Conceição Geremias

Conceição Aparecida Geremias ( born July 23, 1956 in Campinas ) is a former Brazilian athlete who had achieved their greatest success at the Pan American Games in 1983 as winner of the Seven campaign. In the 21 years from 1974 to 1995 Conceição Geremias won championships in South America 26 medals, including 14 gold medals, in eleven different disciplines, including all four jumping events.

Career

At the age of 17 years Conceição Geremias won at the 1974 South American Championships three gold medals in the 100 -meter run and in two seasons, as well as one silver medal and one bronze medal. The following year, she appeared only in the pentathlon and won safe from her compatriot Themis Zambrzycki. 1977 Geremias defended her title with seven points ahead of Zambrzycki, 1979, she defeated her rival. At the 1980 Olympic Games she won the pentathlon on the 14th place and was therefore the best Nichteuropäerin.

In the South America Championship 1981 in La Paz, the pentathlon was replaced by the heptathlon, but Geremias did not occur here. She won gold medals in the 400 - meter hurdles, long jump and the sprint relay. So she was the first South American champion in the 400 meter hurdles. Two years later she won the first Heptathlon at Pan American Games, as they with 6084 points and 16 points ahead of the US-American Cindy Greiner won in Caracas, who remained 6084 points Geremias ' best performance and comply with 6017 points after today's point standings. A month later she defended her title at the South Championships in the 400 - meter hurdles and also won the heptathlon. At the Olympic Games in 1984 Geremias retired in the long jump qualification and gave up in the heptathlon.

In 1985, she did not join the South American championships in the heptathlon, but won her second title in the long jump. 1987 and 1989 she won the heptathlon, respectively, between them they achieved at the 1988 Olympic Games place 22 in this discipline. 1991 and 1993 she won the South American Championships in each case after the Colombian Zorobabelia Córdoba silver in the heptathlon. In 1993 she also received the bronze medal at the first-time host of the three- jump. In 1995, she again won a medal in an inaugural discipline: silver in the pole vault.

At a height of 1.72 m her competition weight was 64 kg.

Medals

Pan American Championships

South America Championships

  • Pentathlon: Gold
  • 4 x 100 - meter relay: Bronze
  • Long Jump: Bronze
  • Pentathlon: Gold
  • 4 x 400 - meter relay: Gold
  • Long Jump: Silver
  • Pentathlon: Silver
  • 400 - meter hurdles: Gold
  • 4 x 100 - meter relay: Gold
  • Long Jump: Gold
  • 400 - meter hurdles: Gold
  • High Jump: Silver
  • Heptathlon: Gold
  • High Jump: Bronze
  • Long Jump: Gold
  • Heptathlon: Gold
  • Heptathlon: Gold
  • Heptathlon: Silver
  • Triple Jump: Bronze
  • Heptathlon: Silver
  • Pole Vault: Silver

Bests

  • Long Jump: 6.49 m ( 1984)
  • Heptathlon: 6017 points (1983 )
4 × 100 metres relay Lucimar de Moura
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