Gabriel Constantino

Gabriel Constantino
Full name	Gabriel Oliveira Constantino
nation	Brazil
birthday	9th February 1995 (age 25)
size	183 cm
Weight	80 kg
job	college student
Career
discipline	110 meter hurdles
Best performance	13.18 s
status	active
Medal table
South American Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor South American Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 South American Championships 2 × 0 × 1 × U18 South American Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
South American Championships gold Lima 2019 110 m hurdles silver Lima 2019 4 × 100 m Indoor South American Championships gold Cochabamba 2020 60 m hurdles  Universiade gold Naples 2019 110 m hurdles U23 South American Championships gold Lima 2016 110 m hurdles gold Lima 2016 4 × 100 m bronze Lima 2016 200 m Youth South American Championships gold Mendoza 2012 Long jump
last change: April 10, 2020

Gabriel Oliveira Constantino (born February 9, 1995 ) is a Brazilian hurdler who has specialized in the 110-meter distance , but at the beginning of his career also competed in other disciplines.

Athletic career

Gabriel Constantino gained his first experience at international championships in 2012 at the Youth South American Championships in Mendoza , where he won the gold medal in the long jump with 7.35 m. Two years later he retired from the Junior World Championships in Eugene in the 200-meter run with 21.37 s in the first round and reached the semi-finals over 110 m hurdles, in which he was eliminated with 13.93 s. In 2016, he won the U23 South American Championships in Lima in 14.10 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles and in 39.86 seconds in the Brazilian 4 x 100 meter relay. He also secured the bronze medal over 200 meters in 21.42 s. He then finished fifth in the Ibero-American Championships in Rio de Janeiro in 13.87 s. In the following year he took part in the Summer Universiade in Taipei for the first time, where he reached the finals in the hurdles sprint, but was disqualified there. In addition, he retired in the 100-meter run with 10.74 s in the quarterfinals and retired with the relay with 39.80 s in the lead. At the World Indoor Athletics Championships 2018 in Birmingham , he finished sixth in the 60-meter hurdles in 7.71 s before setting a new South American record in the 110-meter hurdles on June 19 in Montreuil with 13.23 s replaced the previous record holder Paulo Villar from Colombia. He then won the Ibero-American Championships in Trujillo in 13.61 s in the hurdle sprint and in 38.78 s in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2019 he won the South American Championships in Lima in hurdles in 13.54 s and secured the silver medal behind the team from Venezuela in 39.91 s with the relay. He then improved the South American record to 13.18 s and won the Student World Games in Naples in 13.22 s and reached seventh place with the season. In August he first took part in the Pan American Games in Lima, but was disqualified there in the final. This was followed by participation in the World Championships in Doha , but he was also disqualified there in the preliminary stages. The following year he won the first-ever indoor South American championships in Cochabamba in the 60-meter hurdles in 7.78 s.

From 2018 Constantino was Brazilian champion in the 110-meter hurdles and in the 4-by-100 and 4-by-400-meter relay.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.28 s (+0.6 m / s), July 8, 2018 in Bragança Paulista
• 200 meters: 20.21 s (+0.9 m / s), April 28, 2019 in Bragança Paulista
• 110 m hurdles: 13.18 s (+0.8 m / s), July 9, 2019 in Székesfehérvár ( South American record )
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.60 s, January 17, 2018 in São Caetano do Sul ( South American record )

Web links

• Gabriel Constantino in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diego Sampaolo: Constantino's hurdles victory highlights day five at World University Games ( English ) IAAF. July 13, 2019. Accessed April 10, 2020.