Aída dos Santos

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Aída Menezes dos Santos (born March 1, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a former Brazilian athlete who was successful in high jump and pentathlon . In 1969 and 1971 she won the first two all-around competitions for women at the South American Championships .

Career

At the South American Championships in 1961 dos Santos won the high jump with a height of 1.60 meters. Two years later she won two silver medals at the South American Championships in Cali in 1963 : At 1.58 meters, she was defeated by her compatriot Maria da Conceição in the high jump at the same height , in the javelin she reached 38.29 meters, but was well behind the Chilean Marlene Ahrens . At the Pan American Games in São Paulo , she was fifth in the high jump.

Dos Santos showed her greatest competition in the high jump in the final of the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She managed the highest jump of her career with 1.74 meters, but in fourth place she was four centimeters behind third-placed Taissija Tschentschik from the Soviet Union.

The high jump final at the South American Championships in Rio de Janeiro in 1965 saw three Brazilians ahead, with 1.69 meters Maria da Conceição won ahead of dos Santos with 1.66 meters and Irenice Rodrigues with 1.51 meters. At the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1967 dos Santos won the bronze medal in the pentathlon and was again fifth in the high jump. Two months later, the South American Championships 1967 took place in Buenos Aires , in which the pentathlon was not yet on the program; dos Santos won her third silver medal behind Maria da Conceição in the high jump with 1.60 meters.

At the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 dos Santos only took part in the pentathlon and, despite her personal best of 4578 points, she only finished 20th. The South American Championships in 1969 in Quito were held like the Olympics last year at high altitude. Dos Santos received silver for the fourth time behind Maria da Conceição for 1.60 meters in the high jump. In the first ever pentathlon she won by almost two hundred points. In 1971 she was able to repeat both her bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Cali and her victory at the South American Championships in Lima in the pentathlon .

Aída dos Santos is 1.73 m tall and weighed 68 kg at competition times.

Private

Dos Santos is the mother of Olympic volleyball champion Valeska dos Santos Menezes .

literature

  • Winfried Kramer: South American Track & Field Championships 1919–1995. Neunkirchen 1996

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