Daiane dos Santos

Daiane dos Santos
Personal information
Full name	Daiane Garcia dos Santos
Nickname(s)	Dai
Country represented	Brazil
Born	February 10, 1983 (1983-02-10) (age 28) Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Height	145 centimetres (4 ft 9 in)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior
Club	Grêmio Náutico União
Head coach(es)	Oleg Ostapenko
Assistant coach(es)	Iryna Ilyashenko
Choreographer	Nadejda Ostapenko
Eponymous skills	Dos Santos Dos Santos II
Medal record Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Gold 2003 Anaheim Floor Pan American Games Silver 1999 Winnipeg Vault Silver 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team Competition Bronze 1999 Winnipeg Floor Bronze 1999 Winnipeg Team competition Bronze 2003 Santo Domingo Team competition

Daiane Garcia dos Santos (born February 10, 1983) is one of Brazil's most successful female gymnasts.^{[citation needed]} At the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, at age 20, she won the world title on her specialty apparatus, the floor exercise.

Personal life

Daiane dos Santos was born in Porto Alegre. She lives in Curitiba, where she studies physical education at Dom Bosco University.

Career

Dos Santos began gymnastics at age 11.

She has two skills named after her on floor exercise called the Dos Santos: Arabian double front somersaults in both piked and laid-out positions.^[1]

Her most famous routine's music is "Brasileirinho" by Waldir Azevedo, which she used for major achievements during 2004/2005 season.

2004

She represented Brazil in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She qualified for the floor exercises event final. During the final, she debuted the Dos Santos II skill, a double Arabian in layout position. She overroated a tumbling pass and went out of bounds. She placed fifth.

In December 2004, she became the World Cup floor champion, beating Olympic champion Cătălina Ponor.

2005

She made an attempt to defend her World Championship title in Melbourne. During the floor final, she fell backwards and placed 7th overall.

2006

In 2006, Dos Santos competed with a brand new routine to the music "Isto Aqui O Que É?" by Ary Barroso. With this program, she won her first gold medal under the new Artistic Gymnastics' score system Code of Points in Moscow's leg of FIG's World Cup.

Dos Santos decided to attend the 2006 World Championships, but she decided not to compete the Dos Santos II for a while.^{[citation needed]}. She placed 4th in the floor event.

Dos Santos qualified for Brazil's World Cup Final 2005/2006 on Floor Exercise. She was still #1 in the world in floor exercise.^{[citation needed]}

Dos Santos started on uneven bars, where she placed 7th. The next day, at the floor exercise final, she was in medal contention. Dos Santos debuted a new move, a full-twisting double layout, to her routine. During that program, she also performed the Dos Santos and a double layout. She set a new personal best under the new system (15.600).^{[citation needed]} Dos Santos won her second consecutive Gold Medal at World Cup Final.

Brazil finished the competition with six medals.^{[citation needed]}

2007

Dos Santos's first competition of 2007 was the World Cup event in Ghent in May. Dos Santos used it as a warm-up for the Pan American Games. She competed in the Floor and Uneven Bars event finals, placing 8th in the uneven bars and winning the bronze on the floor. During her floor routine, she replaced Double Arabian Tuck with a Full Twisting Double Tuck and the Double Layout with a Double Tuck.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2007, Dos Santos attended a Tri-Meet competition in Natal/RN, in which Brazil competed against Great Britain and Canada. Brazil won all the gold medals^{[citation needed]}. dos Santos won on the floor with a score of 15.225.

On July 6, dos Santos suffered a level 1 torsion on her right ankle^{[citation needed]} and did not attend a Pan American Arena inauguration. Although the Brazilian Gymnastics Confederation (CBG) guaranteed her participation in Pan American Games, her doctors decided to wait 48 hours before the announcement, to be sure. She was later confirmed to take her spot in Brazil's Pan American Team.^{[citation needed]}

Dos Santos was supposed to take part in floor and vault events, but during her team finals' floor routine on the first day of competition, she ran into difficulties. Her injury had not completely recovered, and she left the apparatus crying.^{[citation needed]} She scored a low 15.150, and placed 3rd, which qualified her for the floor event final. However, she was not able to compete in the final. She was prevented to compete^{[clarification needed]} by the Technical Commission in order to avoid a worse lesion which could let her out of the 2007 Worlds in Stuttgart.^{[citation needed]}

Dos Santos attended the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships competing with the team in the finals. Still not recovered, Daiane could not perform up to her level, but still helped her team to qualify 2nd time for the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing and also to achieve a historic 5th place.

2008

Daiane underwent a six-month intensive treatment after the 2007 World Championship and the first signs of returning to her best could be seen during artistic gymanstics World Cups in Cottbus (Germany) and Tianjin (China) where she placed 4th in both of them. Following her good performances and trying to reach a best in Beijing, she decided along with coach Oleg Ostapenko to come back to her 2004–2005 floor music, crowd's favorite "Brasileirinho". In June, she went with team Brazil to friendly meets in Europe where she showed once again explosive tumblings including Dos Santos II which she has not been performing since Athens 2004.

She was selected for the Olympic Brazilian Team, but this time sharing the spotlight with newcomer Jade Barbosa (All-Around Bronze Medalist in 2007 Worlds). Initially, she was focused in help Brazil to reach the first Olympic Team Final ever; however she would try her best to make the floor exercise final once again. In the qualification round, Brazil started in their best apparatus, the floor. Daiane was last to perform. She opened her routine with a Tsukahara Layout (Full Twisting Double Layout) followed by the Dos Santos II, Double Layout and finishing with a Double Pike. The Chinese audience were amazed and the judges gave her the score 15.275 which was enough for her to reach the finals in 5th place. During the finals she went out of bounds twice, getting in 6th place with a 14.975

2009

Daiane tested positive for the banned drug Furosemide at an out-of-competition doping control in July 2009. She received a five month ban.

Results

1998

• Gold Medal, floor, Canberra Cup, Australia.

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.

2001

• Gold Medal, floor, Gymnastics Pan American. Cancún, Mexico.
• #5, floor, World Championship. Ghent, Belgium.

2003

• Bronze medal, floor, World Cup. Cottbus, Germany.
• #5, uneven bars, World Cup. Cottbus, Germany.
• Bronze medal, team competition, Pan American Games. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• #4, floor, World Cup. Paris, France.
• Gold medal, floor, World Cup. Stuttgart, Germany.
• #5, vault, World Cup. Stuttgart, Germany.
• #6, uneven bars, World Cup. Stuttgart, Germany.
• Gold medal, floor, World Championship. Anaheim, United States.

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.

2006

• 4th [tie], floor, World Championship. Aarhus, Denmark.
• #7, uneven bars, World Cup Final. São Paulo, Brazil.
• Gold medal, floor, World Cup Final. São Paulo, Brazil.

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.

2008

• 4th, floor, World Cup. Cottbus, Germany.
• 4th, floor, World Cup. Tianjin, China.
• 6th, floor, Olympic Games 2008. Beijing, China.

Floor Routines

2002/2003
Music: "Rumba para los rumberos" - S.V.: 10.00

2003 World Championship
1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Pike
2nd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout
Double Turn-Tour Jete with Full Turn
3rd Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Tuck
Cat Leap Double-Popa-11/2 Leap
4th Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

2004/2005
Music: "Brasileirinho" - S.V.: 10.00

2004 Olympic Summer Games (Athens)
1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Layout
2nd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Pike
Double Turn-Tour Jete with Full Turn
3rd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout
Double Leap-11/2Cat Leap-Cat Leap
4th Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

2006/2007
Music: "Isto aqui o que é?" - Difficulty: 6.4

2006 World Cup Final
1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Tsukahara Layout
2nd Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Pike
Double Turn with Horizontal Leg-Jump with Full Turn and Horizontal Leg-Tour Jete with Full Turn
3rd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout
Switch Leap-Switch Side Leap-Tour Jete
4th Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

2008
Music: "Brasileirinho" - Difficulty: 6.4

2008 Olympic Summer Games (Beijing)
1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Full Twisting Double Layout
2nd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Layout
Double Turn, Switch leap into Tour Jete Half Turn, Tour Jete with Full Turn
3rd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout
Double Leap, Leap Jump
4th Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

References

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/reporterbbc/story/2007/05/070409_dna_daiane_cg.shtml#. Daiane dos Santos é 'protótipo da brasileira'."

External links

• Página Oficial
• Daiane dos Santos at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• Photos at Gymbox.net

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Name	Santos, Daiane Dos
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Date of birth	February 10, 1983
Place of birth	Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
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