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Brazilian Paralympic volleyball player (born 1990)

Nathalie Filomena
Filomena at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Personal information
Full name
  • Nathalie Filomena de Lima Silva
Born13 April 1990 (1990-04-13) (age 34)
Jacareí, São Paulo, Brazil
Medal record
Women's sitting volleyball
Representing  Brazil
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio Team
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2022 Sarajevo Team
Parapan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Lima Team

Nathalie Filomena de Lima Silva (born 13 April 1990) is a Brazilian Paralympic volleyball player.

Biography and career

Filomena is from Jacareí, São Paulo. She was born with a plexobranchial lesion in her left arm and had impaired movement, in addition to being born with mild paralysis on that same side. She played conventional volleyball since childhood and discovered sitting volleyball at the age of fifteen. She has a degree in physical education and teaches swimming at the city hall of Suzano.

Filomena was a member of the Brazilian women's sitting volleyball team at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, where she won a silver medal. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where the team won the bronze medal after defeating Ukraine 3-0. At the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, she won a silver medal again after losing to the United States team 3-0. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, the team lost to the United States in the semi-finals, but won the bronze medal after beating Canada 3-1.

In November 2022, Filomena won the World Championship with the Brazilian national team in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, after a 3-2 victory over Canada.

References

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  7. Gustavo Cunha (4 September 2021). "Vôlei sentado feminino supera o Canadá e garante a medalha de bronze". Rede do Esporte. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
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