Dora Varella

Dora Varella
Dora Varella in 2025
Personal information
Full nameDora Varella Gallacci Pereira[1]
BornDora Varella Gallacci Pereira
(2001-07-31) 31 July 2001
São Paulo, Brazil[2]
Home townSão Paulo, Brazil
OccupationProfessional skateboarder
Websitedoravarella.com.br (in Portuguese)
Sport
CountryBrazil
SportSkateboarding
PositionRegular footed[2]
Rank
9th (June 2021)[3]
Event
Park
Turned pro
2019
Coached byEdgard Pereira and Ítalo Penarrubia[1]
Achievements and titles
2020 Summer Olympics: Women's park – 7th
2024 Summer Olympics: Women's park – 4th

Dora Varella Gallacci Pereira (born 31 July 2001)[4] is a Brazilian professional skateboarder.[5] She has competed in women's park events at several World Skateboarding Championships, finishing 15th in 2018 and sixth in 2019.[6][7]

Early life

Varella began participating in the sport at the age of 10,[8] after watching one of her cousins practise and asking her parents for a skateboard of her own. In January 2019, aged 17, she became a professional athlete affiliated with the Brazilian Confederation of Skateboarding.[9]

Dora Varella in 2019

Career

2016

In 2016, Varella received the first invitation of her career to compete at the X Games.[10]

2021: Olympic debut

After the last Olympic qualifying championship held in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, in May 2021, Dora Varella officially qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.[11]

Varella participated in the women's park event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics,[8] finishing seventh in the finals.[6] Heading into the games, she ranked ninth in the Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings for women's park.[3]

2022

In 2022, Varella and Yndiara Asp, together with Sakura Yosozumi, Kokona Hiraki, Sky Brown, Poppy Olsen and Bryce Wettstein, received the International Fair Play Committee's (IFPC) Fair Play Award from the International Olympic Committee for their display of sportsmanship during the 2020 Summer Olympics. The award recognized the group's support for Japanese skateboarder Misugu Okamoto after her fall in the women's park final.[12]

In 2022, Varella became the first Brazilian woman to complete both a domestic and an international MegaPark. She first completed Gui Khury's MegaPark in Curitiba, an eight-metre-high course combining elements of a mega ramp and a skatepark, where she also became the first Brazilian woman to land a 360-degree spin over the gap. Later that year, she completed Elliot Sloan's MegaPark in California, including its return section. At the time, only a small number of female skateboarders had successfully completed a full MegaPark course, making Varella one of the first women to do so.[13]

2024

Returning in the 2024 Paris Olympics, she finished fourth in the finals.[14]

Varella (third from right to left) with the Brazilian women's skate park team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris

2025

In November, Varella won the women’s title of the 2025 Mini Ramp Pro Attack in her hometown of São Paulo, with a final score of 86,45.[15]

2026: STU National champion

In March, Varella competed at the 2025 world skateboarding championship, which had been postponed from the previous year and happened in her hometown of São Paulo. She finished her participation in ninth place in the semifinals, just short of qualifying for the final, with a score of 72.25, while the eighth qualified skateboarder, Japanese Hiraki Cocona, scored 72.44.[16]

In June, Varella won the women’s park event at the STU National stage in Cuiabá, her first STU National title in three years. She scored 80.59 points in the final, becoming the only finalist to surpass the 80 point mark, and finished ahead of Fernanda Galdino and Manuela Tomitake.[17]

In July, with a score of 89.07 at the women’s park event of the STU National stage in Slavador, Varella became the champion of this stage and of the overall 2026 STU National season.[18]


Achievements

National

  • Brazilian Bowl Championship – CBSK (2015)
  • Vans Park Series Women's National Championships – Brazil (2017)[19]
  • Brazilian Park Championship (2020)
  • STU National – Brazil (2021)[20][21]
  • STU National – Criciúma (2023)[22][23]
  • STU National – Cuiabá (2026)[17]
  • STU National – Salvador (2026)[18]

International

  • Girls Vans Combi Pool Classic – USA: category 14 & under (2016)[24]
  • Girls Vans Combi Pool Classic – USA: category 15 & over (2017 & 2018)[25][26]
  • STU Open Rio (2023)[27][28]

Pan American

  • Vans Park Series Women's Continental Championships – United States (2017 and 2018)[29][30]

References

  1. 1 2 "Team Brazil Guide Paris 2024 (v04)" (PDF). COB — Comitê Olímpico do Brasil. Comitê Olímpico do Brasil. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 O'Grady, Alec (16 November 2019). "Brazil Women's Olympic Skateboarding Team". Braille Skateboarding. Archived from the original on 12 October 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings (Park, Female)". World Skate. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "Dora Varella Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "Soaring to new heights". China Daily. 2 October 2021. Archived from the original on 1 November 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Skateboarding: VARELLA Dora". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Dora Varella". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  8. 1 2 "Soaring to new heights (page 2)". China Daily. 2 October 2021. Archived from the original on 2 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  9. ↑ Brunaldi, Igor (3 August 2021). "A originalidade de Dora Varella: a madura, responsável e determinada skatista olímpica" [The originality of Dora Varella: the mature, responsible and determined Olympic skateboarder]. Rolling Stone (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  10. ↑ "Document". Brazilian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "Who is Dora Varella, Brazil's medal hope in skate park". GQ (in Portuguese). Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  12. ↑ Brasil, Comitê Olímpico do (10 January 2022). "Dora Varella e Yndiara Asp vencem troféu Fair Play por participação". Comitê Olímpico do Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  13. ↑ sportlife. "Dora Varella se torna a primeira mulher a dropar duas MegaParks". Terra (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  14. ↑ Guerra, Marcos (6 August 2024). "Dora Varella termina em 4º na final do skate park feminino; australiana fica com o ouro" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Globo.com.
  15. ↑ Barros, Adielson de (10 November 2025). "Dora Varella e Pedro Carvalho vencem o Mini Ramp Pro Attack". Olimpíada Todo Dia (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  16. ↑ "WST Skateboarding World Championships São Paulo 2025 (in 2026): All results, run scores and medals in WST Street and Park events". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  17. 1 2 "STU define campeões em Cuiabá; Akio e Dora vencem no Park; confira". ge (in Brazilian Portuguese). Grupo Globo. 28 June 2026. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
  18. 1 2 "Combo para Dora Varella no Park em Salvador, campeã da etapa e da temporada do STU National – Surto Olímpico" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  19. ↑ "Vans Park Series National Championships at Brazil Women's Finals Results". TheBoardr.com. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  20. ↑ "Pedro Barros, Dora Varella, Rayssa Leal and João Lucas Alves win the STU National". Brazilian Olympic Committee. 25 January 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  21. ↑ "STU Nationals Brazil Park Womens Results". TheBoardr.com. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  22. ↑ Kevork, Armen (5 March 2023). "Dora, Akio e Sardi São Os Vencedores No Park do STU Em Criciúma" [Dora, Akio and Sardi are the winners at the STU Park in Criciúma]. CemporcentoSK (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  23. ↑ "STU Cariciuma Womens Park Finals Results". TheBoardr.com. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  24. ↑ "Vans Girls Combi Pool Classic Results 2016". GirlsSkateNetwork.com. 23 January 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  25. ↑ "2017 Girls Combi Pool Classic". Thrasher. 22 January 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  26. ↑ "Vans Girls Combi Pool Classic Results 2018". GirlsSkateNetwork.com. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  27. ↑ "STU Open Rio: Pedro Barros e Dora Varella levam título no Park (STU Open Rio: Pedro Barros and Dora Varella win the Park title)". TV Cultura (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  28. ↑ "STU Open at Rio Women's Park Finals Results". TheBoardr.com. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  29. ↑ "Vans Park Series Americas Continental Championships Women's Finals Results". TheBoardr.com. 30 July 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  30. ↑ "Vans Park Series Americas Continental Championships Women's Finals Results". TheBoardr.com. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
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