Daiane dos Santos

Daiane dos Santos
— Gymnast —
dos Santos in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Daiane Garcia dos Santos
Nickname(s)	Dai
Country represented	Brazil
Born	(1983-02-10) February 10, 1983 (age 34) Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Height	145 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior
Club	Grêmio Náutico União
Head coach(es)	Oleg Ostapenko
Assistant coach(es)	Iryna Ilyashenko
Choreographer	Nadejda Ostapenko
Eponymous skills	Dos Santos Dos Santos II
Retired	2013
Medal record Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2003 Anaheim Floor Exercise World Cup Final 2004 Birmingham Floor Exercise 2006 São Paulo Floor Exercise Universiade 2005 Izmir Floor Exercise 2001 Beijing Floor Exercise Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg Vault 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team 1999 Winnipeg Floor Exercise 1999 Winnipeg Team 2003 Santo Domingo Team Pan American Championships 2001 Cancún Floor Exercise 2001 Cancún Team 2001 Cancún Vault South American Games 1998 Cuenca Team 1998 Cuenca Vault 1998 Cuenca Floor Exercise

Daiane Garcia dos Santos (born February 10, 1983, in Porto Alegre) is a retired artistic gymnast who represented Brazil at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the 2003 world champion on floor exercise.

Dos Santos began gymnastics when she was 12, later than most elite gymnasts, after a coach spotted her on a playground. She advanced quickly, becoming the South American champion within four years.

Daiane's breakthrough came at the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California. There, she won the gold medal on floor exercise, defeating Romania's Cătălina Ponor, who would become the Olympic champion on the event the following year. She opened her routine with a piked double Arabian: a half twist into a double front flip in a piked position. Because she was the first to perform the skill in World Championships or Olympic competition, it was named after her in the Code of Points.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Dos Santos qualified for the floor exercise event final and became the first female gymnast to perform a laid-out double Arabian. The skill, now known as the Dos Santos II, was the second to be named after her. However, in the final, she went out of bounds on a tumbling pass and placed fifth.

In December 2004, she became the World Cup floor champion, again beating Ponor.

At the 2005 World Championships in Melbourne, Dos Santos tried to defend her floor title, but underrotated her first tumbling pass and fell, scoring an 8.837 and placing 7th.

In 2006, she debuted a new floor routine to the music "Isto Aqui O Que É?" by Ary Barroso. With this program, she won her first gold medal under the new Code of Points at the Moscow World Cup.

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