Kátia Aparecida Ferreira Silva
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| Born | 24 April 1995 Unaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |||||||||||
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| Country | Brazil | |||||||||||
| Sport | Women's Goalball | |||||||||||
| Disability class | B1 | |||||||||||
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Kátia Aparecida Ferreira Silva (born 24 April 1995) is a Brazilian goalball player.
Silva was born in Unaí, Minas Gerais.[1] She has congenital glaucoma, but only discovered the problem at the age of thirteen after suffering a hemorrhage caused by eye pressure.[1] The news that she would be blind for the rest of her life caused her to suffer depression that led to a suicide attempt in her hometown.[2] She moved to Brasília in 2015, where she discovered goalball.[1]