Camilo Vera
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| Full name | Keynher Camilo Vera Carrascal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 28, 2007 Cúcuta, Colombia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Colombia (2018–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Liga Norte de Santander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Jairo Ruiz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Keynher Camilo Vera Carrascal (born February 28, 2007) is a Colombian artistic gymnast. He is the 2025 Junior World Champion on parallel bars and horizontal bar. Additionally he was a three-time gold medalist at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games.
Early life
Vera was born in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander. He has two siblings, Jhan Carlos and Dana, who are judokas. He began training gymnastics under Jairo Ruiz and alongside Ángel Barajas. For a brief period when Vera was 11, his family moved to a farm in Catatumbo where he and his siblings trained in a makeshift gym built with sticks, cement, and bricks in a corner of their family farm. His family moved back to Cúcuta due to the ongoing guerrilla violence in the region.[1]
Junior gymnastics career
Vera competed at the 2022 Pan American Championships where he helped Colombia finish fourth as a team. Individually he won gold on pommel horse and parallel bars and won bronze in the all-around behind Fred Richard and Ángel Barajas.[2][3] In early 2023, Vera suffered a spinal injury that required him to undergo stem cell treatment in Bogotá.[4]. At the 2023 Junior South American Championships he helped Colombia win team gold and individually he won gold in the all-around and on floor exercise, rings, and horizontal bar.[5]
In early 2024 Vera competed at the inaugural Bolivarian Youth Games where he won gold in the all-around.[6] He next competed at the 2024 Pacific Rim Championships where he won again won gold in the all-around.[7]
Vera competed at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games where he helped Colombian finish second as a team. Individually he won gold on vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.[8] He ended the year competing at the 2025 Junior World Championships where he co-won gold on the parallel bars alongside Nao Ojima and outright won the title on horizontal bar.[4] He was one of only two competitors to win two individual titles alongside Arsenii Dukhno.[9]
Competitive history
| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2018 | Colombian Championships | ||||||||
| 2019 | Colombian Championships | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| 2022 | |||||||||
| Pan American Championships | 4 | 6 | 7 | ||||||
| 2023 | Colombian Championships | ||||||||
| 2nd Colombian Championships | |||||||||
| Junior South American Championships | 7 | 7 | |||||||
| 2024 | Bolivarian Youth Games | 7 | |||||||
| Pacific Rim Championships | 5 | ||||||||
| Colombian Championships | 4 | ||||||||
| Pan American Championships | 7 | ||||||||
| 2025 | Colombian Championships | ||||||||
| Junior Pan American Games | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Junior World Championships | 12 | 14 |
References
- ^ "Del Catatumbo para el mundo" [From Catatumbo to the world]. Colombian Olympic Committee (in Spanish). February 25, 2025.
- ^ "U.S. juniors sweep team, all-around titles on first day of artistic competition at 2022 Pan American Championships". USA Gymnastics. July 14, 2022.
- ^ "Richard, Sumanasekera, Zhou golden on final day of Junior Pan American Championships". USA Gymnastics. July 16, 2022.
- ^ a b "Las lágrimas que valen oro: Camilo Vera, el bicampeón que venció las lesiones y honró a su mamá en el podio mundial" [Tears that are worth their weight in gold: Camilo Vera, the two-time champion who overcame injuries and honored his mother on the world podium]. El Colombiano. November 25, 2025.
- ^ "2023 South American Junior Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. September 2, 2023.
- ^ "Con Camilo Vera sigue la cosecha de gimnastas cucuteños" [Camilo Vera continues the crop of Cúcuta gymnasts]. Colombian Olympic Committee (in Spanish). April 23, 2024.
- ^ "2024 Pacific Rim Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. April 29, 2024.
- ^ "2025 Junior Pan American Games Event Final Results" (PDF). USA Gymnastics.
- ^ "Two victories for Vera in 'veni vidi vici' performance at Junior Worlds". International Gymnastics Federation. November 24, 2025.