Naide Gomes

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Naide Gomes

Medal record
Women's athletics
Competitor for  Portugal
World Indoor Championships
Gold 2004 Budapest Pentathlon
Gold 2008 Valencia Long jump
Silver 2010 Doha Long jump
Bronze 2006 Moscow Long jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold 2005 Madrid Long jump
Gold 2007 Birmingham Long jump
Silver 2002 Vienna Pentathlon
Silver 2011 Paris Long jump
European Championships
Silver 2006 Gothenburg Long jump
Silver 2010 Barcelona Long jump
Universiade
Silver 2005 Izmir Long jump

Enezaide[1] do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, (born 20 November 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.

Biography

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 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.

Gomes has won gold medal for long jump at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, raising the national record to 6.89 m.

In Madrid, she became the first Portuguese athlete ever to reach the seven metres distance in the long jump, by jumping 7.01m. In Valencia she won gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2008, by jumping 7.00m.

On 22 July, Naide Gomes was the winner of the IAAF Super Grand Prix DN Galan, Stockholm, Sweden, with a new national record of 7.04 m.

On 29 July, at the IAAF Super Grand Prix Herculis, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, she jumped 7.12 m, a new national record and 2008 world's best mark.

On 19 August, at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China, a top-favorite for the gold medal, in peak physical condition and having dominated the season, Gomes unexpectedly fouled on her first two attempts and then stutter-stepped on her final try jumping a mere 6.29 m, thus failing to qualify to the final.

She won the long jump gold medal at the 2009 Lusophony Games with a jump of 6.74 m.[4]

Achievements

Representing  São Tomé and Príncipe
1999 All-Africa Games Johannesburg, South Africa 5th Heptathlon
Representing  Portugal
2002 European Indoor Championships Vienna, Austria 2nd Pentathlon
European Championships Munich, Germany 10th Long jump
2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, England 5th Pentathlon
Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria 4th Heptathlon
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
2008 6th World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 1st Long jump, 6.71
2009 Lusophony Games Lisbon, Portugal 1st Long jump, 6.74
2009 1st European Team Championships Leiria, Portugal 1st Long jump, 6.83
2009 London Grand Prix London, UK 1st Long jump, 6.99
2010 World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 2nd Long jump
2011 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 2nd Long jump, 6.79
2011 World Championships Daegu, Korea 10ª Long Jump 6.26

Notes and references

  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 official gazette (Diário da República) on 22 May 2001. See here, page 8600, second column.
  4. ↑ Fernandes, António Manuel (2009-07-14). Évora, another title in Lisbon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.


Sporting positions
Preceded by
Russia Lyudmila Kolchanova		 Women's Long Jump Best Year Year Performance
2008 		Succeeded by
United States Brittney Reese

See also

European Indoor Champions in Women's long jump
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