Alyiah Danais Lide de León (born July 24, 2009) is a Panamanian artistic gymnast. She is the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games champion on balance beam and floor exercise. She was also the 2025 Bolivarian Games all-around champion. Lide will represent Panama at the 2026 World Championships.
Junior career Lide competed for Panama at the 2023 Junior World Championships, where her best results were 45th in the all-around and 20th on balance beam.
At the beginning of 2024, Lide won four gold medals at the inaugural Bolivarian Youth Games, including all-around gold. Additionally, at the 2024 Junior Pan American Championships, Lide finished eighth in the all-around and qualified for the balance beam final, where she also finished eighth.
Lide participated in the Junior South American Championships in 2022, 2023, and 2024, winning several medals, including gold on vault in 2024. She also won five individual gold medals at the 2024 Junior Pacific Rim Championships.
Senior career
2025 Lide made her senior debut at the 2025 Varna World Challenge Cup, competing on balance beam and floor exercise. She qualified for the floor final and finished in fourth place. She also competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup later in 2025, though she did not advance to any finals.
At the 2025 Pan American Championships, she contributed to Panama's fifth-place finish as a team, in addition to placing fifth on balance beam and seventh on floor exercise.
Lide won a medal on every event at the 2025 Central American Games, including gold on balance beam and floor exercise. At the Bolivarian Games in November, she won the team gold medal for Panama with teammates Karla Navas, Hillary Heron, Tatiana Tapia, and Ana Gabriela Gutiérrez. Individually, she won all-around gold as well as silver on floor.
2026 Lide began the 2026 season at the Osijek World Cup. She competed on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Her twelfth place finish on floor allowed her to secure a spot at the 2026 World Championships in Rotterdam as an apparatus specialist.
The Panamanian team finished sixth at the 2026 Pan American Championships, and although Lide finished 21st in all-around qualifications, she was not eligible for the all-around final due to the two-per-country rule. She also did not advance to any event finals.
Lide competed at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games, where she contributed to Panama's silver-medal finish as a team. Individually, she won the gold medal on both balance beam and floor exercise.
Competitive history +Competitive history of Alyiah Lide de León at the junior levelYearEvent 2022 Junior South American Championships 4 9 2023 Junior World Championships 19 45 27 97 20 45 Junior South American Championships 9 6 4 8 2024 Bolivarian Youth Games Junior Pacific Rim Championships Junior Pan American Championships 5 8 8 Junior South American Championships
+Competitive history of Alyiah Lide de León at the senior levelYearEvent 2025 Varna World Challenge Cup 4 Pan American Championships 5 5 7 Paris World Challenge Cup Central American Games Bolivarian Games 4 2026 Osijek World Cup Pan American Championships 6 Central American and Caribbean Games 4 6 South American Games
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