Since the beginning of this century, Brazil has gone from a mere extra to an almost habitual presence on the podiums of the world gymnastics championships. And in the 2022 edition, which starts this Saturday (29) in Liverpool (GBR), there is a good chance that we will again be among the best in the world. Historically, Brazil has won sixteen medals – six gold, six silver and four bronze, won by seven gymnasts since the 2001 edition, when Daniele HipĆ³lito beat the world with his silver on floor.
Jade Barbosa, two bronzes
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The 31-year-old gymnast has been isolated until the 2021 World Cup, the most decorated Brazilian gymnast at the worlds. At the age of 16, she enchanted the world with an all-around bronze medal in 2007, tied with Vanessa Ferrari of Italy, and behind only Shawn Johnson of the United States and Steliana Nistor of Romania, the first Brazil medal that was not in the floor apparatus.
In 2010, after recovering from a serious wrist injury and being out of the national team for almost two years, he won bronze on vault, behind only Alicia Sacramone of the United States and Alya Mustafina in Russia.
In activity, Jade preferred not to play in the World Cup qualifiers to finish recovering from the serious injury suffered in 2019.
Daniele Hypolito, silver medal
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Brazil’s first medal in the gymnastics world cups was his. At the age of 17, Dani won silver on floor at the 2001 World Cup in Ghent, just behind Andrea Raducan from Romania, and put Brazil on the artistic gymnastics map. In the same championship, Dani finished fourth in the all-around and just missed out on his second medal. It ended up being the only World Championship medal in the career of the athlete, who was one of Brazil’s leading gymnasts in subsequent years.
Arthur Nory, a gold medal
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Nory is among the names on the list who can add to his collection, as he is present at Liverpool for the 2022 World Cup. 2019 in Stuttgart proves he finished fourth four years earlier in 2015.
Nory, 29, was the first Brazilian gymnast to win an Olympic medal before a world, he won bronze on floor at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.
Daiane dos Santos, a gold medal
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Brazil’s first world title in artistic gymnastics came two years after the first medal, in Anaheim in the United States. Daiane dos Santos enchanted the world at the age of 20 by beating Romania’s Catalina Ponor and Spain’s Elena GĆ³mez and performing the double pike twist for the first time, the move which has been dubbed ‘Dos Santos I’ (because Daiane has another movement, named after him, the Dos Santos II, the stretched double twist)
Daiane hit the beam again on the same apparatus in 2006, remaining in fourth place, 0.025 points behind Vanessa Ferrari, who was in bronze.
Rebeca Andrade, a gold medal and a silver
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Another name that can increase the collection and can increase a lot, since Rebeca is a favorite in at least three devices plus the whole. At Kitakyushu 2021, Rebeca, who came from an Olympic gold and silver medal, repeated the dose in the world, a gold medal on vault and a silver on uneven bars, the first Brazilian gymnast to win two medals in the same edition of the world.
If she wins a world championship medal, she surpasses Jade Barbosa as the Brazilian with the most world championship medals. And there are more records that can be broken by the gymnast: if she wins three or more medals, she will become the gymnast with the most medals won in a world edition and she will also be the highest Brazilian medalist in the world between men. and women. And if she wins a medal on another device, she becomes the first to stand on the Worlds podium on more than three devices. So look at it!
Arthur Zanetti, one gold medal and three silver
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The king of the rings came to the world at a world championship in artistic gymnastics held in Tokyo in 2011. Zanetti won silver, only behind Chen Ybing, a Chinese who was beaten by the Brazilian in the London Olympics the following year.
The world title came in 2013 in Antwerp and he won two more silver medals: Nanning in 2014 and Doha in 2018. Arthur Zanetti is the second Brazilian with more medals in the same apparatus and if it were not for a virus he suffered in early October, he would be with the men’s team looking for his fifth medal, tied with the first on the list
Diego HipĆ³lito, two gold medals, one silver and two bronze
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Diego HypĆ³lito was one of the Brazilian gymnasts who felt the most comfortable during the world championships. He has five medals, the highest in the category and all in the same apparatus, the floor. His first world title came in 2005, at the Melbourne World Cup, aged 19, beating Canadian Brandon O’Neill and Hungarian Robert Gal to silver and bronze respectively to become the first world champion Brazilian artistic gymnastics.
At Aarhus 2006 he won silver, losing to Romania’s Martin Dragulescu, but at Stuttgart 2007 Diego recovered and won the World Bi, the only Brazilian gymnast to achieve such a feat – Diego is also the most great Brazilian medalist in the same apparatus. Diego still obtained two bronzes, at the Tokyo edition in 2011 and at Nanning in 2014.
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