in 2017 to focus on her studies.^[3]

Moreno won the all-around bronze medal at the 2018 Mexican Championships and won the vault title.^[27] Then at the Mexican Trial Meet, she won the silver medal in the all-around behindFrida Esparza.^[28] She won the team bronze medal at thePan American Championships and also placed fourth in the all-around.^[29] She won the vault bronze medal at the2018 World Championships inDoha behindSimone Biles andShallon Olsen and became the first Mexican female gymnast to win a medal at theWorld Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[30][31] She was only the second Mexican gymnast to win a World medal afterDaniel Corral won a silver medal on the pommel horse in 2013.^[32] After the World Championships, she competed at the Cottbus World Cup and finished fourth on the vault.^[33] Additionally, the Mexican team placed nineteenth in the qualification round.^[34] She then competed at the Toyota International and won the gold medal on the vault and placed eighth on thefloor exercise.^[35]

Moreno finished fourth on the vault at the2019 Melbourne World Cup.^[36] She then won the bronze medal on the vault at the Baku World Cup behindJade Carey andOksana Chusovitina.^[37] She once again placed fourth on the vault at the Doha World Cup.^[38] At the Mexican Championships, she won the vault title and placed seventh in the all-around. Then at the Korea Cup, she won the bronze medal on the vault behindYeo Seo-jeong andOksana Chusovitina.^[39] At the2019 World Championships inStuttgart, she finished sixth in the vault final andqualified for the 2020 Olympics with her fortieth-place all-around finish in the qualification round.^[40][41][42]

Moreno representedMexico at the 2020 Summer Olympics and became only the second Mexican female gymnast to qualify for a final afterDenisse López qualified for the vault final at the2000 Olympic Games.^[43] She finished fourth inthe vault final by less than one-tenth behind bronze medalistYeo Seo-jeong.^[44] She announced her retirement after the Olympics.^[45]

In March 2023, Moreno announced her return to training and intent to attend the2023 Pan American Championships in Medellín, Colombia.^[46] She represented Mexico at the2023 Pan American Championships, where she earned a gold medal on the vault with a score of 13.700.^[47] Additionally, she helped the Mexican team win the silver medal behind the United States.^[48] She was the female flag bearer for Mexico at the2023 Central American and Caribbean Games inSan Salvador, El Salvador, where she won gold medals with the team and on floor exercise and vault. She also won the silver medal in the all-around and the bronze medal on the balance beam.^[49][50]

At the2023 Paris World Challenge Cup, Moreno won gold in the vault final as well as bronze in the floor exercise final behindMélanie de Jesus dos Santos andJade Barbosa.^[51][52] Then at theWorld Championships, the Mexican team finished 14th in the qualification round, missing out on ateam quota for the 2024 Olympic Games by two positions.^[53] However, Moreno secured an individual quota by finishing third all-around among the eligible athletes.^[54] She finished 18th in the all-around final and fourth in the vault final.^[55][56] She representedMexico at the 2023 Pan American Games despite dealing with a knee injury. She only competed on the uneven bars and helped the Mexican team finish fourth.^[57]

Moreno competed in two stops of the2024 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series. At the Varna World Challenge Cup, she earned a bronze medal on vault with a score of 13.750.^[58][59][60] At the Koper World Challenge Cup, she earned a gold medal on vault with a score of 13.600.^[59][61]

At the2024 Olympic Games Moreno was the first reserve for the vault final.

In November 2019, Moreno won thePremio Nacional de Deportes 2019 (National Sports Prize 2019) in the "non-professional" category.^[62] Also in 2019, she won the Woman of the Year poll in theEl Financiero newspaper and was recognized as one of the 100 most powerful women in Mexico byForbes Mexico magazine.^[31][63]

Moreno starred in aToyota commercial during the2020 Tokyo Olympics, and Toyota is one of her sponsors.^[64][65]

During the2016 Olympics, Moreno was bullied and fat-shamed on social media.^[66] In December 2021, she graduated with a degree in Architecture from the University of the Valley of Mexico, Mexicali campus.^[31][67] She admires Mexican Taekwondo athleteMaría Espinoza.^[68] She is a k-pop and anime fan and her floor music at the2020 Olympics is from the anime 'Demon Slayer'.^[69][70]

Moreno has one uneven bars release move named after her in theCode of Points.^[71]

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
2010	Pacific Rim Championships
	Central American and Caribbean Games
	World Championships	21
2011
	Pan American Games
	World Championships	17		7
2012	Zibo World Challenge Cup
	Ghent World Challenge Cup
2013	Summer Universiade	4		5
2014
	Pan American Championships		6	7	5
	World Championships	14		7
	Central American and Caribbean Games		9		8
2015	Mexican Championships			4
	Olimpiada Nacional					10
	Anadia World Challenge Cup						5
	World Championships	21		7
	Arthur Gander Memorial		7
	Swiss Cup	8
2016	Olympic Test Event		22
	Anadia World Challenge Cup						4
	Olympic Games		R2
2018	Mexican Championships				6		29
	Mexican Trial Meet					5
	Pan American Championships		4	5	13	10	8
	World Championships	19
	Cottbus World Cup			4
	Toyota International						8
2019	Melbourne World Cup			4
	Baku World Cup
	Doha World Cup			4
	Mexican Championships		7		4	19	10
	Korea Cup
	World Championships	21	40	6
2021
	Olympic Games			4
2023
	Pan American Championships		5
	Central American & Caribbean Games
	Paris World Challenge Cup
	World Championships	14	18	4
	Pan American Games	4
2024
	Varna World Challenge Cup
	Koper World Challenge Cup
	Olympic Games		43	R1

• Alexa Moreno atOlympedia
• Alexa Moreno at theInternational Gymnastics Federation

• Living people
• Mexican female artistic gymnasts
• 1994 births
• Sportspeople from Mexicali
• Gymnasts at the 2011 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
• Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gymnasts for Mexico
• Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• Pan American Games bronze medalists in gymnastics
• Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico
• Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico
• Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
• Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
• Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in gymnastics
• Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
• Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• 21st-century Mexican sportswomen
• Gymnasts at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Gymnasts at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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