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Paulista Rebeca Andrade, just 25 years old, is the country's largest medalist at the Olympic Games. With its 1.55m tall, the gymnast has 6 Olympic medals in her career, 2 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze. In addition, she was also a two -time world champion and was world champion in the general individual competition.

With such a victorious career, Rebeca Andrade has become a real star in Brazil and only on Instagram has over 11 million followers. Next, we separated some of the best moments of Rebeca in competitions, which made it so acclaimed by the Brazilian public.

Gold on the ground in Paris

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Rebeca Andrade was able to conquer Brazil and the world with his presentation in the soil final of artistic gymnastics. At the time, she broke the American Simone Biles, who was a large favorite to get gold.

To reach Olympic gold, Rebeca made an extremely solid performance and used a song that mixed excerpts from Anitta's “Sanfoninha da Sanfoninha Movement” and Beyoncé's “End of Time”. With this, she had a total grade of 14,166, and narrowly surpassed Simone Biles, who had a grade of 14,133. The podium at the time was completed by another American, Jordan Chiles, who had 13,766 points.

Silver in the General Individual in Paris

Also in Paris, Rebeca made another series of stunning performances, this time for the general individual competition. This is considered the noblest proof of artistic gymnastics, as it evaluates the notes of gymnasts on the ground, jump on the table, balance and asymmetrical bars.

At the time, Rebeca's performances earned her a total of 57,932 points, but she was eventually crashed by Simone Biles, who got a good execution in more difficult presentations than those of the Brazilian and added 59,131 points. By winning the silver medal at the General Individual in Paris, Rebeca was able to repeat a feat that he reached in Tokyo 2020.

Gold in the jump in Tokyo

At the Tokyo Olympics, Rebeca Andrade got her first Olympic gold. To this end, the Brazilian got an average of 15,083 points in the jump and saw the opponents failed to try to exceed it.

"I am really happy. I worked a lot all this time. I don't even know what to say. It was not my best jumps. So much so that I left, "Oh, it wasn't very good." Only this is gymnastics, right? This happens. This is the sport. I took enough grade to take first place. Caraca, I'm very happy, ”said Rebeca right after winning the gold.

Two -time world champion

Every now and then Rebeca Andrade and Simone Biles face each other in the world's leading gymnastics competitions, and in 2023 the two once again starred in an exciting dispute at the Antwerp World Cup.

At the time, Biles hit the Brazilian in the general individual, with the gold, while Rebeca got the silver. The next day, the Paulista gave the change and, after being able to execute two excellent jumps, reached an average of 14,750 points, thus getting their two -time world championship in the jump.

“This gold means that our work continues to work, both technical and mental and physical. Everyone's work so I can control my mind and body. Everything went well, ”said Rebeca right after the achievement. Meanwhile, Simone Biles tried to perform the hardest jump of artistic gymnastics, Biles II, but the American ended up falling at the time of landing and got silver.