 Brito in May 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira |
| Born | 12 July 1996 Macapá, Amapá, Brazil |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Para-athletics |
| Disability class | T32 |
| Events | |
Medal record | |
Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira [lower-alpha 1] (born 12 July 1996) is a Brazilian para-athlete.
Brito is from Macapá. She was born with cerebral palsy caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain at birth. [1] The athlete has a degree in physiotherapy. [1]
Brito started swimming in 2018 and, at the end of 2019, switched to athletics at the encouragement of her coach. Her first competition was the Macapá Paralympic Meeting in 2020. [2] In this competition, she set the best national mark in the shot put with 5.99 meters, which is also the third best world mark in this event in the F32 class. In the same tournament, she also set the record in the discus throw, with 11.84 meters. [1]
At the Marrakech Grand Prix, the athlete from Amapá won gold in the F32 class of the shot put with a mark of 6.83 meters [3] and also won silver in the club throw with a mark of 21.14 meters. [4]
In May 2023, during the second phase of the Loterias Caixa Athletics Circuit, Brito broke two American records in the shot put and club throw in the F32 class. In the throw, she threw 6.98 meters and broke a mark that had been set 14 years ago by Argentine Marilu Romina Fernandez, who threw 5.14 meters in June 2009 at a championship held in Paris, France. In the club, the athlete threw 22.01 meters and surpassed the mark of Mexican Shantal Cobos Soltero, who had thrown 21.05 meters in July 2022, in Mexico. These results led her to 1st place in the world ranking for the shot put and 2nd place in the club throw in her class. [5] In July 2023, at the World Para Athletics Championships, she won silver in the shot put [6] and came fifth in the club throw. [7]
Brito won gold at the World Para Athletics Championships in Japan on 14 May 2024, breaking the event record with a mark of 26.66 meters. [8]
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