Flávia Saraiva

Flávia Saraiva
Saraiva at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Flávia Lopes Saraiva
Country represented	Brazil
Born	(1999-09-30) September 30, 1999 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.33 m (4 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight	31 kg (68 lb)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior international elite
Years on national team	2012–present
Club	Flamengo[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 2015 Toronto Team 2015 Toronto All-around Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing Floor exercise 2014 Nanjing All-around 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

References

External links

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• Flavia SARAIVA at the International Federation of Gymnastics