1. Rebeca Andrade led the Brazilian team to its first ever team medals at the 2023 World Championships and the 2024 Olympics, as well as the gold medal at the 2021 Pan American Championships.
73 Facts About Rebeca Andrade
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Rebeca 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.
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Rebeca Andrade returned to competition and represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she placed eleventh in the all-around final.
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Rebeca Andrade tore her ACL for the second time in 2017, but made her World Championships debut in 2018.
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Rebeca Andrade was born on 8 May 1999 in Guarulhos.
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Rebeca Andrade is one of eight children of a single mother, Rosa.
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Rebeca Andrade's mother cleaned houses and walked to work in order to pay for Rebeca's gymnastics training.
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Rebeca Andrade began gymnastics when she was four years old after her aunt took her to the gym where she worked.
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Rebeca Andrade speaks both Portuguese and English, and she is Afro-Brazilian.
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Rebeca Andrade made her international debut when she was thirteen years old at the Junior Pan American Championships.
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Rebeca Andrade helped Brazil win the team silver medal behind Canada and ahead of Mexico.
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Rebeca Andrade competed at the Brazil Trophy, a domestic competition for both juniors and seniors, where she edged out Olympians including Jade Barbosa and Daniele Hypolito to claim the all-around title.
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Rebeca Andrade continued her success at the junior level in 2013.
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Rebeca Andrade began her 2013 season at the Nadia Comaneci Invitational in Oklahoma City, and she won the gold medal in the junior all-around.
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Individually, Rebeca Andrade won the bronze medal in the all-around behind teammates Lorrane Oliveira and Flavia Saraiva.
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Rebeca Andrade won the gold medal on vault and uneven bars and the silver medal on the balance beam behind Saraiva.
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The Brazilian team won the silver medal behind Russia, and Rebeca Andrade won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Alla Sosnitskaya and Flavia Saraiva.
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Rebeca Andrade won the gold in the all-around, on vault, and uneven bars, and she won the silver with the team, on balance beam, and on floor exercise.
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Rebeca Andrade later competed at the Junior Pan American Championships in Aracaju where she helped team Brazil win the silver medal behind Canada.
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Rebeca Andrade was initially scheduled to represent Brazil at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.
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Rebeca Andrade did not compete for the rest of the 2014 season.
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Rebeca Andrade recovered from her toe injury and made her senior international debut at the Ljubljana World Cup, where she won the bronze medal on the uneven bars behind Isabela Onyshko and Jonna Adlerteg.
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Rebeca Andrade then went to the Sao Paulo World Cup and won the silver medal on vault behind Deng Yalan; she placed seventh on the uneven bars.
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Rebeca Andrade then went to the Flanders International Team Challenge in Ghent where a mixed team of Brazilian and Italian gymnasts won the bronze medal.
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In 2016 Rebeca Andrade returned to competition after her ACL injury.
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Rebeca Andrade only competed on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam.
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Rebeca Andrade helped the Brazilian team win the silver medal behind the United States.
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Rebeca Andrade then competed at the Doha World Cup and won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind Jonna Adlerteg.
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Rebeca Andrade was selected to compete at the Olympic Test Event alongside Jade Barbosa, Daniele Hypolito, Lorrane Oliveira, Carolyne Pedro, and Flavia Saraiva in order to attempt to qualify Brazil a team quota for the Olympic Games.
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Rebeca Andrade competed on vault and uneven bars only, and she performed a double-twisting Yurchenko vault and a clean uneven bars routine.
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Rebeca Andrade then competed at the Sao Paulo World Cup, where she qualified for the uneven bars and balance beam finals.
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Rebeca Andrade then went to the Anadia World Cup where she won two silver medals on balance beam and floor exercise, both behind teammate Saraiva.
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At the 2016 Olympics Rebeca Andrade performed well in the qualification round and helped Brazil qualify for the team finals in fifth place.
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Rebeca Andrade won the gold medal with the Flamengo club team in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam.
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Rebeca Andrade won the silver medal on floor exercise behind Thais Fidelis.
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Rebeca Andrade won three World Cup medals in 2017 but endured two different injuries.
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Rebeca Andrade began her season at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where the Brazilian team won the silver medal behind the United States.
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Rebeca Andrade won the silver medal in the all-around behind American gymnast Riley McCusker.
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Rebeca Andrade then competed at the Koper Challenge Cup and won the gold medal on vault.
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Rebeca Andrade then competed at the Varna Challenge Cup and won the gold medal on both the vault and the uneven bars.
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Rebeca Andrade was initially named to the World Championships team along with first-year senior Thais Fidelis; however, she tore her ACL for a second time during the warmups for podium training and withdrew.
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Rebeca Andrade competed at her first World Championships in 2018 after returning from her second ACL tear but only was able to compete for a little less than a year before tearing her ACL for the third time.
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Rebeca Andrade returned to competition in September 2018 at the Pan American Championships.
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Rebeca Andrade only competed on two events, the vault and uneven bars.
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Rebeca Andrade helped the Brazilian team win the silver medal behind the United States.
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Rebeca Andrade was then named to the Brazilian team for the 2018 World Championships alongside Jade Barbosa, Thais Fidelis, Lorrane Oliveira, and Flavia Saraiva.
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Rebeca Andrade made her World Championships debut and competed on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam, and Brazil qualified for the team final in fifth place.
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Rebeca Andrade only competed once in 2019; at the DTB Team Challenge in Stuttgart, she helped the Brazilian team win team gold, and she won the all-around gold medal.
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At the Brazilian Championships, Rebeca Andrade tore her ACL for the third time in her career.
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At the World Championships, the Brazilian team without Rebeca Andrade finished fourteenth and did not qualify a team for the 2020 Olympic Games.
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Rebeca Andrade returned to competition at the Baku World Cup, where she finished third on uneven bars behind Fan Yilin and Anastasia Ilyankova and second on balance beam behind Urara Ashikawa during qualifications and therefore qualified to the event finals.
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Rebeca Andrade had a breakthrough year in 2021 and won her first Olympic and World medals.
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Rebeca Andrade returned to competition at the Pan American Championships which offered her a chance to qualify for the Olympic Games as an individual.
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Individually, Rebeca Andrade won the gold medal in the all-around with a total score of 56.700.
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Rebeca Andrade helped her club win the team gold medal at the Brazilian Championships.
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Rebeca Andrade chose not to compete on the floor exercise in order to preserve her health.
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Rebeca Andrade finished first on both the vault with an average score of 14.800 and on the uneven bars with a score of 15.100, and she finished eighth on the balance beam.
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Rebeca Andrade became the first Brazilian gymnast to ever qualify for a World uneven bars event final.
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Rebeca Andrade began her 2022 season in May at the Trophy Brazil, where she won the gold medal on the uneven bars and the silver on the balance beam.
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Rebeca Andrade then won the bronze medal in the floor exercise final alongside Jade Carey, finishing behind Jessica Gadirova and Jordan Chiles, who finished in first and second place respectively.
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Rebeca Andrade placed first on both uneven bars and balance beam.
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Rebeca Andrade next competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup where she placed second on uneven bars behind Melanie de Jesus dos Santos.
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In winning a medal on balance beam, Rebeca Andrade became the eleventh gymnast to win a World Championships medal on every single apparatus.
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Rebeca Andrade ended the year competing at the Pan American Games in Santiago.
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Rebeca Andrade won silver behind Melanie de Jesus dos Santos.
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Rebeca Andrade won the silver medal in the individual all-around final.
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Rebeca Andrade then competed during the third day of apparatus finals on beam and floor, placing fourth on beam and winning gold on floor.
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Rebeca Andrade achieved celebrity status in Brazil after her success at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
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Rebeca Andrade was awarded the Brazil Olympic Prize which recognized her as the best Brazilian female athlete of the year from 2021 to 2024.
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Rebeca Andrade was in a relationship with bodybuilder Luiz Cleiton from June 2022 to 2024.
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Rebeca Andrade has worked with psychologist Aline Wolff since she was 13 years old and wants to study psychology herself.
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Rebeca Andrade underwent three ACL reconstruction surgeries, all on her right knee.
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In December 2024, Rebeca Andrade was included on the BBC's 100 Women list.