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| Full name | Silvana Mayara Cardoso Fernandes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Brazilian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 April 1999 (age 25) São Bento, Paraíba, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | T44 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Silvana Mayara Cardoso Fernandes (born 23 April 1999) is a Brazilian para taekwondo practitioner.
Fernandes began training in javelin throwing but soon became interested in parataekwondo. [1] [2] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won a bronze medal in the –58 kg category. [3] [4]
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