Rebeca Andrade

Rebeca Andrade
Andrade with a gold medal. She is a dark-skinned woman in her mid twenties with curly, brown hair wearing a yellow sports jersey.
Andrade at the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Paris
Personal information
Full nameRebeca Rodrigues de Andrade
Nickname(s)"Rebe"
Born (1999-05-08) 8 May 1999 (age 25)
Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil
Height151 cm (4 ft 11 in)[1]
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2012–present (BRA)
ClubClube de Regatas do Flamengo[2]
Head coach(es)Francisco Porath
Former coach(es)Keli Tiemi Kitaura, Alexander Alexandrov, Valery Liukin
Music
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
Women's artistic gymnastics
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 3 1
World Championships 3 4 2
Pan American Games 2 2 0
Pan American Championships 4 2 0
Total 11 11 3
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Vault
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Floor exercise
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo All-around
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris All-around
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Kitakyushu Vault
Gold medal – first place 2022 Liverpool All-around
Gold medal – first place 2023 Antwerp Vault
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kitakyushu Uneven bars
Silver medal – second place 2023 Antwerp All-around
Silver medal – second place 2023 Antwerp Floor exercise
Silver medal – second place 2023 Antwerp Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Liverpool Floor exercise
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Antwerp Balance beam
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Vault
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Balance beam
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago Team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago Uneven bars
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Rio de Janeiro Team
Gold medal – first place 2021 Rio de Janeiro All-around
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rio de Janeiro Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rio de Janeiro Uneven bars
Silver medal – second place 2018 Lima Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Rio de Janeiro Balance beam
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Cup 3 1 1
World Challenge Cup 3 7 2
Total 6 8 3

Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁeˈbɛkɐ ʁoˈdɾiɡis dʒi ɐ̃ˈdɾadʒi]; born 8 May 1999)[1] is a Brazilian artistic gymnast. Having won a total of six Olympic and nine World medals, she is the most decorated Brazilian and Latin American gymnast of all time, as well as the most decorated Brazilian Olympian in any discipline.[3] In the all-around, she is the 2022 World champion, a two-time Olympic silver medalist (2020, 2024), the 2023 World silver medalist, and the 2021 Pan American champion. On vault, she is the 2020 Olympic gold medalist, the 2024 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time World Champion (2021, 2023), and the 2023 Pan American Games champion. In the floor exercise, she is the 2024 Olympic gold medalist, 2023 World silver medallist, and 2022 World bronze medallist. She led the Brazilian team to its first ever team medals at the 2023 World Championships (silver) and the 2024 Olympics (bronze), as well as the gold medal at the 2021 Pan American Championships.

Andrade is the first Brazilian female gymnast to medal at an Olympic Games and only the second Brazilian woman to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Andrade is one of only 11 female gymnasts to have medalled on every event in the history of World Championships, and one of only three gymnasts to have done so in the 21st century, alongside Simone Biles and Aliya Mustafina.

At the junior level, she is the 2012 Junior Pan American champion in the all-around and on vault and floor exercise, and the 2014 Junior Pan American champion on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam. After a successful junior career, Andrade's senior debut in 2015 was cut short by the first of three ACL tears. She returned to competition and represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she placed eleventh in the all-around final. She tore her ACL for the second time in 2017, but made her World Championships debut in 2018. After her third ACL tear in 2019, Andrade represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics and at the 2021 World Championships, where she won the vault gold medal at both events.

  1. ^ a b "Rebeca Andrade". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Andrade Rebeca". Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Andrade upsets Biles on floor to become most decorated Brazilian Olympian, Biles takes silver; Chiles bronze | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com.