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The greatest Cuban gymnast of all time and Olympic medallist for the United States, seemed doomed to fail.
When she was 6 years old, Hatch was selected to attend a special boarding school in Cuba for gifted athletes, leaving behind a traditional....
Annia Hatch
Cuban-American artistic gymnast
Annia Portuondo Hatch (born June 14, 1978, in Guantánamo, Cuba)[1] is a Cuban-Americanartistic gymnast who competed for the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Career in Cuba
Hatch began gymnastics in her native Cuba at the age of four.[2][3] She won her first Cuban National Championships when she was ten;[3] over the course of her career, she would win the title seven times.[3][4]
Competing for Cuba, Hatch made her debut at the World Gymnastics Championships in 1993 and placed tenth in the all-around.[1] In 1995, she won three medals at the Pan American Games, placing second on the balance beam and third on the vault and uneven bars, as well as fourth in the all-around.[1] The following year, she became the first Cuban gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships, with a bronze on the vault.[1][4]
Hatch qualified to