Naide Gomes

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Medal record
Women's Athletics
World Indoor Championships
Gold	2004 Budapest	Pentathlon
Gold	2008 Valencia	Long jump
Bronze	2006 Moscow	Long jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold	2005 Madrid	Long jump
Gold	2007 Birmingham	Long jump
Silver	2002 Vienna	Pentathlon
European Championships
Silver	2006 Gothenburg	Long jump
Universiade
Silver	2005 Izmir	Long jump

Enezaide^[1] do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, (born November 20, 1979) is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She represents Sporting Clube de Portugal.

Naide Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth country São Tomé and Príncipe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11 eleven years old. At the Sydney Olympics, Gomes was the São-Tomé flag carrier in the opening ceremony. Before changing nationality she set the current São Tomé and Príncipe records in 100 metres hurdles, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put, javelin throw and heptathlon.^[2]

She gained Portuguese citizenship in 2001^[3], and has since represented Portugal at major international events.

She has recently won gold medals for long jump at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, raising the national record to 6.89 m at the latter.

In 2007, in Madrid, she became the first Portuguese athlete ever to reach the seven metres distance in the long jump, by jumping 7.01m.

[edit] Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Event
1999	All-Africa Games	Johannesburg, South Africa	5th	Heptathlon
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	2nd	Pentathlon
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	10th	Long jump
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, England	5th	Pentathlon
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	Pentathlon
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	1st	Long jump
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	5th	Long jump
	Universiade	İzmir, Turkey	2nd	Long jump
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	Long jump, 6.76 NRi
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	2nd	Long jump
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, England	1st	Long jump, 6.89 NRi
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	1st	Long jump, 7.00 NRi

[edit] Notes and references

• IAAF profile for Naide Gomes

1. ^ Enezaide and not Enezenaide as it often appears published. See decree granting Portuguese citizenship to Ms Gomes.
2. ^ São Tomé and Príncipe athletics records
3. ^ The decree granting Portuguese citizenship to Ms Gomes was signed on 4 May 2001 published in the Portuguese officil gazette (Diário da República) on 22 May 2001. See here, page 8600, second column.

[edit] See also

• List of eligibility transfers in athletics