Name: Arthur Nory (also Mariano in his official Olympics profile)
Country: Brazil
Sport: Gymnastics
Previous Olympic Experience: Rio 2016, Tokyo 2021
Social Media: Instagram
Who is Arthur Nory
Nory is a very popular gymnast, with 1.3 million Instagram followers and fans that include Simone Biles, who jokingly called him her “Brazilian boyfriend” at the 2016 Rio Games. Now he’s one of at least 144 out LGBTQ athletes headed to the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
He is not shy about being shirtless, which gave him a large gay fan base even before he revealed in 2021 that he has a boyfriend, marketing analyst João Otávio Tasso.
In a June Instagram post of the two of them shirtless on a beach, Tasso said that Nory has “given him luck” since 2017.
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In an April post on his Instagram page, Nory posted a cute photo of the two of them side by side along with two dogs.
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As far as I can tell, Nory has not defined how he views himself in terms of being gay, bi, queer or other. But what is clear is that he is about one of the very few, maybe as little as two, artistic male Olympic gymnasts to be out during a Games. There have been a few out trampoline gymnasts, including Dominic Clarke of Australia in 2021 and Brazilian Rayan Dutra, who is heading to Paris.
Arthur Nory at the Paris Summer Olympics
Nory, 30, has been an elite gymnast going back nearly a decade. Among his honors: Nory won a bronze medal in the 2016 Rio Games in the floor exercise and a gold medal at the 2019 world championships in the horizontal bar and silver in the horizontal bar at this year’s Baku World Cup in Azerbijan.
The son of a Brazilian father and a Japanese Brazilian mother, Nory was excited to be competing at the Tokyo Games in 2021. “Part of my family, my mother’s family, are from Japan, from Okinawa,” he said at the time. “It will be amazing to compete at home again.”
At 30, Nory will be among the oldest male gymnasts at the Olympics (the average age in Tokyo was about 25 years old), but just being at his third Games is quite the accomplishment, especially since he’s doing it as an out man.
