Naide Gomes
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Naide Gomes
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 Naide Gomes |
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| Women's athletics | ||
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Competitor for  Portugal |
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| World Indoor Championships | ||
| Gold | 2004 Budapest | Pentathlon |
| Gold | 2008 Valencia | Long jump |
| Silver | 2010 Doha | Long jump |
| Bronze | 2006 Moscow | Long jump |
| European Indoor Championships | ||
| Gold | 2005 Madrid | Long jump |
| Gold | 2007 Birmingham | Long jump |
| Silver | 2002 Vienna | Pentathlon |
| Silver | 2011 Paris | Long jump |
| European Championships | ||
| Silver | 2006 Gothenburg | Long jump |
| Silver | 2010 Barcelona | Long jump |
| Universiade | ||
| Silver | 2005 Izmir | Long jump |
Enezaide[1] do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, (born 20 November 1979) is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She represents Sporting Clube de Portugal.
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Career
Naide Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth country São Tomé and Príncipe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11 years old. At the Sydney Olympics, Gomes was the São-Tomé flag carrier in the opening ceremony. Before changing nationality she set the current São Tomé and Príncipe records in 100 metres hurdles, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put, javelin throw and heptathlon.[2]
She gained Portuguese citizenship in 2001,[3] and has since represented Portugal at major international events.
Gomes has recently won gold medals for long jump at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, raising the national record to 6.89 m at the latter.
In Madrid, she became the first Portuguese athlete ever to reach the seven metres distance in the long jump, by jumping 7.01m. In Valencia she won gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2008, by jumping 7.00m.
On 22 July, Naide Gomes was the winner of the IAAF Super Grand Prix DN Galan, Stockholm, Sweden, with a new national record of 7.04 m.
On 29 July, at the IAAF Super Grand Prix Herculis, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, she jumped 7.12 m, a new national record and 2008 world's best mark.
On 19 August, at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China, a top-favorite for the gold medal, in peak physical condition and having dominated the season, Gomes unexpectedly fouled on her first two attempts and then stutter-stepped on her final try jumping a mere 6.29 m, thus failing to qualify to the final.
She won the long jump gold medal at the 2009 Lusophony Games with a jump of 6.74 m.[4]
Achievements
Notes and references
- IAAF profile for Naide Gomes
- ^ Enezaide and not Enezenaide as it often appears published. See decree granting Portuguese citizenship to Ms Gomes.
- ^ São Tomé and Príncipe athletics records
- ^ The decree granting Portuguese citizenship to Ms Gomes was signed on 4 May 2001 published in the Portuguese official gazette (Diário da República) on 22 May 2001. See here, page 8600, second column.
- ^ Fernandes, António Manuel (2009-07-14). Évora, another title in Lisbon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
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Preceded by Lyudmila Kolchanova |
Women's Long Jump Best Year Year Performance 2008 |
Succeeded by Brittney Reese |
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