Fatima Silva

Fatima Silva ( born May 6, 1970) is a former Portuguese long- distance runner who specialized in the marathon distance.

Career

First, Silva was also successful in the medium range. 1996 and 1997 she was Portuguese Hall champion in 1500 -meter run, 1996 and 1998 in the 3000 -meter run. Soon, however, she switched to the longer distances. From 1999 to 2008 Silva won every year except 2003, the Portuguese championships in the marathon, each of which was held within the framework of the Lisbon Marathon. Five times they cashed the Appreciation of the marathon.

In international championships Silva could not achieve comparable results. In the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Seville in 1999 it ranked 31 in the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 and 19th place at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris 50th spot Front placements could, however, recorded in some city marathons. In addition to its successes in Lisbon it was the Hamburg Marathon 2002 in a personal best of 2:32:01 hours parties and the following year there just eighth. They also reached at the Valencia Marathon 2004 took second place and won the 2005 Porto Marathon.