Camilo Vera
Keynher Camilo Vera Carrascal 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.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. In early 2023, Vera suffered a spinal injury that required him to undergo stem cell treatment in Bogotá.. 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.In early 2024 Vera competed at the inaugural Bolivarian Youth Games where he won gold in the all-around. He next competed at the 2024 Pacific Rim Championships where he won again won gold in the all-around.
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. 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. He was one of only two competitors to win two individual titles alongside Arsenii Dukhno.