Vicente de Lima
Vicente de Lima ( Lenilson Vicente de Lima, born June 4, 1977 in Currais Novos ) is a Brazilian sprinter who specializes in the 100 - meter race and his greatest success with the Brazilian 4 x 100 - meter relay celebrated.
He participated in the World Athletics Championships in 1999 partly in Seville and reached the 100 -meter run the quarter-finals. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, he retired about the same distance from already in the first round. Much more successful he was there, however, in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. Together with Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva and da Silva Claudinei he won in 37.90 s behind the U.S. relay team silver medal.
At the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo in 2003, the Brazilian squadron triumphed in the same preparation as in Sydney with a time of 38.44 s before the team from Trinidad and Tobago, however, benefited from a disqualification of the U.S. season. Only a short time later brought the season, this time with Cláudio Roberto Souza for Claudinei da Silva, at the World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis the silver medal with a time of 38.02 s As in Sydney was the only squadron of the United States faster.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens de Lima reached the semi-finals in the 100 -meter run. With the season he finished this time only the eighth. In 2004 he was in Huelva Ibero -American champion over 100 m. In 2005 he won at the South Championships in Cali over the same distance the silver medal. In 2006 he was. At the World Indoor Championships in Moscow seventh in the 60 - meter dash and defended at the Ibero- American Championships in Ponce his title in the 100 -meter run
At the Pan American Games in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro de Lima won in the relay back the gold medal. Together with Rafael Ribeiro, Basilio Morais Junior, Sandro Viana he directed the teams from Canada and the United States in 38.81 s on the courts. The same Brazilian squadron missed a short time later at the World Championships in Osaka with fourth place just a medal. There, de Lima also launched in the 100 - meter race, but retired in the quarterfinal round.
In 2008 he occupied at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia on 60 m the fifth. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, he was over 100 m to the quarter- finals and was the season fourth. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, he finished the season in seventh place.
He was also six times Brazilian national champion, four times more than 100 m ( 2000, 2002, 2004-2005) and twice in the 200 -meter run (2002, 2005).
Vicente de Lima has a competition weight of 58 kg at a height of 1.69 m.