Naide Gomes

Naide Gomes (full name Enezenaide do Rosario da Vera Cruz Gomes, born November 10, 1979 in São Tomé and Príncipe ) is a Portuguese athlete.

For São Tomé and Príncipe in 1999 she took part in the Africa Games and was fifth in the heptathlon. At the Olympic Games in 2000, it launched in the run over 100 meters.

In 2001 Naide Gomes citizenship and was Portuguese. At the European Indoor Championships in 2002 she won her first medal for Portugal when she finished second in the pentathlon. Gold won the Russian Yelena Prokhorova and bronze won Sweden's Carolina Kluft. At the European Championships 2002 Naide Gomes tenth in the long jump and Eighteenth heptathlon.

At the World Indoor Championships 2003, she finished fifth in the pentathlon. A year later, she won the World Indoor Championships in 2004 with a personal best of 4794 points. In the 2004 Olympics she won the heptathlon with 6151 points, 13th place

In Madrid at the European Indoor Championships 2005 Naide Gomes won gold in the long jump with 6.70 meters. However, it took some time until their victory was official. In the last experiment, the width measurement showed a jump of the German Bianca Kappler of a width 6.96 m. This width measurement was obviously not correct, on the other hand was not a hand measurement is performed so that Kappler, which was four courses and five inches behind the bronze medal at this time, an attempt was less recognized than the other athletes. A day later the Solomonic verdict was: Kappler receives an additional bronze medal, which the other income remains unaffected. This Naide Gomes could receive her gold medal.

At the World Championships in 2005 Gomes came on in the heptathlon, finishing with 6189 points in seventh place after she had previously with 6230 points, achieved three weeks in Spain Logrono a personal best.

2006 Naide Gomes occurred mainly as a long jumper. She won with 6.76 m bronze at the World Indoor Championships. At the European Championships, she won with 6.84 m silver behind the Russian Lyudmila Koltschanowa who jumped 6.93 m.

At the European Indoor Championships 2007 in Birmingham Naide Gomes won the long jump with a new Portuguese national record of 6.89 m. On 21 July 2007, she jumped in Madrid with 7.01 m for the first time over the seven- meter mark. So it was one of the favorites for the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. There it lay until the last passage with 6.87 m in second place behind Tatyana Lebedeva. In the last passage it was surpassed by Lyudmila Koltschanowa and Tatyana Kotova, Gomes was fourth.

At the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Valencia, she won the long jump with 7.00 meters. At the Super Grand Prix meeting in Stockholm on July 22, 2008, she improved her national record -low 7.04 m. This they increased on 29 July in Monte Carlo to 7.12 m. At the Olympic Games in 2008, she could not qualify for the finals in the long jump.

In Berlin at the World Championships in 2009 she missed with 6.77 m in fourth in the long jump bronze medal by three centimeters. After two years, Gomes won at the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010 a medal again, with 6.67 m, it was three inches behind the winner, Brittney Reese. Even scarcer defeat fell out in Barcelona at the European Championships 2010. As the Latvian European Champion Ineta Radevica Gomes jumped to 6.92 m, about gold and silver decided the better second-best jump and the Radevica had jumped 6.87 m compared to 6.68 m by Gomes.

At a height of 1.81 m her competition weight is 70 kg.