Ana Maria Maciel
{{Short description|Brazilian rhythmic gymnast}}
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{{MedalSport|Rhythmic gymnastics}}
{{MedalCountry|{{BRA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games }}
{{MedalGold | 2003 Santo Domingo | Group all-around}}
{{MedalGold | 2003 Santo Domingo | 5 ribbons}}
{{MedalGold | 2003 Santo Domingo | {{nowrap|3 hoops + 2 balls}} }}|show-medals=yes|club=UNOPAR}}
Ana Maria Teixeira Maciel (born 18 November 1987) is a retired Brazilian rhythmic gymnast.{{Cite web |title=TEIXEIRA MACIEL Ana Maria - FIG Athlete Profile |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/athletes/bio_detail.php?id=17512 |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=www.gymnastics.sport}} She is a three time Pan American Games gold medalist.
Biography
Ana Maria took up gymnastics, both artistic and rhythmic, at age seven as her mother enrolled her in both sports in her native Londrina. She later choose to focus on rhythmic as she was afraid of the apparatuses in artistic gymnastics.{{Cite web |title=UOL Esporte - Olimpíadas 2004 |url=https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/olimpiadas/brasileiros/ginasticaritmica/anamariamaciel.jhtm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212003142/https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/olimpiadas/brasileiros/ginasticaritmica/anamariamaciel.jhtm |archive-date=2021-02-12 |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=www.uol.com.br}} In 1998 she was the runner up at the Brazilian Championships in the children category.
In 2000 she became the national All-Around champion. Three years later Ana Maria was part of the group that repeated the gold medal in the All-Around at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, adding another two in the finals with 5 ribbons and 3 hoops & 2 balls.{{Cite web |title=Brazil's medals |url=http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/030015_12/101727 |website=memoria.bn.br}} That year she also competed in the 2003 World Championships in Budapest, where the group was 9th in the All-Around.{{Cite web |title=26.World Championships in Budapest, Hungary 2003 |url=http://r-gymnast.bplaced.net/RG/Results/VB2003.htm#Gall_around |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=r-gymnast.bplaced.net}}
Maciel also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens along Larissa Barata, Dayane Camilo, Fernanda Cavalieri, Tayanne Mantovaneli and Jeniffer Oliveira.{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Ana Maria Maciel |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/107866 |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=www.olympedia.org}} They were 7th in qualification, in the final Camilo ended up dropping the ribbon during one of the performances dooming the group to finish 8th.{{Cite web |title=Brasileiras erram e repetem o oitavo lugar de Sydney - 28/08/2004 - UOL Olimpíadas 2004 - Ginástica Rítmica |url=https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/olimpiadas/ultimas/2004/08/28/ult2257u16.jhtm |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=www.uol.com.br}}
Ana Maria retired after the Olympics in 2004 at age 17.{{Cite web |title=The Meaning of Pain in Rhythmic Gymnastics Athletes |url=https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/39/39136/tde-20122017-112815/publico/Dissertacao_Gabriela_de_Carvalho_Monteiro_Goncalves_original.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509085922/https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/39/39136/tde-20122017-112815/publico/Dissertacao_Gabriela_de_Carvalho_Monteiro_Goncalves_original.pdf |archive-date=2021-05-09 |page=26}}
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Category:Brazilian rhythmic gymnasts
Category:Sportspeople from Londrina
Category:Gymnasts from Paraná (state)
Category:20th-century Brazilian women
Category:Gymnasts at the 2003 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
Category:Pan American Games gymnasts for Brazil
Category:Pan American Games gold medalists in gymnastics
Category:Olympic gymnasts for Brazil