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Diego Hypólito
Hypólito in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Diego Matias Hypólito
Born	(1986-06-19) June 19, 1986 (age 38) Santo André, Brazil
Hometown	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Brazil
Level	Senior international
Club	CR Flamengo
Head coach(es)	Renato Araújo
Retired	2019
Medal record Representing  Brazil Men's artistic gymnastics Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 2 1 2 World Cup Final 3 0 1 Pan American Games 5 3 0 Pan American Championships 1 2 1 Total 11 7 4 Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Floor exercise World Championships 2005 Melbourne Floor exercise 2007 Stuttgart Floor exercise 2006 Aarhus Floor exercise 2011 Tokyo Floor exercise 2014 Nanning Floor exercise World Cup Final 2004 Birmingham Floor exercise 2006 São Paulo Floor exercise 2008 Madrid Floor exercise 2006 São Paulo Vault Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Vault 2007 Rio de Janeiro Floor exercise 2011 Guadalajara Team 2011 Guadalajara Floor exercise 2011 Guadalajara Vault 2003 Santo Domingo Team 2003 Santo Domingo Vault 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team Pan American Championships 2013 San Juan Floor exercise 2013 San Juan Vault 2014 Mississauga Floor exercise 2014 Mississauga Team South American Games 2010 Medellín Team 2010 Medellín Floor exercise 2010 Medellín Vault South American Championships 2011 Santiago Team 2011 Santiago Floor exercise 2011 Santiago Vault

Diego Matias Hypólito (Brazilian Portuguese: [dʒiˈeɡu iˈpɔlitu]; born 19 June 1986) is a Brazilian gymnast, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion in the floor exercise. He is the first male gymnast from Brazil, and South America, to win a medal at the World Championships. He also won 63 medals in the World Cup. Hypólito has represented Brazil at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games. He received the silver medal in floor exercise at the 2016 Olympic Games.

He is the brother of Daniele Hypólito, the first Brazilian gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships.

Early life

Hypólito was born in Santo André, São Paulo, but moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of a bus driver, Wagner Hypólito, and a seamstress, Geni Matias. He has Greek ancestry through his father (the surname Hypólito comes from the Greek surname Hippolyte, which was translated when his ancestors had immigrated to Brazil); he is also of Portuguese descent, through his mother.

As a child, he had his first contact with the sport at the Flamengo Rowing Club, the same one his sister, Daniele, used to train. At her insistence, he specialized in solo exercises, in which he won his first titles as infantil and later as júnior.

Career

Hypólito began gymnastics at age seven, following in his older sister's footsteps. He won the floor exercise event in the children's division at 1997's Brazilian National Championships and was 2001's all-around junior national champion.

By the age of 21, Hypólito had competed at the 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and the 2007 World Championships. A floor exercise specialist, he qualified for the FX event finals in all five competitions, placing fifth in 2002, fourth in 2003, earning a gold medal in 2005, a silver medal in 2006, and a gold again in 2007. With his 2005 win, Hypólito became the first male South American gymnast to medal at the World Championships.

In the spring of 2008, Hypólito contracted dengue fever. However, he was able to recover and resume training in time to compete at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where he was Brazil's only MAG representative. In the preliminary round of competition, he performed on floor and vault, and qualified to the floor event final in first place with a score of 15.950. In the floor finals, he fell on his last tumbling pass to finish the meet in sixth place.

Hypólito was one of three male Brazilians in artistic gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but he was eliminated during the qualification stage. However, in the 2016 Summer Olympics, held in his home country, he finished fourth in qualification for the floor exercise, and won a silver medal in the individual event final.

Eponymous skills

Hypólito has one skill on floor exercise officially named after him called the Hypólito on floor, which was successfully completed when he won the gold medal on the individual floor event at the 2006 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final in São Paulo, Brazil, defeating the then reigning Olympic floor champion, Kyle Shewfelt of Canada, in the process. The skill is a full-twisting Arabian double (front) layout and was assigned a D-score of F (0.6).

Personal life

Hypólito came out as gay in May 2019. In an article for UOL Esporte, Hypólito described many years of struggling with his sexuality because of his deeply religious upbringing, but wrote, "I want people to know that I'm gay and that I'm not ashamed of it."

References

1. Globo Esporte (in Portuguese)
2. "Diego Hypólito é primeiro brasileiro campeão mundial de ginástica" Murilo Garavello, UOL, 26 November 2005
3. "Dani leva o ouro no salto em SP; Diego mantém alto nível, mas é prata no solo". sportv.com (in Portuguese). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
4. "Diego Hypolito". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
5. "Brazil's Hypolito, Nory take silver and bronze in men's floor exercise". USA Today. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
6. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diego Hypólito". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
7. "Brazil's Hypolito, Nory take silver and bronze in men's floor exercise". USA Today. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
8. "Official website". Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
9. "Dani leva o ouro no salto em SP; Diego mantém alto nível, mas é prata no solo". sportv.com. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
10. AP "Gymnastics world champ Diego Hypolito confirmed with dengue in Brazil" Associated Press, 7 April 2008
11. "Diego Hypolito – site". DiegoHypolito. Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
12. "Official website". Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2007.
13. AP "Gymnastics world champ Diego Hypolito confirmed with dengue in Brazil" Associated Press, 7 April 2008
14. MAG qualification scores—apparatus Archived 17 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine NBC Olympics, 9 August 2008
15. Results – Floor Men's Floor Exercise Final Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine Beijing, 17 August 2008
16. Hypolito, Diego (8 May 2019). "Quero falar uma coisa". Universo Online Esporte (in Portuguese). Universo Online. Retrieved 8 May 2019.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 12 November 2007)
• Official profile at the Brazilian Gymnastics Federation at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 May 2008) (in Portuguese)
• Profile at International Gymnast magazine Archived 25 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• Diego Hypólito at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Diego Hypólito at Olympics.com
• Diego Hypólito at Olympedia
• Diego Hypólito at the Brazilian Olympic Committee (in Portuguese)

• 1986 births
• Living people
• Brazilian Protestants
• Sportspeople from Santo André, São Paulo
• Brazilian people of Greek descent
• Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
• Sportspeople of Portuguese descent
• Brazilian male artistic gymnasts
• LGBTQ gymnasts
• Brazilian gay sportsmen
• LGBTQ Protestants
• World champion gymnasts
• Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• Gymnasts at the 2003 Pan American Games
• Gymnasts at the 2007 Pan American Games
• Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Gymnasts at the 2011 Pan American Games
• Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gymnasts for Brazil
• Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
• Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil
• Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
• Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics
• Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics
• South American Games gold medalists for Brazil
• South American Games medalists in gymnastics
• Competitors at the 2010 South American Games
• LGBTQ Pentecostals
• Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
• 21st-century Brazilian LGBTQ people
• 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen