Daiane Garcia dos Santos (born February 10, 1983) is a retired

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. She is the 2003 world champion on the floor apparatus. On doing so, she became the first black gymnast to ever win an event at the World Championships as well as the first

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ian and

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to win the competition. She represented

at the

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, and

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. Widely regarded as the most powerful tumbler of her generation by critics and fellow competitors alike, the gymnast had two eponymous skills added on the FIG code of points after being the first woman to compete them at international championships. Dos Santos I, an F rated element, and Dos Santos II, an H rated element on the 2017–2020 COP.

Gymnastics career

Dos Santos was born in

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, and began gymnastics when she was 12, later than most elite gymnasts, after a coach spotted her on a playground. She advanced quickly, becoming the South American champion within four years.

2003–04

Daiane's breakthrough came at the

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, US. There, she won the gold medal on floor exercise, defeating Romania's

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, who would become the Olympic champion on the event the following year. She opened her routine with a piked double Arabian: a half twist into a double front flip in a piked position. Because she was the first to perform the skill in World Championships or Olympic competition, it was named after her in the Code of Points. At the

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, Dos Santos qualified for the floor exercise event final and became the first female gymnast to perform a laid-out double Arabian. The skill, now known as the Dos Santos II, was the second to be named after her. However, in the final, she went out of bounds on a tumbling pass and placed fifth. In December 2004, she became the World Cup floor champion, again beating Ponor.

2005–06

At the 2005 World Championships in

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, Dos Santos tried to defend her floor title, but underrotated her first tumbling pass and fell, scoring an 8.837 and placing 7th. In 2006, she debuted a new floor routine to the music "Isto aqui o que é?" by

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. With this program, she won her first gold medal under the new Code of Points at the Moscow World Cup. At the 2006 World Championships, she placed 4th in the floor final. She also qualified for the World Cup Final, where she defended her floor exercise title and placed 7th on

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2007

Dos Santos's first competition of 2007 was the Ghent World Cup in May. She competed in the floor and uneven bars event finals, placing 8th on bars and winning the bronze on floor. In June, she won a gold medal on floor at a tri-meet competition in

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, in which Brazil competed against

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and

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. In July 2007, Dos Santos injured her ankle. She competed at the Pan American Games despite the injury, but performed poorly on floor exercise in the team finals and left the apparatus crying. She qualified for the floor event final, but chose not to compete in order to avoid a worse injury that could keep her out of the 2007 World Championships in

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. At the World Championships, Dos Santos was still not fully recovered, but she helped the Brazilian team place fifth and qualify for the

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2008

Dos Santos underwent six months of intensive treatment after the 2007 World Championship and returned to competition at the 2008 World Cups in

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and

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, placing 4th on floor at both. In preparation for the Olympics, she decided along with coach Oleg Ostapenko to bring back her 2004–05 floor music, the crowd-pleasing "Brasileirinho". In June, she competed with the Brazilian team at friendly meets in Europe, where she performed the Dos Santos II for the first time since the 2004 Olympics. In August, Dos Santos competed at her second Olympic Games, this time sharing the spotlight with newcomer

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, an all-around bronze medalist at the 2007 World Championships. She helped Brazil reach its first-ever Olympic team final, and made the individual floor exercise final with a score of 15.275. Brazil finished 7th in the team final, and Dos Santos placed 6th on floor after going out of bounds twice.

2009–12

Dos Santos tested positive for the banned drug

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in July 2009 and received a five-month ban. Her next major success was at the 2011 Ghent World Cup, where she won the bronze medal on floo

Shortly after that, she competed at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2011 World Championships in

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. The Brazilian team placed 14th, and Dos Santos finished 26th on floor with a score of 13.758. Some days later, she competed in the Pan American Games. She placed 5th with the Brazilian team, but did not make the floor final because she fell during qualifications. In January 2012, Dos Santos helped Brazil place 4th at the Olympic Test Event in

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and won the bronze medal in the floor final, with a score of 14.066. At the

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, she did not qualify for any finals.

Eponymous skills

Dos Santos has two eponymous skills listed in the Code of Points.

Personal life

Dos Santos lives in

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, where she studies

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at Dom Bosco University. In 2022, she performed cosplayed as a

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in the reality singing competition ''

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''.

Results

1998 * Canberra Cup (

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) — 1st, floor exercise 1999 * Pan American Games (

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) — 2nd, vault; 3rd, floor; 3rd, team 2001 * Pan American Games (

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) — 1st, floor * World Cup (

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) — 5th, floor 2003 *World Cup (

) — 3rd, floor; 5th, uneven bars *Pan American Games (

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) — 3rd, team * World Cup (

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) — 4th, floor * World Cup (

) — 1st, floor; 5th, vault; 6th, uneven bars * World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (

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) — 1st, floor 2004 *World Cup (

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) — 1st, floor; 4th, vault *World Cup (

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) — 1st, floor *World Cup (

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) — 1st, floor; 2nd, vault *World Cup (Cottbus) — 1st, floor; 4th, vault *World Cup (Stuttgart) — 3rd, floor *2004 Summer Olympics (

) — 5th, floor 2005 *World Cup (

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) — 1st, floor *World Cup (Paris) — 1st, floor *World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (

) — 7th, floor 2006 *World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (

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) — 4th (tie), floor *World Cup Final (São Paulo) — 1st, floor; 7th, uneven bars 2007 *World Cup (Ghent) — 3rd, floor; 8th, uneven bars *BRA–GBR–CAN tri-meet (

) — 1st, floor; 1st, team *Pan American Games (Rio de Janeiro) — 2nd, team 2008 *World Cup (Cottbus) — 4th, floor *World Cup (

) — 4th, floor *2008 Olympic Games (

) — 6th, floor; 7th, team 2011 *World Cup (Ghent) — 3rd, floor *World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (

) — 14th, team *Pan American Games (

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) — 5th, team 2012 *Olympic Test Event (

) — 3rd, floor; 4th, team

Floor routines

2003 World Championships Music: "Rumba para los Rumberos"; Start Value: 10.0 Round-off + back handspring + piked double Arabian (Dos Santos I); round-off + back handspring + double layout; double turn; tour jeté 1/1; front pike + round-off + back handspring + tucked double Arabian; cat leap 2/1 + Popa 3/2; round-off + back handspring + double pike. 2004 Olympic Games Music: "Brasileirinho"; S.V.: 10.00 Round-off + back handspring + laid-out double Arabian (Dos Santos II); round-off + back handspring + piked double Arabian (Dos Santos I); double turn; tour jeté 1/1; round-off + back handspring + double layout; cat leap 3/2 + cat leap 1/1; front pike + round-off + back handspring + double pike. 2006 World Cup Final Music: "Isto aqui o que é?"; Difficulty: 6.4 Round-off + back handspring + full-twisting double layout; front pike + round-off + back handspring + piked double Arabian (Dos Santos I); double turn with leg at horizontal; jump 1/1 with leg at horizontal + tour jeté 1/1; switch leap + switch side leap + tour jeté; front pike + round-off + back handspring + double pike. 2008 Olympic Games Music: "Brasileirinho"; Difficulty: 6.4 Round-off + back handspring + full-twisting double layout; round-off + back handspring + laid-out double Arabian (Dos Santos II); double turn; switch leap + tour jeté 1/2 + tour jeté 1/1; round-off, back handspring, double layout; double leap + leap jump; front pike + round-off + back handspring + double pike. 2011 World Championships Music: "Mix of Latin Rhythms"; Difficulty: 5.9 Round-off + back handspring + full-twisting double layout; round-off + back handspring + piked double Arabian (Dos Santos I); full turn with leg at horizontal; tour jeté 1/2; front pike + round-off + back handspring + double pike; leap jump + tour jeté 1/1; switch leap; round-off + back handspring + double layout.

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