Occupation
Athlete
Family
Partner Leandro Ferlini
Spoken languages
Portuguese
Club
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo: Rio de Janeiro, BRA
Coach
Francisco Porath Neto [national], BRA
Injuries
A knee problem meant she missed the 2022 Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (ge.globo.com, 09 Jul 2022)
In 2021 she sprained her left knee during a training session and had to miss both the 2021 Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (folha.uol.com.br, 04 Jun 2021)
She sustained a minor sprain in her left knee while training at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Brazilian officials decided she would not take part in the competition in order to give her time to recover for the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. In Germany she tore the anterior cruciate ligament [ACL] in her right knee. She underwent surgery and was unable to train for about five months. (globoesporte.globo.com, 27 Jul 2019; esporte.ig.com.br, 27 Jul 2019; globoesporte.globo.com, 08 Oct 2019; olimpiadatododia.com.br, 19 May 2020)
She tore the ACL in her left knee in August 2014. She required surgery and returned to competition in June 2015. (mg.superesportes.com.br, 17 Jun 2015)
She tore a ligament in her right foot in July 2013 and missed the 2013 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. (torcidaflamengo.com.br, 11 Sep 2013)
She was troubled by a hand injury during 2008 and 2009. She suffered from dead tissue in her right wrist, which affected her performance at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She took a break to let the injury heal and made her comeback in December 2009. (gympower.nl, 09 Dec 2009; intlgymnast.com, 13 Apr 2009; gymallthetime.blogspot.com, 28 Dec 2008)
Start sporting career
She took up gymnastics at about age five.
Reason for taking up the sport
She became interested in the sport after watching it on television. Her mother then signed her up for a gymnastics club.
Ambitions
To compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (ge.globo.com, 09 Jul 2022)
Most influential person in career
Her mother. (uol.com.br, 04 May 2020)
Awards
She was named Brazil's 2007 Sportswoman of the Year. (intlgymnast.com, 13 Apr 2009)
Additional information
GYMNASTICS HELP
Gymnastics helped her to deal with the loss of her mother at age nine. "When I lost my mother I didn't know how to overcome it and gymnastics embraced me. I don't know what I'd have become without gymnastics. Instead of being at home, crying and thinking about what would life be like if she were still there, I was surrounded by people who loved and supported me. Gymnastics gave me the chance to be closer to my mother. She lived well, she was happy and she gave me all of that. She wanted gymnastics to make me happy, and she was right." (uol.com.br, 04 May 2020)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
In 2017 she appeared on the reality television show 'Dancing Brasil'. She reached the final of the show, alongside dancing partner Lucas Teodoro, and finished in second place. (observatoriodosfamosos.bol.uol.com.br, 09 May 2018; purepeople.com.br, 25 Jun 2017)
Last update : 2024-07-22
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