Rebeca Andrade is a rising star and very talented gymnast from Brazil who has achieved a lot of success in the past year during the Olympics.
She has won two gold medals on the vault. Vault is a very challenging exercise.
The first gold medal was at the Olympics and the second was at the World Championships. When Rebeca won her second gold medal, it was a very special achievement because it's not very common for a gymnast to win more than one gold medal on the vault.
- Rebeca Andrade is a Brazilian gymnast who has been successful in women's artistic gymnastics (WAG) over the past 24 months
- She won two gold medals on vault, one at the 2021 Olympics and one at the World Championships
- She is currently the holder of the two major vault titles in WAG
- A trend exists where gymnasts who win their first career gold medal on vault tend to win a second gold medal on the same event in the near future
- From 1952-present, 62% of gold medals awarded on vault went to gymnasts who won at least two gold medals on that apparatus over the course of their careers
- From 1985-present, 74% of gold medals awarded on vault went to gymnasts who won at least two gold medals on that apparatus over the course of their careers
- This trend is particularly notable on vault, as the figure stands at 43% for all other individual events (all-around, bars, beam, floor) over the same time period
- The trend first appeared from 1956-1968 and re-emerged in 1985 when Elena Shushunova won back-to-back vault titles at the World Championships
- The trend correlated with the popularity of Yurchenko-style vaults, which became popular in 1984 when Elena Gurova became the first gymnast to perform a Double-Twisting Yurchenko (DTY) vault in a televised competition
- Some gymnasts who have experienced "hot streaks" on vault have been unable to carry that success into Olympic Vault Finals