- At the opening of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, in Maracanã, tennis player Gustavo Kuerten passed the torch into the hands of Hortência, who handed it to the runner Vanderlei de Lima, who was the one who lit the Olympic pyre.
- Played five FIBA world championships and two Olympic games.
- Hortência is the highest scorer in the history of the Brazilian Women's Basketball Team, with 3,160 points, scored in 127 official matches, an average of 24.9 points per match.
- Her son João Victor Marcari Oliva, the result of his marriage to businessman José Victor Oliva, is a rider, having competed in equestrian at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
- Won silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
- She was the cover of the men's magazine Playboy in the Brazilian edition of number 151 in February 1988. Her essay was 10 pages long and was produced by photographer J. R. Duran.
- Won the FIBA Women's Basketball World Championship in 1994 in Australia.
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