Cátia Azevedo
Cátia Azevedo 
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| Full name | Cátia Isabel da Silva Azevedo |
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| birthday | 9th March 1994 (age 26) |
| place of birth | Oliveira de Azeméis , Portugal |
| size | 170 cm |
| Weight | 53 kg |
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| discipline | 400 meter run |
| Best performance | 51.62 s 
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| society | Sporting Lisbon |
| status | active |
| last change: October 27, 2019 | |
Cátia Isabel da Silva Azevedo (born March 9, 1994 in Oliveira de Azeméis ) is a Portuguese athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run.
Athletic career
For the first time at an international championship, Cátia Azevedo competed at the Junior European Championships 2013 in Rieti , where she came in fifth. In 2014 she qualified for the European Championships in Zurich , where she was eliminated in the individual competition and with the Portuguese 4 x 400 meter relay in the preliminary round. In 2015 she took part in the U23 European Championships in Tallinn and was eliminated there in the preliminary stages. In 2016 she reached the semifinals of the European Championships in Amsterdam over 400 meters and was eliminated from the relay in the preliminary round. She also took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated in the preliminary round. In 2017 she qualified for the World Championships in London , but also dropped out there in the preliminary stages . A few weeks later, she took part in the World Student Games in Taipei , where she finished fifth.
In 2018 she qualified for the Indoor World Championships in Birmingham , where she was eliminated in the first round in the individual competition with 54.17 seconds and the relay with 3: 35.43 minutes. At the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona , she finished fifth over 400 meters in 52.63 seconds and also with the Portuguese relay in 3: 34.21 minutes. In August she reached the European Championships in Berlin , up to the semi-finals, in which she was eliminated with 52.23 s. Even with the season she could not qualify for the final in 3: 33.35 min. Then she won the Ibero-American Championships in Trujillo in 52.26 s in the individual competition and in 3: 36.49 min with the relay. At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 2019 , the end followed in 53.43 s. At the European Games in Minsk she finished fourth in the mixed relay in 3: 19.63 minutes and at the Summer Universiade in Naples she was fifth in 52.07 seconds. Before that, she improved her own national record in the semifinals by a hundredth of a second to 51.62 s and thus qualified for the World Championships in Doha , where she was eliminated with 52.79 s in the lead .
From 2016 to 2019 Azevedo was Portuguese champion in the 400-meter run outdoors and in 2015, 2017 and 2019 also indoors. She also secured the title in the 200 meters in the hall in 2015 and in the 800 meter run in 2018 and 2019 .
Personal bests
- 200 meters: 23.84 s (0.0 m / s), July 13, 2014 in Braga
- 200 meters (hall): 24.44 s, February 22, 2015 in Pombal
- 400 meters: 51.62 s, July 9, 2019 in Naples ( Portuguese record )
- 400 meters (hall): 53.13 s, February 17, 2018 in Pombal
- 800 meters: 2: 06.11 min, May 13, 2017 in Faro
- 800 meters (hall): 2: 05.96 min, February 10, 2019 in Pombal
Web links
- Cátia Azevedo in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Cátia Azevedo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Azevedo, Cátia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | da Silva Azevedo, Cátia Isabel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese sprinter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oliveira de Azeméis |