Ana Sátila Vieira Vargas (born 13 March 1996) is a Brazilian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2011.

Career

She began sport training at the age of 4 and qualified for the

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at the age of 15. In 2015, Sátila won two medals at the

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held in

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, Canada. She won gold in the C1 event and silver in the K1 event. She would successfully defend her C1 titles at the 2019 Lima and 2023 Santiago editions, while also earning a gold medal at the kayak cross. Satila participated in 4 Olympic Games. At the

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, Sátila was the youngest female competitor in canoe slalom. She competed in the K1 event, finishing 16th in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals. She finished in 17th place in the K1 event at the

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. She qualified to represent Brazil at the

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in both women's events. She finished 13th in the K1 event after being eliminated in the semifinal, and at the canoe, where she was number 3 in the world ranking, Ana Sátila became the first Brazilian woman to reach an Olympic final in canoe slalom. In the final of the C1 event, she finished at tenth and last place after getting a time of 164.71 on her run. She first incurred a 2 second penalty at gate 7, and then missed gate 22, which meant another 50 seconds of penalties. Her time would have been enough for 4th place without the 50 second penalty. Sátila reached the finals for both individual canoe slalom events in the

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in Paris, getting close to medaling in both, with a fourth place in the K-1 and fifth in the C-1. In the kayak cross, Sátila reached the semifinal, being surpassed by

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after a collision in the last gate to end out of the qualifying zone, eventually finishing eighth overall following the B final. Sátila won three medals at the

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with a gold (Kayak cross:

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), a silver (Kayak cross:

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) and a bronze (C1: 2017). At the

in London she finished 9th in the C1 event and 13th in the K1 event, after being eliminated in the semifinal.

World Cup individual podiums

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Personal life

Ana Sátila is the elder sister of Omira Estácia Neta, another Brazilian canoeist. She is engaged to rower

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References

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