Yeny Contreras

Yeny Contreras

Personal information

Surname:

Yeny Contreras Loyola

Nationality:

Chile

Birthday:

2nd August 1979

Place of birth:

Coronel

Size:

167 cm

Medals

Pan American Games
bronze	Guadalajara 2011	up to 57 kg
Pan American Championships
gold	Lima 1998	up to 47 kg
gold	Quito 2002	up to 51 kg
bronze	Santo Domingo 2004	up to 51 kg
bronze	Monterrey 2010	up to 49 kg

Yeny Contreras Loyola (born August 2, 1979 in Coronel ) is a Chilean Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 57 kilograms.

Contreras came to Taekwondo when he was ten. She played her first international title fights at the 1995 World Cup in Manila , but retired after her opening fight. In 1998 she was in Lima in the class up to 47 kilograms Pan American champion, in 2002 she repeated the title win in Quito in the class up to 51 kilograms. In the following years, Contreras remained successful in continental championships. In addition to two bronze medals at the Pan American Championships in 2004 and 2006, she also won bronze at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara in the class up to 49 kilograms. She celebrated her greatest success at the Pan-American Olympic qualification competition in Santiago de Querétaro , where she reached the final against Nidia Muñoz in the class up to 57 kilograms and qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . She is the first Chilean Taekwondoin to take part in the Olympic Games. In the first round she was eliminated from the later bronze medalist Marlène Harnois .

Contreras studied science at the Universidad de Chile , where she still works today.

Web links

Yeny Contreras on the TaekwondoData.com website
Yeny Contreras in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Taekwondista chilena clasificada a Londres 2012: El Sueño de Yeny Contreras. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 18, 2012 ; Retrieved July 8, 2012 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Contreras, Yeny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Contreras Loyola, Yeny (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd August 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coronel , Chile

[1] Taekwondista chilena clasificada a Londres 2012: El Sueño de Yeny Contreras. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 18, 2012 ; Retrieved July 8, 2012 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2