BARRETTO JUNIOR Francisco

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 31 Oct 1989

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.75/5'8''

Place of birth: RIBEIRAO PRETO

Birth Country:

Brazil

Place of residence : SAO PAULO

Residence Country:

Brazil

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Men's All-Around
	Men's Floor Exercise
	Men's Pommel Horse
	Men's Rings
	Men's Vault
	Men's Parallel Bars
	Men's Horizontal Bar
	Men's Team BRA Brazil

Schedule

No data currently available. Please try again later.

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	FX	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	59	5	33	22	37	26	6

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	-	131	69	21	90	-	10
2018	Doha, QAT	-	15	75	11	99	-	7
2015	Glasgow, GBR	84	154	41	32	160	55	8
2014	Nanning, CHN	-	37	43	51	63	209	6
2013	Antwerp, BEL	-	23	41	-	-	-	-
2011	Tokyo, JPN	-	39	87	54	76	162	13
2010	Rotterdam, NED	173	69	123	81	183	74	19

Pan American Games

Year	Location	HB	PB	PH	Team
2019	Lima, PER	1	8	1	1

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	FX	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2021	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	-	-	10	3	-	33	1
2018	Lima, PER	22	2	4	23	32	5	3

South American Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2019	Santiago, CHI	11	15	9	9	5	13	1	1

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	HB	PB	PH	AA
2019/2020	1 x 5th	1 x 7th	1 x 9th	-
2018	-	-	-	1 x 8th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
5	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Doha, QAT	14.100
7	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Baku, AZE	13.600
7	2019/2020	Parallel Bars	Doha, QAT	14.000
8	2018	All-Around	Chicago, IL, USA	78.832
9	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Doha, QAT	13.400
12	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Baku, AZE	13.600
14	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Cottbus, GER	13.633
25	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Cottbus, GER	12.866

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Chico (globoesporte.globo.com, 06 Aug 2016)

Occupation:

Athlete, Serves in the Air Force

Physical Education - Municipal University of Sao Caetano do Sul, Sao Paulo, BRA

Wife Carolina, son Francisco

Languages spoken:

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Esporte Clube Pinheiros [Sao Paulo, BRA]

Marcos Goto [national]

He injured his lower back during an exercise on parallel bars at the 2017 World Cup event in Varna, Bulgaria. The injury meant he was unable to compete at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, QC, Canada. He returned to competition in March 2018. (gazetaesportiva.com, 03 Mar 2018; opovo.com.br, 16 Sep 2017)

National team:

2009 (Facebook page, 21 Sep 2017)

He took up the sport in 1997. (Facebook page, 07 Sep 2019)

"I practised other sports such as skating, handball and swimming, but gymnastics was the one that I liked to compete in. It is a passion without explanation." (g1.globo.com, 24 Aug 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Jornal da Clube YouTube channel, 26 Aug 2019)

He trains six hours a day, six days a week. (portalcomunicar.com.br, 01 Aug 2019)

Winning three gold medals at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (Jornal da Clube YouTube channel, 26 Aug 2019)

His mother and his wife. (globoesporte.globo.com, 08 Aug 2016, 24 Oct 2015)

Philosophy:

"The only way to do an excellent job is to love what you do." (cob.org.br, 01 Nov 2015)

He was named Best Male Athlete of the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, at the inaugural Panam Sports Awards. (panamsports.org, 14 Dec 2019)

In 2019 he received an acknowledgement from the Regional Council of Physical Education of Sao Paulo state in Brazil. (Facebook page, 31 Aug 2019)

General Interest

General
DEALING WITH HEIGHT
At 175cm he considers himself tall for artistic gymnastics, and says he has had to train more than shorter gymnasts. "I am a little tall for rings and for the individual all-around, because I struggle with rotations and weight, the angle [of performance] for the rings becomes more difficult. That is why some apparatus like the pommel horse and the high bar are easier because the range of motion is wider. I stayed in the sport because of a persistent love for gymnastics. I have struggled a lot and have had to train more than others in order to do certain movements. Tall guys often abandon the sport because of how difficult it is. That's how gymnastics selects its athletes." (folhavitoria.com.br, 30 Jul 2019)

Milestones

He became the first Brazilian gymnast to win a gold medal on pommel horse at the Pan American Games when he claimed victory at the 2019 edition in Lima, Peru. (radioesportiva.com.br, 17 Aug 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 30 Jul 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

Timing and scoring provided by OMEGA. Results powered by Atos