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Geovanna Santos

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Geovanna Santos
Full nameGeovanna Santos da Silva
Nickname(s)Jojo
Born (2002-02-15) 15 February 2002 (age 23)
Pinheiros, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)[1]
Gymnastics career
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
Country
represented		 Brazil
ClubClube Italo Brasileiro
Head coach(es)Camila Ferezin
Medal record
Rhythmic gymnastics
Representing  Brazil
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Pan American Games 0 1 0
Pan American Championships 8 6 1
South American Games 1 3 1
South American Championships 4 1 1
Total 13 11 3
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago Ball
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Rio de Janeiro Group all-around
Gold medal – first place 2021 Rio de Janeiro 5 balls
Gold medal – first place 2021 Rio de Janeiro 3 hoops + 4 clubs
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rio de Janeiro Clubs
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rio de Janeiro Ribbon
Gold medal – first place 2023 Guadalajara Team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Guadalajara Hoop
Gold medal – first place 2024 Guatemala City Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Rio de Janeiro Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Rio de Janeiro All-around
Silver medal – second place 2023 Guadalajara All-around
Silver medal – second place 2023 Guadalajara Ball
Silver medal – second place 2023 Guadalajara Ribbon
Silver medal – second place 2024 Guatemala City Hoop
Silver medal – second place 2025 Asunción Team
Silver medal – second place 2025 Asunción Hoop
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Guadalajara Clubs
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Asunción All-Around
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción Hoop
Silver medal – second place 2022 Asunción All-around
Silver medal – second place 2022 Asunción Ball
Silver medal – second place 2022 Asunción Ribbon
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Asunción Clubs
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Paipa Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Paipa All-around team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Paipa Hoop
Gold medal – first place 2022 Paipa Ribbon
Silver medal – second place 2022 Paipa All-around
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Paipa Clubs

Geovanna Santos da Silva (born 15 February 2002)[2] is a Brazilian rhythmic gymnast who has competed both as an individual and a group member. She represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the group all-around.

Career

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Santos began rhythmic gymnastics when she was six years old in Pinheiros.[2] Her father left his job so the family could move to another city for her to train, and her brother stopped his own sport, badminton, to become a rhythmic gymnastics judge to help evaluate her routines.[3] She began competing with Brazil's senior rhythmic group in 2021.[1]

Santos competed at the 2021 Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro. The group won the gold medal in the group all-around and secured the continental quota place for the 2020 Olympic Games. The group additionally won the gold medals in both the 5 balls and the 3 hoops + 4 clubs event finals.[4]

She was selected to compete for Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the group all-around alongside Maria Eduarda Arakaki, Déborah Medrado, Nicole Pírcio, and Beatriz Linhares.[5] Santos ruptured a ligament in her knee ahead of the Olympics, but she recovered in time to compete.[6] They finished twelfth in the qualification round for the group all-around.[7]

After the Olympics, Santos resumed competing as an individual, saying that she had achieved her goal as a group member. She also said that she wanted to be the first gymnast to compete at the Olympics as both a group member and individual gymnast.[6]

Santos participated in World Cups, such as Pesaro 2022. She competed at the 2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, winning silver in the team competition as well as the all-around.[8] Her ribbon routine, with which she won gold, went viral. The routine was performed to the song Rajadão by Pabllo Vittar, who commented positively on a video of her routine. Santos expressed joy about the comment and also said, "I want to continue taking the LGBTQIA+ community to the top, rising higher and higher, and giving voice to the cause. I am very happy for the affection they have given me."[6]

In September 2024, she became the national silver medalist behind Maria Eduarda Alexandre and ahead of Ana Luísa Neiva.[9]

In 2025, she began her season at the World Cup in Sofia, where she placed 10th overall.[10] At the Pan American Championships, she won bronze in the all-around, as well as silver in the team competition. In the apparatus finals, she won another silver with hoop and a second bronze with clubs.[11]

Routine music

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Year Apparatus Music title
2023 Hoop Obsidian by Audiomachine
Ball All By Myself by Celine Dion
Clubs Stanga by Sagi Abitbul & Guy Haliva
Ribbon Rajadão (Ao Vivo) by Pabllo Vittar
2022 Hoop Obsidian by Audiomachine
Ball Il Mondo by Il Volo
Clubs Stanga by Sagi Abitbul & Guy Haliva
Ribbon Rajadão by Pabllo Vittar

References

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  1. ^ a b "Geovanna Santos da Silva". Olimpia Todo Dia (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Santos Geovanna". Tokyo 2020. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Geovanna Santos da Silva". Olimpíada Todo Dia (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-05-31.
  4. ^ "Brazil and Castillo Galindo claim Olympic tickets in Rio". International Gymnastics Federation. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  5. ^ "CBG divulga convocação das ginastas do conjunto" [CBG announces the rhythmic gymnastics group]. Confederação Brasileira de Ginástica (in Portuguese). 8 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b c Pinheiro, Malu (2022-07-14). "Geovanna Santos levou ouro ao som de Pabllo Vittar e viralizou – aqui, ela conta sua história com a ginástica e a música" [Geovanna Santos won gold to the sound of Pabllo Vittar and went viral – here, she tells her story with gymnastics and music]. Glamour (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-05-31.
  7. ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics — Group All-Around — Qualification — Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Geovanna Santos é prata no AA do Pan-Americano de ginástica rítmica". Olimpíada Todo Dia (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-07-08. Retrieved 2022-07-09.
  9. ^ Zerati, Luciana (2024-09-28). "Maria Alexandre é campeã Brasileira do Individual Geral" [Maria Alexandre is the individual all-around Brazilian champion]. Olimpíada Todo Dia (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-05-31.
  10. ^ Gentile, Gabriel (2025-04-05). "Maria Alexandre entrega boa série de fita e vai à final em Sófia" [Maria Alexandre delivers good ribbon routine and goes to the final in Sofia]. Olimpíada Todo Dia (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-05-31.
  11. ^ "Capixaba Geovanna Santos conquista quatro medalhas no Pan-Americano" [Capixaba Geovanna Santos wins four medals at the Pan-American Games]. SESPORT (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2025-06-02. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
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