2015 Andrade became
age-eligible for senior international competitions in 2015. She recovered from her toe injury and made her senior international debut at the
Ljubljana World Cup, where she won the bronze medal on the uneven bars behind
Isabela Onyshko and
Jonna Adlerteg. She then went to the São Paulo World Cup and won the silver medal on vault behind
Deng Yalan; she placed seventh on the uneven bars. She then went to the Flanders International Team Challenge in
Ghent where a mixed team of Brazilian and Italian gymnasts won the bronze medal. In the all-around, she won the silver medal behind Flavia Saraiva. In June, Andrade
tore her ACL which caused her to miss her most important competitions of the season – the Pan American Games and the World Championships. She qualified for the uneven bars event final where she finished eighth. She then competed at the
Doha World Cup and won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind
Jonna Adlerteg. She was selected to compete at the
Olympic Test Event alongside
Jade Barbosa,
Daniele Hypólito,
Lorrane Oliveira,
Carolyne Pedro, and
Flávia Saraiva in order to attempt to qualify Brazil
a team quota for the Olympic Games. Andrade competed on vault and uneven bars only, and she performed a double-twisting
Yurchenko vault and a clean uneven bars routine. The Brazilian team won the gold medal in the team event and qualified a full team to the 2016 Summer Olympics. Individually, she qualified for the uneven bars final, where she won the bronze medal behind Germans
Elisabeth Seitz and
Sophie Scheder. She then competed at the São Paulo World Cup, where she qualified for the uneven bars and balance beam finals. In the uneven bars final, she tied with German
Kim Bui for the silver medal. The next day on the balance beam, she won the bronze medal behind teammate Daniele Hypólito and
Simona Castro. She then went to the Anadia World Cup where she won two silver medals on balance beam and floor exercise, both behind teammate Saraiva. In late June Andrade was officially named to the Brazilian Olympic team alongside Barbosa, Hypólito, Oliveira, and Saraiva. After the Anadia World Cup, Andrade was named to represent
Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics alongside Jade Barbosa, Daniele Hypólito, Lorrane Oliveira, and Flavia Saraiva. Her final competition in preparation for the Olympics was a friendly meet in the Netherlands on 10 July where she tied with Dutch gymnast
Eythora Thorsdottir for the gold medal in the all-around. At the 2016 Olympics Andrade performed well in
the qualification round and helped Brazil qualify for the team finals in fifth place. She qualified individually to the all-around final in third place with a total score of 58.732 behind American gymnasts
Simone Biles and
Aly Raisman. During
the team finals, Andrade fell on the floor exercise, and the Brazilian team finished eighth. In
the individual all-around, she finished eleventh with a total score of 56.965. After the Olympic Games Andrade competed at the Brazilian Championships in November. She won the gold medal with the Flamengo club team in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam. She won the silver medal on floor exercise behind
Thais Fidelis.
2017 Andrade won three World Cup medals in 2017 but also endured two different injuries. She began her season at the
City of Jesolo Trophy, where the Brazilian team won the silver medal behind the United States. Andrade won the silver medal in the all-around behind American gymnast
Riley McCusker. In the event finals, she finished fifth on the uneven bars, sixth on the balance beam, and fourth on the floor exercise. She then competed at the
Koper Challenge Cup and won the gold medal on vault. Then at the Osijek Challenge Cup, she only competed on the uneven bars but did not qualify for the event final. In May, Andrade injured her ankle during training and had to wear a protective boot for two months. She then competed at the Varna Challenge Cup and won the gold medal on both the vault and the uneven bars. Andrade was initially named to the
World Championships team along with first-year senior Thais Fidelis; however, she tore her ACL for a second time during the warmups for podium training and withdrew.
2018–19 . Andrade competed at her first
World Championships in 2018 after returning from her second ACL tear but only was able to compete for a little less than a year before tearing her ACL for the third time. She returned to competition in September 2018 at the
Pan American Championships. She only competed on two events, the vault and uneven bars. She helped the Brazilian team win the silver medal behind the United States. She was then named to the Brazilian team for the
2018 World Championships alongside Jade Barbosa, Thais Fidelis, Lorrane Oliveira, and Flavia Saraiva. Andrade made her World Championships debut and competed on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam, and Brazil qualified for the team final in fifth place. In the team final, the Brazilian team finished seventh after Andrade, Barbosa, and Saraiva all fell on the uneven bars. After the World Championships, Andrade competed at the
2018 Cottbus World Cup where she won the gold medal on vault and balance beam and the silver medal on uneven bars behind
Nina Derwael. Andrade only competed once in 2019; at the DTB Team Challenge in
Stuttgart, she helped the Brazilian team win team gold, and she won the all-around gold medal. At the Brazilian Championships, Andrade tore her ACL for the third time in her career. This ended her 2019 season and caused her to miss the
2019 World Championships. At the World Championships, the Brazilian team without Andrade finished fourteenth and did not
qualify a team for the
2020 Olympic Games.
2020 Andrade's comeback was cut short by the
COVID-19 pandemic. She returned to competition at the
Baku World Cup, where she finished third on uneven bars behind
Fan Yilin and
Anastasia Ilyankova and second on balance beam behind
Urara Ashikawa during qualifications and therefore qualified to the event finals. However, the event finals were canceled due to the
pandemic in Azerbaijan. In July, Andrade and numerous other
Brazilian Olympic hopefuls traveled to Portugal as they were unable to resume training due to the
pandemic in Brazil remaining unstable and gyms remaining closed. In December 2020, she tested positive for
COVID-19 but was
asymptomatic.
2021 Andrade had a breakthrough year in 2021 and won her first Olympic and World medals. She returned to competition at the
Pan American Championships which offered her a chance to
qualify for the Olympic Games as an individual. The Brazilian team of Andrade,
Christal Bezerra,
Ana Luiza Lima, Lorrane Oliveira, and
Júlia Soares won the gold medal. Individually, Andrade won the gold medal in the all-around with a total score of 56.700. This result earned her and
Luciana Alvarado the continental quota spots for the 2020 Olympic Games. Following
Simone Biles’ withdrawal, Andrade entered
the all-around final as the top qualifier. After leading the competition in the first two rotations of the all-around final, Andrade won silver in the all-around after stepping out of bounds on two of her floor exercise tumbling passes. This was the first-ever Olympic medal for a female Brazilian gymnast. Setting another record for her country, she won the gold medal in
the vault final with an average score of 15.083. This made her the first Olympic champion in Brazilian women's artistic gymnastics history. In the
floor final, Andrade placed fifth with a score of 14.033 after stepping out of bounds on two of her tumbling passes. Reflecting on her success at the Games, Andrade told reporters, "[T]his is not only for me but for the whole of Brazil. I want to inspire younger kids with my achievements... It's not just the medals. I made everybody proud of me." Andrade continued training after the Olympic Games. She helped her club win the team gold medal at the Brazilian Championships. She also won the gold medal in the all-around. At the
World Championships in
Kitakyushu, she competed on the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam. She chose not to compete on the floor exercise in order to preserve her health. She qualified for all three event finals. She finished first on both the vault with an average score of 14.800 and on the uneven bars with a score of 15.100, and she finished eighth on the balance beam. She became the first Brazilian gymnast to ever qualify for a World uneven bars event final. In the vault final, she won the gold medal with an average score of 14.966, nearly a full point ahead of silver medalist
Asia D'Amato. This was Brazil's second women's gold medal at the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first being
Daiane dos Santos's gold medal on the floor exercise in
2003. Then in the uneven bars final, she scored a 14.633 and won the silver medal behind Chinese gymnast
Wei Xiaoyuan becoming the first Brazilian gymnast to win a World medal on the uneven bars. and the silver on the balance beam. In July, Andrade was named to the Brazilian team for the
Pan American Championships alongside
Flávia Saraiva,
Christal Bezerra,
Lorrane Oliveira,
Carolyne Pedro and
Júlia Soares. On the first day of competition, which determined the all-around and apparatus results, Andrade won the gold medal on the uneven bars as well as the silver medal on the balance beam behind Saraiva. Additionally, she helped Brazil qualify to the team final in first place. She opted not to compete on floor exercise. In the team final, Andrade contributed scores on vault, uneven bars and balance beam towards Brazil's first-place finish ahead of the United States and Canada — their first victory over the United States at the competition since 1997. Andrade stated that "This win is very big for the future of gymnastics [in Brazil], for the girls that are coming up and the ones who came before us." despite performing watered-down routines. In September, Andrade competed at the
Paris World Challenge Cup; she only competed on the uneven bars. She won silver behind American
Shilese Jones. In October, Andrade was named to the team to compete at the
World Championships in
Liverpool alongside Saraiva, Soares, Oliveira, Pedro and Bezerra. In the qualification round, Andrade qualified in first place to the all-around final, second to the floor final, third to the uneven bars final, seventh to the beam final, and helped Brazil qualify to the team final in third place. On vault, she scored 15.066 for her first vault, a
Cheng, however, her hands slipped on the table during her second vault attempt, performing just a Yurchenko back tuck instead of her intended double twist. Her second vault scored 11.466, putting her outside the final. In the team final, Brazil finished fourth behind the United States, Great Britain and Canada. In the all-around final, Andrade won the gold medal ahead of Shilese Jones and
Jessica Gadirova with a score of 56.899, becoming the first South American gymnast to win a World all-around title. Andrade then won the bronze medal in the floor exercise final alongside
Jade Carey, finishing behind
Jessica Gadirova and
Jordan Chiles, who finished in first and second place respectively.
2023 Andrade competed at the Brazilian national championships in August, but did not compete on floor exercise. She placed first on both uneven bars and balance beam. She next competed at the
Paris World Challenge Cup where she placed second on uneven bars behind
Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos. In late September Andrade competed at the
World Championships in
Antwerp alongside
Flávia Saraiva,
Jade Barbosa,
Júlia Soares, and
Lorrane Oliveira. Together they won a historic silver medal behind the United States, earning Brazil their first team medal at a World Championships. During the all-around final Andrade finished second behind
Simone Biles. On the first day of event finals Andrade won gold on vault ahead of Biles after the latter fell on her
eponymous skill. On the final day of competition Andrade won bronze on balance beam and silver on floor exercise. In winning a medal on balance beam, Andrade became the eleventh gymnast to
win a World Championships medal on every single apparatus. Andrade ended the year competing at the
Pan American Games in
Santiago. During qualification (which also served as the team final) she competed on vault, uneven bars, and balance beam towards Brazil's second place finish. She qualified to all three event finals. During the vault final Andrade won after performing what many described as the "best
Cheng in history". During the uneven bars final she won silver behind
Zoe Miller and won gold on balance beam ahead of teammate Saraiva.
2024 Andrade began her Olympic year in March, competing at the
Antalya World Challenge Cup, where she only competed on the uneven bars. She won silver behind
Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos. At the
2024 Paris Olympics, Andrade and the Brazilian team won the bronze medal in the team all-around final, the first ever for the country. She also won the silver medal in the individual all-around final. On the first day of apparatus finals, Andrade won the silver medal on vault. Andrade then competed during the third day of apparatus finals on beam and floor, placing fourth on beam and winning gold on floor. Her performance in the latter final bested
Diego Hypólito's second-place finish at the 2016 Olympics to make her the first Brazilian Olympic floor champion of either gender. During the floor final medal ceremony,
Simone Biles and
Jordan Chiles bowed to Andrade as she walked onto the podium, a gesture that went viral. Andrade's collective six medals from the 2020 and 2024 Olympics make her the most decorated Brazilian Olympian in any discipline, a record previously held by sailors
Robert Scheidt and
Torben Grael. used by Rebeca Andrade at the
Paris 2024 Olympic Games on display at the
Olympic Museum in Lausanne
2025 In 2025 Andrade did not compete in any of the tournaments to rest and take a
gap year from gymnastics.
2026 On February 6 2026, Rebeca, participated in the opening of the
2026 Winter Olympics carrying the
Olympic flag. == Personal life ==