Cíntia "Tuiú" Silva dos Santos (born 31 January 1975 in

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player. In over a decade with the

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, she competed in three Olympics -

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

, and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- winning two medals, and three

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, winning it all in 1994.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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Playoffs

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References

1975 births Living people People from Mauá Brazilian expatriate basketball people in the United States Brazilian women's basketball players 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen Olympic basketball players for Brazil Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1999 Pan American Games Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Brazil Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil Olympic medalists in basketball Pan American Games basketball players for Brazil Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Basketball players from São Paulo (state) {{Brazil-basketball-bio-stub