SATILA Ana

Date of Birth: 13 Mar 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Place of birth: ITURAMA

Birth Country:

Brazil

Place of residence : FOZ DO IGUACU

Residence Country:

Brazil

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Canoe Slalom	Women's Kayak	13
	Women's Canoe	10

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre	Women's Kayak Heats 1st Run	Finished
	Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre	Women's Kayak Heats 2nd Run	Finished
	Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre	Women's Kayak Semi-final	Finished
	Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre	Women's Canoe Heats 1st Run	Finished
	Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre	Women's Canoe Heats 2nd Run	Finished
	Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre	Women's Canoe Semi-final	Finished
	Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre	Women's Canoe Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	K1
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	17
2012	London, GBR	16

World Championships

Year	Location	K1	CSLX	C1	K1 Team	C1 Team
2019	La Seu d'Urgell, ESP	9	-	10	12	9
2018	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9	1	6	14	-
2017	Pau, FRA	15	2	3	-	-
2015	London, GBR	13	-	9	-	-
2014	McHenry, MD, USA	11	-	20	-	-
2013	Prague, CZE	32	-	12	-	-
2011	Bratislava, SVK	45	-	-	-	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	CSLX	C1
2019	Lima, PER	1	1

Oceania Open Championships

Year	Location	K1	C1
2019	Penrith, NSW, AUS	15	26

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	K1	C1
2019	Tres Coroas, BRA	1	1
2018	Tres Coroas, BRA	1	1
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1	1

World Cup - Overview per season since 2017

Year	Event	Standings	Three best ranks per season
2021	Kayak	-	1 x 9th, 1 x 14th
2021	Canoe	-	1 x 17th, 1 x 30th
2020	Kayak	-	1 x 4th, 1 x 9th
2020	Canoe	-	2 x 1st
2019	Kayak	4th	1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 10th
2019	Canoe	2nd	1 x 3rd, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 5th
2018	Kayak	15th	2 x 9th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 28th
2018	CSLX	2nd	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd
2018	Canoe	15th	2 x 3rd, 1 x 10th, 1 x 29th
2017	Kayak	11th	1 x 4th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 14th
2017	Canoe	8th	1 x 7th, 1 x 8th, 1 x 10th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
1	2020	Canoe	Pau, FRA
1	2020	Canoe	Tacen, SLO
1	2018	Women's CSLX	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
1	2018	Women's CSLX	Augsburg, GER
2	2019	Kayak	Prague, CZE
2	2018	Women's CSLX	Liptovsky Mikulas, SVK
3	2019	Canoe	Bratislava, SVK
3	2018	Canoe	Augsburg, GER
3	2018	Canoe	Krakow, POL
4	2020	Kayak	Pau, FRA
4	2019	Kayak	Markkleeberg, GER
4	2017	Kayak	La Seu d'Urgell, ESP

World Junior & U23 Championships (Under 23)

Year	Location	K1	CSLX	C1	K1 Team	C1 Team
2019	Krakow, POL	29	1	1	-	-
2018	Ivrea, ITA	10	1	6	4	13
2017	Bratislava, SVK	2	-	4	DNS	DNS

Legend
IP - In Progress, C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Aninha (Athlete, 27 Jul 2021)

Spending time with family, playing with dogs, cooking. (Athlete, 27 Jul 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Physical Education - International University Centre, Brazil

Partner Mathieu Desnos

Languages spoken:

English, Portuguese

Instituto Meninos do Lago [IMEL] [Foz do Iguacu, BRA]

Mathieu Desnos [personal]

Sporting relatives:

Her sister Omira Estacia has represented Brazil in canoe slalom, including at the 2019 World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain. Her partner Mathieu Desnos has competed for France and Brazil in canoe slalom, and won gold in the men's K1 event at the 2019 Pan American Championships in Tres Coroas, Brazil. (olhardireto.com.br, 30 Sep 2017; olharolimpico.blogosfera.uol.com.br, 04 May 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 20 Dec 2019)

Other sports:

She has also competed in canoe sprint and has been a Brazilian national champion in the sport. (Olimpiada Todo Dia YouTube channel, 08 Apr 2020)

She began paddling at age nine in Primavera do Leste, Brazil. (Athlete, 27 Jul 2021)

She began practising swimming under the guidance of her father to help with a congenital heart problem. She was later spotted by the municipal canoe coach of Primavera do Leste, Brazil, who invited her to try the sport. "I was invited by him because my body type suited paddling. The first time I was on a boat it was to compete. The feeling was the most amazing I had ever felt. I wanted to paddle every day, I was so passionate. It was something new, I was tired of the hard swimming training." (globoesporte.globo.com, 05 Aug 2019; Olimpiada Todo Dia YouTube channel, 08 Apr 2020; Athlete, 27 Jul 2021)

To win an Olympic medal. (Athlete, 27 Jul 2021)

She has eight sessions of two hours each on the water per week. In addition she does two to three gym sessions per week, as well as running and stretching. (dollo-pagaies.fr, 04 Dec 2020)

Being selected to compete at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games, winning bronze in the women's C1 at the 2017 World Championships in Pau, France. (Athlete, 27 Jul 2021; SportsDeskOnline, 27 Jul 2021)

Her family. (Athlete, 27 Jul 2021)

Philosophy:

"Be happy and enjoy the moment." (Athlete, 27 Jul 2021)

She was named 2019 Canoe Slalom Athlete of the Year by the Brazilian Olympic Committee [COB]. She previously won the award four times in a row from 2012 to 2015. (rio2016.com, 16 Dec 2014; brasil2016.gov.br, 14 Dec 2015; globoesporte.globo.com, 10 Dec 2019)

General Interest

General
FAREWELL TO COACH
She says that after Italian coach Ettore Vivaldi left the Brazilian national set-up following the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she thought about quitting the sport. She credits Vivaldi as having a major influence on her career. "He was like a second father to me, a very important person in my sporting development. It was a very difficult moment [when he left] as we were very close. I didn't want to go on without him so I thought about going to study paediatrics, which was my other dream. I was invited to join the Italian team so I could be with him but I could never see myself representing another country." She has since begun working with international slalom paddler Mathieu Desnos, who is also her partner. "It was not planned that he would come to Brazil and begin coaching me, it just happened. Mathieu is so important in my life. I need to have trust in a coach. After Ettore I could only find it in Mathieu." (otempo.com.br, 03 Jun 2020; correiobraziliense.com.br, 06 Mar 2020; dollo-pagaies.fr, 04 Dec 2020)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She is a member of the High Performance Athletes' Programme of the Brazilian Air Force [FAB], and holds the rank of sergeant. In 2019 she was named as a representative of the canoe slalom athletes' committee of the Pan American Canoe Federation. (fab.mil.br, 19 Oct 2020; copaconline.com, 14 Aug 2019; Facebook profile, 29 Nov 2020, 15 Aug 2020)

Milestones

She became the first Brazilian slalom paddler to win a world championship medal when she claimed bronze in the women's C1 event at the 2017 edition in Pau, France. In 2018 she won Brazil's first gold medal at the world championships, when she claimed victory in the women's K1 cross in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (globoesporte.globo.com, 05 Aug 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 20 Dec 2019)

At age 16 years and 136 days at the opening ceremony, she was the youngest Brazilian athlete to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (SportsDeskOnline, 03 Dec 2020; correiobraziliense.com.br, 06 Mar 2020)

Social Media

Legend

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

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