| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Orlane Maria Lima dos Santos |
| Born | December 9, 1966 |
| Years active | 1983–2001 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | High jump, heptathlon |
Orlane Maria Lima dos Santos (born 9 December 1966) is a retired Brazilian athlete who specialised in the high jump. [1] She represented her country at three outdoor and two indoors World Championships. She also sometimes competed in the heptathlon.
Her personal bests in high jump are 1.92 metres outdoors (Bogota 1989) and 1.90 metres indoors (Wuppertal 1992). As of 2023, both are standing national records.
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Daiane Garcia dos Santos is a retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2003 world champion on the floor apparatus. On doing so, she became the first black gymnast to ever win an event at the World Championships as well as the first Brazilian and South American to win the competition. She represented Brazil at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. Widely regarded as the most powerful tumbler of her generation by critics and fellow competitors alike, the gymnast had two eponymous skills added on the FIG code of points after being the first woman to compete them at international championships. Dos Santos I, an F rated element, and Dos Santos II, an H rated element on the 2017–2020 COP.
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