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Flávia Saraiva
Saraiva at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full nameFlávia Lopes Saraiva
Country represented Brazil
Born (1999-09-30) September 30, 1999 (age 24)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height1.33 m (4 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight31 kg (68 lb)
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior international elite
Years on national team2012–present
ClubFlamengo[2]
Head coach(es)Francisco Porath Neto
Assistant coach(es)Juliana Fajardo
Former coach(es)Alexandre Carvalho[2]
Medal record
Women's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Toronto Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Toronto All-around
Pan American Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Lima Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Lima Balance beam
Silver medal – second place 2018 Lima Floor exercise
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Lima All-around
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Cochabamba Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Cochabamba Uneven bars
Gold medal – first place 2018 Cochabamba Balance beam
Silver medal – second place 2018 Cochabamba All-around
Youth Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Nanjing Floor exercise
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nanjing All-around
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nanjing Balance beam

Flávia Lopes Saraiva (born September 30, 1999) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast. She represented Brazil at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China[3] and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Junior career

2013

Saraiva's first international competition was the Houston National Invitational, where she finished 10th in the all-around competition. In December, she competed at the 2013 Gymnasiade in her own country, and won gold medals in floor exercise, balance beam and silver with her team and placed sixth on uneven bars.

2014

Saraiva started her 2014 season by competing at the WOGA Classic in Plano, Texas. She placed first on balance beam, second with her team and fifth in the all-around. In March, she competed at the Junior Pan American Championships, a qualifier meet for the Youth Olympic Games. There she had an outstanding meet, as she placed first in the all-around and on floor, second with the team and third on bars and beam. In August she was crowned Brazilian National Junior Champion, an added a bronze on beam to her medal haul. She replaced injured teammate Rebeca Andrade and competed at the 2014 Youth Summer Olympics. She had a great competition there, qualifying to the all-around and to the beam and floor finals. She medaled on all of them, winning silver in the AA and beam and gold on floor.

Senior career

2015

Saraiva made her senior international debut at the FIG World Challenge Cup in São Paulo. She won the floor exercise, and got the silver medal on balance beam behind China's Shang Chunsong.

At the Pan American Games, she took the bronze medal in the all around behind Canada's Ellie Black and USA's Madison Desch. In the team competition, Brazil took bronze behind the USA and Canada.

2016

Saraiva represented Brazil at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She helped the team qualify 5th into the team finals, and individually qualified in 19th and 3rd into the individual all around and balance beam finals respectively. In the team final, she placed 8th with her team. Although she had originally qualified to the all around final, she was replaced by Jade Barbosa so that she could focus on the beam final. In the balance beam final, Flavia was last to compete. After having several big wobbles, she placed 5th behind Marine Boyer of France (4th) and Simone Biles of USA (3rd).[4] She was the shortest athlete in the games.[5]

Competitive history

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2014 Youth Olympic Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2015 Pan American Games 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
São Paulo World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2016 Baku World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Test Event 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Anadia World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games 8 5
2017 City of Jesolo Trophy 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Koper World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Osijek World Cup 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2018 City of Jesolo Trophy 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 8 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
South American Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ Flávia Saraiva Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
  2. ^ a b Flávia Saraiva. cob.org.br
  3. ^ "Com lesão no dedinho, ginasta está fora das Olimpíadas da Juventude | globoesporte.com". globoesporte.globo.com. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
  4. ^ https://www.olympic.org/flavia-lopes-saraiva. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36984887. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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Awards
Preceded by
Inaugural
 Brazilian Athlete of the Year (Fan's Choice)
2014 		Succeeded by
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