Luana Tamara de Oliveira Vicente (born 30 January 1994) is a Brazilian

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player who won a silver medal at the

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Personal life

Vicente was born on 30 January 1994 in

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, Brazil. Her younger sister

Lohaynny Vicente Lohaynny Caroline de Oliveira Vicente (born 2 May 1996) is a Brazilian badminton player who has qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in her home city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Personal life Vicente was born on 2 May 1996 in Rio d ...

is also an international badminton player. When Luana was six, her father, a drug dealer, was killed in a shootout with police. Following her father's death her mother moved the family from the west of the city to

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, a

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in the north of Rio. She now lives with her sister in

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, in a house funded by the Brazilian Badminton Federation.

Career

Both Vicente and her sister began playing badminton through a programme set up by a coach to teach the sport to kids in the community. Vicente won a silver medal in the women's doubles at the

held in

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, Canada, playing alongside her sister . The pair defeated Daigenis Saturria and

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of the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals then Alex Bruce and

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of Canada in the semifinals. In the final they lost to the American pairing of

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and

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by a score of 14−21, 6−21, to finish as runners-up. Vicente competed at the

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, winning the gold medal in the team event, and also the silver medals in the women's and mixed doubles event.

Achievements

Pan American Games

''Women's doubles''

Pan Am Championships

''Women's doubles''

South American Games

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

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tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

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* * * 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2011 Pan American Games Badminton players at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in badminton South American Games gold medalists for Brazil South American Games silver medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in badminton Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games 21st-century Brazilian women 21st-century Brazilian people {{Brazil-badminton-bio-stub