Dora Varella Gallacci Pereira is a Brazilian professional skateboarder, born on 31 July 2001. She began skateboarding at ten after watching a cousin practise, and in January 2019, aged 17, she became a professional affiliated with the Brazilian Confederation of Skateboarding. She received her first X Games invitation in 2016, qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after the last qualifying championship in Des Moines in May 2021, and finished seventh in the women's park final there, then fourth at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In 2022 she shared the International Fair Play Committee's Fair Play Award for supporting Misugu Okamoto after her fall in the park final, and she became the first Brazilian woman to complete both a domestic and an international MegaPark.
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born 31 July 2001
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She has competed in women's park events at several World Skateboarding Championships
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is a Brazilian professional skateboarder
Competed In: 2020 Summer Olympics, 2021: Olympic debut
Varella participated in the women's park event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, finishing seventh in the finals
Competed In: 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024
Returning in the 2024 Paris Olympics, she finished fourth in the finals
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