Rebeca Andrade

CTL-E-6057 · Person · other · 1999–present

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Combined Graph record U-07280 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6057.

Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade, born 8 May 1999 in Guarulhos, São Paulo, is a Brazilian artistic gymnast and the most decorated Brazilian Olympian in any discipline. Raised by her mother Rosa, a house cleaner, in a family of eight children, she walked nearly two hours to training on days the family could not afford the bus. Three anterior cruciate ligament surgeries between 2015 and 2019 nearly ended her career. At the Tokyo Olympics she won gold on vault and silver in the all-around, becoming the first Brazilian female gymnast to win an Olympic medal. She was world all-around champion in 2022 and world vault champion in 2021 and 2023, and she won the 2025 Laureus Comeback of the Year award. At Paris 2024 she won floor gold ahead of Simone Biles, all-around and vault silver, and team bronze — Brazil's first Olympic team medal — closing the Games on the first all-Black podium in Olympic gymnastics history. Her six Olympic medals are a Brazilian record. After a gap year in 2025 she returned in 2026, winning Pan American vault gold and leading Brazil at the World Championships in Rotterdam, having retired from floor exercise for good.

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• Also known as: Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade, Rebe

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Sources

• NBC Sports, 'Rebeca Andrade, after doubts during her break, leads Brazil again at gymnastics worlds' (15 Oct 2026) — Andrade returned at the 2026 Pan American Championships and leads Brazil at the 2026 World Championships; six Olympic medals, the most of any Brazilian Olympian; raised by her mother, a house cleaner, one of eight children — https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/rebeca-andrade-gymnastics-world-championships-2026 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Rebeca Andrade' — born 8 May 1999 in Guarulhos; six Olympic and nine World medals; most decorated Brazilian and Latin American gymnast of all time; 2022 World all-around champion; Olympic vault gold (Tokyo) and floor gold (Paris 2024); three ACL reconstruction surgeries; carried the Olympic flag at the Milano Cortina 2026 opening ceremony on 6 Feb 2026 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeca_Andrade (build store)
• ESPN, 'Who is Rebeca Andrade, the gymnastics Olympian from Brazil?' (5 Aug 2024) — first Brazilian female gymnast to medal at an Olympic Games; title list: Tokyo vault gold, Paris floor gold, 2021 and 2023 World vault titles, 2022 World all-around title — https://www.espn.ph/olympics/story/_/id/40700100/who-rebeca-andrade-gymnastics-olympian-brazil (build store)
• RioOnWatch, 'Black Brazilian Women Take Gold at the 2024 Olympic Games, Part 1' (2024) — profiles Andrade among Black Brazilian gold medalists; the Paris floor podium of Andrade, Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles was the first all-Black podium in Olympic gymnastics — https://rioonwatch.org/?p=79315 (build store)
• EssentiallySports, ''For Me It's Definitive': Olympic Champion Rebeca Andrade Confirms Major Gymnastics Decision' (2026), quoting Olympics.com — Andrade confirms she will not compete floor exercise again, even after her Pan American Championships comeback, in which she won vault gold — https://www.essentiallysports.com/olympics-news-for-me-its-definitive-olympic-champion-rebeca-andrade-confirms-major-gymnastics-decision/ (build store)

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