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Laiana Rodrigues Batista (born 8 May 1982) is a Brazilian sitting volleyball player. [1]
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Laiana Rodrigues Batista (born 8 May 1982) is a Brazilian sitting volleyball player. [1]
Batista is from Manaus, Amazonas. She was already a conventional volleyball player when, at the age of eighteen, she had hemorrhagic dengue fever and the manifestation of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Her legs were paralyzed and her right foot fell off. She discovered the Paralympic sport fifteen years later, at the age of 33. [1]
Batista was a member of the Brazilian women's sitting volleyball Team at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, where she won a silver medal. [1] She made her Paralympic debut at Rio 2016, where the team won the bronze medal after defeating Ukraine 3 sets to 0. [2] [3] At the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, they again won the silver medal after losing to the United States team by 3 sets to 0. [1] [4] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, the team lost to the United States in the semi-finals, but won the bronze medal after beating Canada by 3 sets to 1. [1] [5]
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