Arthur Nory Oyakawa Mariano (born 18 September 1993) is a Brazilian

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and a member of the Brazilian national team. He participated in the

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, placing fourth in the

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and 12th all-around. He won the bronze medal in

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at the

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. He is the 2019 World Champion on horizontal bar.

Early life

Mariano was born in 1993, in

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, to a Brazilian father and a

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mother. He practiced

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in a club as a child, following his father's footsteps. Mariano changed his mind after watching a gymnastics class. After his parents' divorce, Mariano moved with his mother to

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, where he entered in a gymnastics team in another club. When he was eleven, Mariano joined

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. Mariano won the Brazilian Child Gymnastics Championship when he was fourteen.

Controversy

In 2015, Mariano and fellow gymnasts Felipe Arakawa and Henrique Flores were suspended from the Brazilian national team for a month, after publishing a

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video in which they made racist jokes addressed at another teammate,

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gymnast Ângelo Assumpção. Mariano published another video apologizing for the incident. After his teammate had won the bronze medal at 2016 Olympics, Assumpção said: "I don't keep a grudge on him. We are close friends. I am very proud of Nory. I just hope he behaves like a medal winner outside the arena too."

Modeling career

Besides being a professional gymnast, Mariano is also an internationally signed model. In 2019, Mariano is the face of

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-based international clothing brand BENCH's men's wear campaign in

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and

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Personal life

On October 28, 2021, Mariano revealed in an

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post that he is in a relationship with broadcast media marketing analyst João Otávio Tasso.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mariano, Arthur 1993 births Living people Brazilian male artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Campinas Gymnasts at the 2015 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Brazilian people of Japanese descent Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Brazil Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in gymnastics Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics South American Games gold medalists for Brazil South American Games silver medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in gymnastics Competitors at the 2014 South American Games World champion gymnasts Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics LGBT gymnasts Brazilian LGBT sportspeople Gay sportsmen 20th-century Brazilian people 21st-century Brazilian people