| Cátia Oliveira | |||||||||||
| Fullname: | Cátia Cristina da Silva Oliveira | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1991 6, df=yes | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Cerqueira César, Brazil | ||||||||||
| Website: | http://catiaoliveira.com.br/ | ||||||||||
| Country: | Brazil | ||||||||||
| Sport: | Para table tennis | ||||||||||
| Event: | Class 2 | ||||||||||
| Paralympics: | 2016 | ||||||||||
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Cátia Cristina da Silva Oliveira (born 12 June 1991) is a Brazilian Para table tennis player and former footballer. Cátia won a gold medal at the 2015 Parapan American Games and was selected for the 2016 Paralympic Games in her home country.[1] Cátia began playing table tennis in 2013 and developed quickly, winning a place on Brazil's national team in time for the 2015 Parapan American Games. In October 2018 she won a silver medal at the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Slovenia. She was bereaved by the untimely death of her father during the tournament.[2]
Botucatu Futebol Clube signed Cátia as a promising footballer when she was 14 years old. In October 2007, teammate Renata Costa was driving Cátia and Michele in her Opel Corsa when she crashed into another car at a level crossing. Michele and Renata suffered minor injuries, while Cátia, who was asleep in the back seat, suffered a spinal cord injury resulting in paraplegia.[3] [4] Costa was fined $576 for driving without a licence.[5] Cátia had been called up to the Brazil women's national under-17 football team on the day of the accident.[6]
In June 2021 she was one of the women as part of Brazil's table tennis team for the 2020 Paralympic Games which were delayed for a year due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The other athletes were Bruna Costa Alexandre (class 10), Danielle Rauen (in class 9) and Joyce Oliveira (in class 4).[7]