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Rebeca Andrade exclusive: “I’m going to train for this Worlds”
By Scott Bregman, Sheila Vieira, and Lena Smirnova - 21 April 2025Two-time Olympic artistic gymnastics gold medallist Rebeca Andrade has a clear 2025 goal in mind: October’s World Championships in Jakarta.
“I’m going to train for this Worlds, I hope everything goes well and I get good results. I’m not even talking about being on the podium,” Andrade told Olympics.com at the Laureus Awards in Madrid, Spain.
“Of course, we work for that to happen, but if it doesn’t, that’s okay. I want to arrive at the competition and be able to help the team, have everyone together. So, from a sporting perspective, the goal is Worlds.”
How that looks, Andrade says, is still taking shape, as she and coach Francisco Porath form their ultimate plan.
“I’m still not sure [about the events], my coach can answer better than I can, but we train everything… except floor,” she said.
While Andrade grabbed the floor exercise gold at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, she’s excelled most internationally on the vault, the event on which she owns gold from Tokyo 2020 and silver in Paris. She’s also the 2021 and 2023 world champion on the event.
Despite her Paris triumph, floor is the event that tests her knees the most. Andrade has returned to the sport after three ACL tears in 2015, 2017 and 2019 and says that training the event takes a great toll on her body.
The Brazilian superstar has also said a fourth trip to the Games when they head to Los Angeles in 2028 could be in the cards, and this week in Madrid, Andrade expressed interest in the newly announced mixed team event set to debut there.
“It’s going to be a very tough, very competitive event. I’m not sure if I’ll take part – we don’t know anything yet. It will depend a lot on what the team plans. But it’s interesting and I want to see it,” she said.
