Bruna Alexandre
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Full name | Bruna Costa Alexandre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Bruninha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Criciúma, Brazil | 29 March 1995||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Sao Caetano do Sul, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | C10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | São Caetano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bruna Costa Alexandre (born 29 March 1995) is a Brazilian para table tennis player who is two-time World bronze medalist and Paralympic bronze medalist in both singles and teams events along with Danielle Rauen.[1][2][3]
Life
[edit]Alexandre had her right arm amputated due to thrombosis from a poorly applied vaccine injection when she was six months old.[4][5]
In June 2021 she was one of the women identified as part of Brazil's Paralympic Table Tennis team for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 which were delayed for a year due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The other athletes identified were Cátia Oliveira (class 2), Dani Rauen (in class 9) and Joyce Oliveira (in class 4).[6]
She went on to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Brazilian athlete to contest both the Paralympic and Olympic Games.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Bruna Costa Alexandre - IPTTF Profile". International Para Table Tennis Federation. 21 December 2019. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019.
- ^ "Table Tennis - COSTA ALEXANDRE Bruna". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "Bruna Costa Alexandre - Table Tennis | Paralympic Athlete Profile". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "Bruna Alexandre". CBTM (in Brazilian Portuguese). 21 December 2019. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Primeira brasileira a disputar Olimpíadas e Paralimpíadas, Bruna Alexandre perdeu braço por injeção mal aplicada". GloboEsporte.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 June 2024.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Com time de sparrings de alto nível, Seleção paralímpica de tênis de mesa encerra semana de treinamentos em São Paulo - Surto Olímpico" [With a team of high-level sparring partners, the Paralympic table tennis team ends a week of training in São Paulo - Olympic Outbreak]. surtoolimpico.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 15 June 2021.