Nicole Pircio

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Nicole Pircio
Full nameNicole Pircio Nunes Duarte
Country representedFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Born (2002-07-24) 24 July 2002 (age 21)
Piracicaba, Brazil
Residence Aracaju, Brazil
Height166 cm (5 ft 5 in) [1]
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Years on national team2018 - present
Head coach(es) Camila Ferezin
Medal record
Rhythmic gymnastics
Representing Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima 3 hoops + 2 clubs
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Santiago Group all-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 Santiago5 hoops
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 Santiago3 ribbons + 2 balls
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 LimaGroup all-around
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 Lima5 balls
Pan American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Lima 5 hoops
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Rio de Janeiro Group all-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2021 Rio de Janeiro5 balls
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2021 Rio de Janeiro3 hoops + 4 clubs
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Rio de Janeiro Group all-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Rio de Janeiro5 hoops
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Guadalajara Group All-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Guadalajara5 hoops
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Guadalajara3 ribbons + 2 balls
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Rio de Janeiro3 ribbons + 2 balls
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Lima Group all-around
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Lima 3 balls + 2 ropes
South American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Cochabamba Group all-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Cochabamba 5 hoops
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Cochabamba 3 balls + 2 ropes
South American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Bogotá Group all-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Bogotá 5 balls
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Bogotá 3 hoops + 4 clubs
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Paipa All-around team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Paipa Group all-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Paipa 5 hoops
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Paipa 3 ribbons + 2 balls
Event1st2nd3rd
FIG World Cup 002
FIG World Challenge Cup 211
Total213

Nicole Pircio Nunes Duarte (born 24 July 2002) [2] is a Brazilian rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2021 and 2022 Pan American group all-around champion and the 2019 Pan American Games 3 hoops + 4 clubs champion. She won three gold medals at the 2018 South American Games and at the 2019 South American Championships, and she won four gold medals at the 2022 South American Championships. She represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics and finished twelfth in qualifications for the group all-around.

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Career

Pircio began rhythmic gymnastics when she was ten years old and was invited to join the Brazilian national team in 2018. [3] At the 2018 South American Games Pircio and her teammates swept the gold medals in the group all-around and both apparatus finals. She competed at the 2018 Pan American Championships where the Brazilian group won the gold medal in 5 balls and the bronze medals in the group all-around and 3 balls + 2 ropes. [4] She then competed at the 2018 World Championships where the Brazilian group finished eighteenth in the all-around. [5]

Pircio and the Brazilian group swept the gold medals at the 2019 South American Championships. She then competed at the 2019 Pan American Games where she won a gold medal in the 3 hoops + 2 clubs event and bronze medals in the group all-around and 5 balls event. [6] [7] [8] Then at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, the Brazilian group placed thirteenth in the all-around. [9]

Pircio competed at the 2021 Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro. The group won the gold medal in the group all-around and secured the continental quota place for the 2020 Olympic Games. The group additionally won the gold medals in both the 5 balls and the 3 hoops + 4 clubs event finals. [10] She was selected to compete for Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the group all-around alongside Beatriz Linhares, Déborah Medrado, Maria Eduarda Arakaki, and Geovanna Santos. [11] They finished twelfth in the qualification round for the group all-around. [12] After the Olympic Games, she competed at the 2021 World Championships where the Brazilian group placed ninth in the all-around. [13] They also finished seventh in the 5 balls final. [14]

Pircio competed at the 2022 South American Championships where the Brazilian group won the gold medals in the team, all-around, 5 hoops, and 3 ribbons + 2 balls. She then competed with Maria Eduarda Arakaki, Déborah Medrado, Gabrielle da Silva, Giovanna Oliveira, and Bárbara Galvão at the 2022 Pan American Championships and successfully defended their group all-around title. They also won gold in the 5 hoops event finals, and they won the silver behind Mexico in the 3 ribbons + 2 balls final. [15] The same group then competed at the 2022 World Championships in Sofia where they finished fifth in the group all-around. [16] They also qualified for the 5 hoops final where they finished fourth. [17]

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