Franciela Krasucki

Franciela Krasucki
Full name	Franciela das Graças Krasucki
nation	Brazil
birthday	26th April 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Valinhos , Brazil
size	168 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m
Best performance	11.13 s 22.76 s
status	active
Medal table
Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 × South American Games 1 × 0 × 1 × South American Championships 2 × 2 × 0 × U18 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Pan American Games gold Guadalajara 2011 4 × 100 m South American Games gold Medellín 2010 4 × 100 m bronze Santiago 2014 100 m South American Championships silver Buenos Aires 2011 4 × 100 m gold Cartagena 2013 4 × 100 m silver Cartagena 2013 100 m gold Asunción 2017 4 × 100 m  Youth World Championships bronze Marrakech 2005 Sprint relay
last change: April 2, 2018

Franciela das Graças Krasucki (born April 26, 1988 in Valinhos ) is a Brazilian sprinter who is particularly successful with the Brazilian 4 x 100 meter relay.

Athletic career

Franciela Krasucki gained her first international experience at the South American Youth Championships in Asunción in 2002 , where she finished fifth over 200 meters. In 2003 she won the bronze medals over 100 meters at the Junior South American Championships in Guayaquil and won the Brazilian 4 x 100 meter relay and took sixth place over 200 meters. Then she finished fourth over 100 meters at the World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada . At the Pan American Junior Championships in Bridgetown , she finished seventh over 100 meters and fourth with the Brazilian relay. In 2004 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Grosseto , where she reached the semi-finals over 100 and 200 meters. In autumn, she won four gold medals in the short sprint disciplines as well as with the sprint relay (1000 meters) at the South American Youth Championships in Guayaquil.

In 2005 Krasucki won the youth world championships with the Brazilian sprint relay and again finished fourth over 100 meters. At the Junior South American Championships in Rosario , she won gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters, as well as with the 4 x 100 meter relay. In 2006, she also won the Ibero-American Championships in Ponce over 100 meters and with the relay and qualified again for the Junior World Championships in Beijing , where she finished seventh over 100 meters and eliminated over 200 meters in the semifinals. In addition, she took fourth place in the 4 x 100 meter relay in the final. At the end of the season she took part in the Jogos da Lusofonia in Macau , which was held for the first time , where she won the silver medals in the 100 and 200 meters and won the Brazilian relay. In 2007 she won the silver medal with the relay at the Pan American Junior Championships in São Paulo and was eliminated over 200 meters in the preliminary round.

In 2008 she took part with the Brazilian team as a guest at the Central America and Caribbean Championships in Cali and took third place there. At the U23 South American Championships in Lima , she also won the relay. Two years later she took part in the U23 South American Championships, which also represented the South American Games , in Medellín , where she won the gold medal with the relay and finished sixth over 100 meters. In 2011 she won the silver medal with the Brazilian 4 x 100 meter relay at the South American Championships in Buenos Aires and qualified for the World Championships in Daegu , South Korea , where she finished seventh in the final. Before that she won the gold medal with the relay at the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished sixth in the individual competition. Then she won the relay at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara .

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , she set a South American record with the Brazilian 4 x 100 meter relay in the lead with 42.55 s and took seventh place in the final with 42.91 s. In 2013 she won silver over 100 meters and gold with the Brazilian relay at the South American Championships in Cartagena . At the World Championships in Moscow she reached the semifinals over 100 meters and was eliminated over 200 meters in the preliminary run; in the final of the 4 x 100 meter relay, she did not reach the goal with the Brazilian quartet. In 2014 she qualified for the first time over 60 meters for the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland , where she was eliminated in the semi-finals. At the South American Games in Santiago de Chile , she won the bronze medal over 100 meters. This was followed by winning the gold medals over 200 meters and with the Brazilian relay as well as the bronze medal over 100 meters at the Ibero-American Championships in São Paulo.

In 2015 she took part again with the relay at the World Championships in Beijing, but could not qualify for the final there with 43.15 s . 2016 they occupied at the Ibero-American Championships in Rio de Janeiro in seventh place in the 100 meters and qualified in this discipline for the Olympics very place where it s but with 11.67 to advance to retire. With the Brazilian 4 x 100 meter relay, she was also disqualified in the run-up to blocking another runner. In 2017 she won again with the Brazilian relay at the South American Championships in Luque and finished seventh at the World Championships in London with 42.63 s in the final .

In 2013 and 2017, Krasucki was Brazilian champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay of her club and in 2013 she was champion in the 200 meter run.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 11.13 s (−0.7 m / s), June 6, 2013 in São Paulo
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.19 s, February 16, 2014 in São Caetano do Sul
• 200 meters: 22.76 s, June 9, 2013 in São Paulo

Web links

• Franciela krasucki in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Franciela Krasucki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )