Daiane dos Santos

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Daiane dos Santos
dos Santos in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Daiane Garcia dos Santos
Nickname(s)	Dai
Country represented	Brazil
Born	(1983-02-10) February 10, 1983 (age 41) Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Height	145 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior international elite
Years on national team	1998–2013 (BRA)
Club	Grêmio Náutico União
Head coach(es)	Oleg Ostapenko
Assistant coach(es)	Iryna Ilyashenko
Choreographer	Nadejda Ostapenko
Eponymous skills	Dos Santos I Dos Santos II
Retired	2013
Medal record Representing  Brazil Women's artistic gymnastics Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 1 0 0 World Cup Final 2 0 0 FIG World Challenge Cup 0 0 1 Total 3 0 1 World Championships 2003 Anaheim Floor Exercise World Cup Final 2004 Birmingham Floor Exercise 2006 São Paulo Floor Exercise Universiade 2005 Izmir Floor Exercise 2001 Beijing Floor Exercise Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg Vault 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team 1999 Winnipeg Floor Exercise 1999 Winnipeg Team 2003 Santo Domingo Team Pan American Championships 2001 Cancún Floor Exercise 2001 Cancún Team 2001 Cancún Vault South American Games 1998 Cuenca Team 1998 Cuenca Vault 1998 Cuenca Floor Exercise

Daiane Garcia dos Santos (born February 10, 1983) is a retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2003 world champion on the floor apparatus. On doing so, she became the first black gymnast to ever win an event at the World Championships as well as the first Brazilian and South American to win the competition. She represented Brazil at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. Widely regarded as the most powerful tumbler of her generation by critics and fellow competitors alike, the gymnast had two eponymous skills added on the FIG code of points after being the first woman to compete them at international championships. Dos Santos I, an F rated element, and Dos Santos II, an H rated element on the 2017–2020 COP.