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Full Daiane Dos Santos Biography
Daiane Garcia dos Santos (born on February 10, 1983 in Porto Alegre) is Brazil's most successful female gymnast ever. She has two floor skills named after her called Dos Santos: the piked and the laid-out double Arabian somersaults.
At the comparatively old age of 20, she won the world title on her specialty apparatus, the floor, in the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Anaheim, U.S.. Renowned for her difficult tumbling, Dos Santos is unusual in gymnastics because she did not take up the sport until the age of 11.
Dos Santos most famous routine's music is called "Brasileirinho" (by Waldir Azevedo) which she used for major achievements during 2004/2005 season.
She represented Brazil in the 2004 Summer Olympics and qualified to the floor final here, where she debuted the Dos Santos II, a double Arabian in layout position. No other woman has performed it, but sadly for Daiane she stepped out of the floor area whilst doing so, placing fifth. Dos Santos came back in December 2004 to become the World Cup floor champion, beating Cătălina Ponor and Cheng Fei into 2nd and 3rd place..
She attempted to defend her World Championship title in 2005 in Melbourne, but a fall in the finals took her out of the medals and left the way clear for Alicia Sacramone of the USA who won. Daiane finished 7th and said goodbye to her Brasileirinho routine.
In 2006, Dos Santos with a brand new routine (music "Isto Aqui O Que É?" by Ary Barroso) won her first gold medal under the new Artistic Gymnastics' score system Code of Points in a Moscow's leg of FIG's World Cup.
Daiane started on Uneven Bars placing #7. Next day, the Floor Exercise Final, she had her best chance. Despite strong competitors like Fei Cheng and Elena Zamolodchikova, Dos Santos was inspired by her home country's audience and added a new move (full-twisting double layout) on her routine to reach a higher score. It was an amazing moment for her that made powerful tumblings with difficult jumps (Dos Santos and Double Layout). Everything worked so well and she achieved her best score ever under new system (15.600). Although Fei Cheng had a superb routine, she fell on her usual double twisting double back somersault which caused her to finish fifth. With one of the most difficult floor exercise routines ever performed in women's artistic gymnastics, Daiane won her second consecutive Gold Medal at World Cup Final.
Brazil finished the competition with a successful and never-seen-before 6 medals (2 Golds - Diego Hypolito and Daiane dos Santos on Floor -, 2 Silvers - Danielle Hypolito on Beam and Lais Souza on Vault - and 2 Bronzes - Diego Hypolito on Vault and Lais Souza on Floor).
In 2007, Daiane's first competition of the year was World Cup Ghent in May. Daiane used it as a warm-up for the Pan American Games. She grabbed 2 finals (Floor and Uneven Bars), she went #8 in Uneven Bars and got a Bronze medal in Floor. Her low score (14.600) was caused by an easier floor exercise performance in which she replaced Double Arabian Tuck by Full Twisting Double Tuck and Double Layout by Double Tuck besides little mistakes.
June 2007, Daiane attended a Tri-Meet competition which was held in Natal/RN where Brazil was fighting for medals along with Great Britain and Pan American rival Canada. Brazilians swept all gold medals, including Daiane dos Santos once again in the Floor, but this time with a very consistent performance resulting in a competitive 15.225 score.
Daiane was supposed to take part in Floor and Vault events, but during her Team Finals' Floor routine at the very first day of competition, she showed up not been completely recovered from the lesion as she left the apparatus crying and scored a low 15.150, even so she placed 3rd and qualified for the Floor final. However, she was not able to attend it. She had been saved by the Technical Commission in order to prevent a worse lesion which could let her out of the 2007 Worlds in Stuttgart.
Daiane had been under treatment since the XV Pan American Games, and recently she has attended to the 2007 Worlds, competing with the Team in the Finals.
1999
- Silver Medal, vault, Pan American Games, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Bronze Medal, floor, Pan American Games, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Bronze Medal, team competition, Pan American Games, Winnipeg, Canada.
2004
- Gold medal, floor, World Cup. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- #4, vault, World Cup. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Gold medal, floor, World Cup. Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- Gold medal, floor, World Cup. Lyon, France.
- Silver medal, vault, World Cup. Lyon, France.
- Gold medal, floor, World Cup. Cottbus, Germany.
- #4, vault, World Cup. Cottbus, Germany.
- Bronze medal, floor, World Cup. Stuttgart, Germany.
- #5, floor, Olympic Games. Athens, Greece.
2005
- Gold medal, floor, World Cup. São Paulo, Brazil.
- Gold medal, floor, World Cup. Paris, France.
- #7, floor, World Championship. Melbourne, Australia.
2007
- 8th, uneven bars, World Cup. Ghent, Belgium.
- Bronze medal, floor, World Cup. Ghent, Belgium.
- Gold medal, team competition, Tri-Meet BRAxGBRxCAN. Natal, Brazil.
- Gold medal, floor, Tri-Meet BRAxGBRxCAN. Natal, Brazil.
- Silver medal, team competition, Pan American Games. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
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