Silvia Andrea Santos Luz (born March 5, 1975 in
Araçatuba
Araçatuba is a city located in the northwest of São Paulo state, Brazil. The city has 198,129 inhabitants ( IBGE/2020) and spans . The city name comes from the Tupi language and means "abundance of araçá (a fruit, Psidium cattleianum)". Ara ...
), nicknamed Silvinha, is a Brazilian
women's basketball
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player. She represented her country twice at the
Summer Olympics
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, starting in
1996
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(
Atlanta, Georgia
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), and won a silver and a bronze medal with the
Brazil women's national basketball team
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.
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1975 births
Living people
People from Araçatuba
Brazilian women's basketball players
Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball players of Brazil
Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil
Olympic medalists in basketball
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from São Paulo (state)
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