Lucimar de Moura
Lucimar de Moura on 27 June 2005 when Josef Odložil Memorial in Prague.
Lucimar Aparecida de Moura ( born March 22, 1974 in Timóteo ) is a Brazilian athlete. In the 2000s it was the dominant Kurzstreckensprinterin South America. During her time as a junior, she joined also in the long jump and pentathlon, before later specialized in the sprint.
Sporting career
De Moura's achievements extend over nearly two decades; especially in the South American Championships she won many gold medals. In 2007, she managed before a home crowd in Sao Paulo for the first time, at the tournaments kontinantalen the Gold Triple - secure - Victories over both 100 and 200 meters and the 4 x 100 - meter relay.
At the global level, she joined in 1992 for the first time in appearance, when she participated in the 100 meters at the Junior World Championships in Seoul, but there in the second round ( = intermediate runs / quarterfinals ) was eliminated. Meanwhile, de Moura has competed in the course of their sports career to five Senior World Championships. At her debut in 1997 in Athens, she reached over 100 meters the second round, left with the squadron but from in the flow - the quartet presented here with 43.89 seconds a new Brazilian national record on. In 1999 in Seville, she ran both 100 and 200 meters to the quarterfinals. It was not until six years later she started again at the global championships and reached 2005 in Helsinki over both sprint distances the semi-finals. Even more successful, she was a member of the season, which came to the finals and finished fifth there. In the Japanese Osaka she came in 2007 in the 100 - meter race does not go beyond the second round; the squadron had already failed in the heats. Although the latter could repeat their placing at the 2005 World Championships in Berlin in 2009; in the individual competition different de Moura but as two years before in the intermediate run out. She represented her country in addition Olympics in previously two Summer Games. Athens 2004 she left about 200 meters in the second round and with the relay in the flow. Four years later in Beijing, she went to over 100 meters and did not come again on the intermediate runs out. Much more successful ran the relay race. The quartet reached the finals and missed fourth- placed the bronze medal by only one tenth of a second.