VIDEO: Paralympian, Natalia Mayara - Strength & Attitude * 2024
VIDEO: Paralympian, Natalia Mayara - Strength & Attitude * 2024

Nátalia Mayara Azevedo da Costa

Born 3 April 1994, is a former Brazilian wheelchair tennis player who competed in international level events. She is a double gold medalist at the 2015 Parapan American Games and competed at the Paralympic Games twice.

Mayara lost her legs after she was hit by a bus that went onto a sidewalk. She began playing tennis and swimming aged eleven, and she pursued a career in wheelchair tennis when she participated at a youth world championship as a junior tennis player in 2011.

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Goals London 2012 and Rio 2016 Paralympic games player

• Former top 15 wheelchair tennis player in the world.
• Pan-American Games gold medalist.
• Chosen athlete to receive the Olympic flag.
• Speaker for the UN in Geneve ( Switzerland ).
• Participant in the Olympic torch relay.
• First Brazilian woman to represent the sport in the Paralympics.
• First Brazilian to ever conquer a gold medal in the Pan-American games.
• Youngest tennis athlete to play the Paralympic games.

Athlete Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro

She works since mar. 2009 the feb. 2019, for 10 years, former Brazilian Paralympic athlete who played London 2012 and Rio 2016. During that time she got to be top 15 in the world, number one in Brazil and won a Pan-American gold medal.

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