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Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. [1] Brazilian female artistic gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1980, except for 1996, when Soraya Carvalho qualified but had to withdraw before the start of the competition due to an ankle injury. [2] A total of 17 female gymnasts have represented Brazil.
It has also participated in the women's team competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 18 times. At the 2020 Olympic Games, Rebeca Andrade became the first Brazilian to win an Olympic medal in women's artistic gymnastics, winning silver in the individual all-around. [2]
Note: The International Gymnastics Federation recommended to the IOC that the medals of the Chinese team be stripped, and awarded to the fourth-placed United States team, as it was revealed that Dong Fangxiao was underage (14, with age limit >16) at the time. The IOC upheld the FIG decision in April 2010.
Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics events as well.
In a Sao Paulo suburb, where Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade started to train before becoming the country's most decorated Olympian in history, hundreds of new students dream to follow in her ...
Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. [1] Since then, 30 female gymnasts have won at least five total medals. The country with the most athletes on this list is the Soviet Union, with nine. Romania (6), United States (6), Hungary (4), East Germany (2), Russia (2), Brazil (1), and Czechoslovakia (1) are also ...
Brazil's women's gymnastics team, led by Rebeca Andrade, could challenge the U.S. and earn a historic medal at the world championships.
Souza represented Brazilian gymnastics team internationally from 2003 to 2008 and helped the Brazilian team qualify for two Summer Olympic Games. [2] In 2013, she took up the winter sport of freestyle skiing, and qualified in the aerials event for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but was paralyzed in an accident during training weeks before the ...