Wanna Brito

Wanna Brito

Brito in May 2024
Personal information
Full name	Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira
Born	(1996-07-12) 12 July 1996 (age 28) Macapá, Amapá, Brazil
Sport
Sport	Para-athletics
Disability class	T32
Events	Club throw shot put
Medal record Women's para athletics Representing  Brazil Paralympic Games 2024 Paris Shot put F32 World Para Athletics Championships 2024 Kobe Club throw F32 2024 Kobe Shot put F32 2023 Paris Shot put F32 Parapan American Games 2023 Santiago Shot put F32/33/34

Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira^[a] (born 12 July 1996) is a Brazilian para-athlete.

Biography

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]

Career

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]

Notes

1. This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Brito and the second or paternal family name is Oliveira.

References

1. "Amapaense quebra dois recordes brasileiros a 13km de casa no Meeting Loterias Caixa em Macapá". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. 20 August 2022. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
2. "Wanna Brito - Perfil". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
3. "Seleção Brasileira de atletismo paralímpico conquista mais três ouros no Grand Prix de Marrakech". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. 10 March 2023. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
4. "Beth Gomes quebra recorde mundial de quase 30 anos e Brasil encerra Grand Prix de Marrakech com 15 medalhas". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. 11 March 2023. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
5. "Em busca de vaga no Mundial de atletismo, atletas batem 4 recordes continentais no Circuito Loterias Caixa". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. 6 May 2023. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
6. "Brasil empata com a China no total de medalhas em sexta-feira com sete pódios no Mundial de atletismo". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. 14 July 2023. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
7. "Confira todos os resultados dos brasileiros no Mundial de atletismo em Paris 2023". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. 17 July 2023. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
8. Almeida, Patryck (14 May 2024). "É ouro! Wanna Brito conquista medalha no Mundial de Atletismo no Japão". ge (in Brazilian Portuguese). Macapá. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2024.

External links

• Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics (alternate link)
• Wanna Brito at the Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro (in Portuguese)