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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 .
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.
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.
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.
The women’s final marks the first time since the Olympics began offering an individual gold medal in the all-around in 1952 that there have been multiple Olympic champions in the same final.
This was Brazil's second women's gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first being Daiane dos Santos's gold medal on the floor exercise in 2003. [87] Then in the uneven bars final, she scored a 14.633 and won the silver medal behind Chinese gymnast Wei Xiaoyuan becoming the first Brazilian gymnast to win a World medal ...
The Olympic schedule for Monday, Aug. 5, is filled with exciting events and record-breaking athletes, so be sure to tune in.. Highlights include the women’s gymnastics balance beam finals, where ...
Martins quit her job as an educator to commit to her daughters' dream, waking up at 4 a.m. every morning. Manuela's training goes from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Melissa's from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. while ...