The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from Cuba
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cuban Gymnasts of all time. This list of famous Cuban Gymnasts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Danell Leyva (1991 - )
With an HPI of 16.63, Danell Leyva is the most famous Cuban Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Danell Johan Leyva (born October 30, 1991) is a Cuban American former gymnast who competed for the United States. He is the 2012 Olympic individual all-around bronze medalist and 2016 Olympic parallel bars and horizontal bar silver medalist. He is also the 2011 US national all-around gold medalist and the 2011 world champion on the parallel bars. With a combined total of 8 Olympic and World Championships medals, Leyva is the second most decorated American male gymnast after Paul Hamm. In gymnastics, Leyva was a specialist on parallel bars and horizontal bar, having his own signature move (jam-dislocate-hop to undergrips) on the latter.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as gymnasts born between 1991 and 1991. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living gymnasts include Danell Leyva.
