Luisa Portocarrero

Luisa Portocarrero
Full name	Luisa Fernanda Portocarrero Diaz
Born	(1977-05-05) May 5, 1977 (age 47) Guatemala
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Guatemala
College team	UCLA Bruins (1995–99)
Club	Sport Seneca
Head coach(es)	Valorie Kondos Field (UCLA)
Retired	1995 of elite representing Guatemala
Medal record Representing   Guatemala Women's artistic gymnastics Pan American Games 1991 Havana Balance Beam

Luisa Fernanda Portocarrero Diaz (born May 05, 1977) is a Guatemalan artistic gymnast. As an elite level gymnast, she represented Guatemala at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain. ^[1] In addition to the Olympics, she participated in the 1991 Pan American Games; winning a bronze in the balance beam. She placed as high as twelfth in the world at the 1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships also. Throughout her elite career, she trained at Sport Seneca, in Canada. ^[2]

Following her elite career, she competed for the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team, at the University of California, Los Angeles – contributing to the team's first National title in 1997. ^[3]

Eponymous skill

Portocarrero has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points. ^{[4] [5]}

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty [a]
Balance beam	Portocarrero	Free (aerial) walkover forward, landing on one foot in extended tuck sit, without hand support	D (0.4)

1. Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points

References

1. Luisa Portocarrero at Sports Reference
2. "Gymbits » Blog Archive » Sport Seneca Style".
3. "Gymn Forum: 1997 Women's NCAA Championships".
4. "2022-2024 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation . p. 210. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
5. "Women's Artistic Gymnastics – 2025-2028 Code of Points" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation . 22 April 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.